Via The Blaze:
An armed felon was allowed to get “within arm’s reach” of President Barack Obama on an elevator in Atlanta early this month, a serious breach of Secret Service protocols, according to sources familiar with the incident.
Obama was visiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address the severe Ebola outbreak when the man, a security contractor, reportedly started video recording the president with a cellphone. When Secret Service agents told him to stop recording, he refused.
It was only then that Secret Service questioned the man and ran a “database check,” uncovering his criminal history, the Washington Post reports. The man reportedly has three past convictions for assault and battery.