US / White House security White House Plans to Add Spikes to Fence CBS says 'anti-climb' measure expected to be approved By John Johnson, Newser Staff Posted Apr 17, 2015 12:02 PM CDT Copied In this 2014 file photo, a member of the Secret Service on K-9 patrol walks along the perimeter fence outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) The White House is expected to look a smidge less welcoming in the near future—CBS News reports that the Secret Service plans to put spikes atop its fence. The "pencil point" protrusions would theoretically deter fence-climbers—like so and so—and the idea is expected to be approved by the the National Capital Planning Commission next month. The spiked fence would be temporary until longer-term improvements—still unspecified—are in place. (Of course, the spikes wouldn't keep the determined from squeezing through the fence.) Report an error