33 of the Day

WaPo:

A security contractor with a gun and three prior convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident.

Three and three. This is the new theme for presenting 33.

Also, other stories coming out now about the poor Secret Service protection for Obama. Hard to know what it means exactly.

This story has some interesting 3's:

President Obama has faced three times as many threats as his predecessors, according to people briefed on the Secret Service’s threat assessment.

and

Ortega had left his Idaho home about three weeks earlier, during a time his friends said he had been acting increasingly paranoid. He kept launching into tirades about the U.S. government trying to control its citizens, saying President Obama “had to be stopped.”

and

Three women walking nearby heard the crash, and one called 911 on a cellphone.

Possibilities:
1)  the SS is simply incompetent and Obama has been lucky not to have lost his life
2) the SS has been messing up his security as a means to threaten Obama and extort him to do the wishes of the PTB
3) the SS/PTB is releasing these stories just now and trying to threaten Obama for future actions in his next two years.
4) this is a psy-op for some unclear reason, possibly to make people sympathetic to Obama.

My main guess is #2.