White House intruder to face charges in court

The man who jumped the fence at the White House and entering the building in a major security breach was scheduled to appear in court on Monday amid reports that U.S. ascendant entities are considering ways to increment the security buffer circumventing the presidential compound.
 Omar Gonzalez, 42, who scaled the barrier Friday evening while carrying a knife, is expected in U.S. District Court in Washington at 1:45 p.m. (1745 GMT), according to court spokesman Sheldon Snook.

He faces charges of unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a "pernicious or perilous weapon" and, if convicted, faces up to 10 years in confinement.

Albeit President Barack Obama and his family were not at the White House at the time, the incident has shaken confidence in the ability of the U.S. Secret Service to bulwark the president.

The agency, already beset by a string of other recent disconcerting security lapses, is considering ways to expand the security zone around the White House to keep tourists and other members of the public farther away, media reports verbally expressed.

One possible measure includes blocking the sidewalks around the White House or screening tourists afore sanctioning them to utilize the walkways. Additionally, visitors to the involute, now screened at the ingression gates, could instead be screened blocks away, the New York Times and the Washington Post reported.

Representatives for the Secret Service did not respond to a request for comment on Monday but the agency, which stepped up security at the White House following Friday's incident, verbalized earlier it is reviewing its replication.

On Friday evening, shortly after Obama and his daughters had departed for Camp David, Gonzalez allegedly climbed the White House fence and was able to cross the lawn and enter the mansion through the north doors.

After being apprehended, Gonzalez, a retired Army sergeant who accommodated in Iraq, told a Secret Service agent that "he was concerned that the atmosphere was collapsing and (he) needed to get the information to the president of the United States so that he could get the word out to the people," according to an affidavit relinquished by prosecutors.

While fence jumpers are marginally mundane at the White House, Friday's incident was particularly concerning because the intruder was able to penetrate the authentic building. Critics have verbalized they are appalled by the lapse, verbally expressing it could give confidence to other potentially more pernicious assailers.

It is additionally the latest in series of lapses by the president's security detail.

Just last month, a toddler was able to constrict through the White House gates.

The Secret Service withal has faced scrutiny after some a prostitution scandal in 2012 and a 2009 breach involving an uninvited couple at a White House state dinner, albeit a 2013 Department of Homeland Security report found no evidence of malfeasance or infelicitous comportment at the Secret Service.