It’s a lie.

Just like the head of the IRS these people were given marching orders from the Obama regime and a built in excuse to go along with it. I don’t know how people can’t see through this. Much like Sarah Hall Ingrahm, the IRS hag, they both met with White house officials and decisions were made by the administration. If this guy will fall on his sword for Obama, he needs to be gone.

The National Park Service director told Congress on Wednesday that he had to shut down the open-air memorials on the Mall during the government shutdown because of terrorism, saying that closing them was the only way to protect them “in a post-9/11 world.”

Director Jonathan B. Jarvis also said his agency had received intelligence showing an increased threat of danger since the shutdown began — though he would not tell two House committees what those warnings were.