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   Robert Pickett: Firing Shots on GW Bush   
      
   The following article on Robert Pickett is an excerpt from Mel   
   Ayton’s Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination   
   Attempts—From FDR to Obama. It is available for order now from   
   Amazon and Barnes & Noble.   
      
   George W. Bush was subjected to several very serious threats to   
   his life. Robert Pickett was an accountant with the Internal   
   Revenue Service who had been fired from his job in 1988 because   
   of incompetence and poor work attendance. But Pickett believed   
   he was dismissed because he reported a colleague who had been   
   “violating regulations.” He spent years trying to get reinstated   
   to his job. On February 7, 2001, two weeks after the first   
   inauguration of President Bush, Pickett, still simmering over   
   the firing, visited the White House armed with a five-shot   
   Taurus .38 caliber special revolver.   
      
   Pickett fired some errant shots in the general direction of the   
   executive mansion. A nearby police patrol car immediately pulled   
   up, and an officer engaged Pickett. A standoff ensued, with   
   Pickett alternately threatening to shoot himself and others.   
   After ten minutes, Pickett was shot in the knee by a Secret   
   Service agent and taken to the hospital. President Bush, who was   
   exercising in the residence area of the White House at the time,   
   was never in danger.   
      
   Pickett was originally charged with discharging a firearm during   
   a crime, which, if he had been found guilty, would have brought   
   a ten-year mandatory sentence. But Pickett made a plea agreement   
   and entered a guilty plea to a local firearms violation and an   
   “Alford plea” (acknowledging there was enough evidence to   
   convict him but not admitting he was entirely guilty) to   
   assaulting a federal officer. In July 2001, Pickett was   
   sentenced to three years at the Federal Medical Center in   
   Rochester, followed by three years of probation. He was released   
   on September 19, 2003.   
      
   https://www.historyonthenet.com/robert-pickett/   
             
      
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