White House Goes On ‘Lockdown’ Over Security Incident: Report
The Secret Service locked down the White House front lawn on Tuesday and quickly escorted members of the press to the briefing room following a reported security incident, according to multiple sources.
The Times of India and others eventually reported that a “phone” had been tossed over the fence along the front lawn.
The Secret Service quickly called a lockdown of the park and White House and closed off Pennsylvania Avenue.
Reporters gathered outside were hurried into the briefing room without explanation. About 30 minutes later, the Secret Service issued an all-clear, allowing press members to return to the North Lawn.
“Somebody threw their phone over the fence,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. She did not provide any further details.
The incident occurred just a few days after the one-year anniversary of the first assassination attempt against now-President Donald Trump. A bullet grazed his right ear during a rally in Butler, Pa., while other shots killed one man seated behind him and wounded two others. The would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper team.
Meanwhile, the FBI has discreetly initiated a significant investigation into what sources describe as a decade-long Democratic and deep-state operation, spanning from Russia collusion to Jack Smith.
The probe could potentially pave the way for a special prosecutor to intervene and uncover a potential coordinated criminal conspiracy aimed at disrupting three U.S. elections and harming Trump, as well as hamper him with scandal after he won his first term.
Internally referred to as a “grand conspiracy,” the FBI opened the case several weeks ago following the appointment of new Director Kash Patel.
Sources said to Just the News that the probe could accelerate if Trump declassifies two critical sets of evidence tied to the summer of 2016, which some insiders believe could be the spark that ignited the entire operation.
One of those documents is a classified annex from the long-buried inspector general’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Senator Chuck Grassley has requested the annex, believed to reveal the FBI’s deliberate disregard for credible evidence of potential criminal conduct.
Special Counsel John Durham buried the other document in the classified appendix of his final report on Russiagate. Durham flagged it as “Clinton plan intelligence”—evidence that the CIA was aware the Clinton campaign was working to invent a Trump-Russia collusion narrative before the FBI even launched the Crossfire Hurricane probe. That probe relied heavily on discredited material generated by Clinton allies.
