WASHINGTON – It may not have ignited the kind of firestorm that followed revelations of Secret Service agents consorting with prostitutes before then-President Barack Obama’s trip to Cartagena, Colombia, in 2012.

Nor does it quite rank with the stunning breach of security two years later when an emotionally troubled Army veteran scaled a White House perimeter fence and burst through the mansion’s North Portico doors before being tackled in the ceremonial East Room.