A member of the Secret Service uniformed division stands guard outside the White House’s (presumably now locked?) front door. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Our irrepressible colleague Carol Leonnig’s stunning account of how deep inside the White House the recent fence jumper got before he was tackled has resulted in mixed reactions of horror and shock — and, of course, a Twitter meme.

It was previously known that the intruder, Omar Gonzalez, scaled the fence, sprinted across the lawn and entered through the unlocked (!) front door. But Leonnig reports that he then evaded a Secret Service officer and ran past the stairway to the first family’s living quarters into the East Room before being caught.

With new details like these, and the Secret Service’s lack of candor, journalists on Twitter pondered what else Gonzalez might have had time to do:

John Tabin, American Spectator: “White House fence jumper makes it to Situation Room, serves as highly influential foreign policy advisor for six months before being caught.”

Simon Maloy, Salon: “The intruder signed 3 bills and paused for a brief photo with the president of Burundi before he was apprehended.”

John Schwartz, New York Times: “After a refeshing nap in the Lincoln bedroom, the fence jumper took Bo for a walk.”

Ben White, Politico: “WH intruder made himself a sandwich, watched 3 eps of Everybody Loves Raymond and took a nap before getting caught.”

Bob Hardt, NY1: “White House jumper also apparently made several recess appointments before being apprehended.”

David Waldman, Daily Kos: “White House intruder actually live-tweeted entire event, also vacuumed steps, began baking cookies.”

Al Kamen, The Washington Post: “White House intruder gets to the East Room, speaks to the nation on dangers of climate change.”

To boldly go on a field trip

Lest there be any confusion, going to the movies during the workday — even if the plot is tangentially related to work — does not count as billable hours.

In May 2013, a supervisor at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series — which monitors, among other things, space weather — organized a “team-building” activity in the middle of the day: lunch, then a 2 p.m. showing of “Star Trek Into Darkness.”

Many who attended assumed that since it was a work-organized event, they could charge the time as work hours. But the Commerce Department inspector general said in a report released this week that, no, going to the movies is not work.

“Unlike training events, which are designed to develop professional skills and therefore may be counted as work hours, watching a Star Trek movie offered no professional development opportunities,” the report said. “Therefore, even if such an event resulted in greater unity or cohesion, the hours spent at the event should not have been billed to the government.”

The event was planned to boost morale, and 21 people, including government workers and private-sector federal contractors, attended. Thirteen of them, including six federal employees (three at NASA, two at NOAA and one from the Commerce Department general counsel’s office), failed to deduct the time from their timecards, and seven federal contractors billed the hours spent at lunch and the movie to the government.

A whistleblower alerted the inspector general to the event, saying it “created the appearance of disregard for tax dollars.” Once the inspector general began investigating, the employees’ timecards were adjusted to reflect the non-work hours. And the contractors who worked for Noblis, Booz Allen Hamilton and Aerospace Corp. eventually all credited the money back to the government.

The inspector general concluded that the supervisor should have been clearer about timekeeping but added that the report was not intended to discourage team-building activities.

“However, events like the matinee viewing of the latest Star Trek movie . . . should not be conducted at the expense of taxpayers,” the IG wrote.

The art lives on

Much has been written about former nine-term congressman James Traficant of Ohio, who died Saturday after a tractor accident.

The media called him flamboyant, colorful and eccentric (that’s code for “crazy”). They talked about his great hair — talk that naturally segued into noting that it was a toupee — and dredged up the former Mahoning County, Ohio, sheriff’s unfortunate eight years in prison after his 2002 bribery conviction. They referred to his signature “Star Trek” phrase, “Beam me up.”

But Loop fans recall Traficant fondly as a budding prison artist, painting mostly horses and barns while serving his sentence. He sold the acrylic and watercolor works on a Web site run by a fan for hundreds of dollars apiece — until prison officials apparently shut down the business.

Of course, critics might say that a modestly talented 7-year-old could do better, but would the kid’s stuff be on eBay?

And given that an artist’s work usually increases in value after he’s no longer with us . . .

Following the money

We’ve written several times about how and where the wealthiest Americans direct their political contributions. But generally only a small sliver of the U.S. population gives money to campaigns, and that includes folks living in the country’s richest places.

Our friends at OpenSecrets.org determined how much political money flowed from the wealthiest locales in each state. Not a whole lot, it turns out.

Sure, there are some spots with plenty of generous political donors. At the top? Washington’s affluent neighbor, Chevy Chase, Md., where residents gave a combined $11.1 million over the last two campaign cycles.

Also giving millions to political campaigns are people living in the New York City suburbs of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Darien, Conn.; another D.C. suburb, Great Falls, Va.; and Paradise Valley, Ariz., a popular spot for celebrities, and home of former vice president Dan Quayle.

In 14 states, the richest places have yielded no campaign contributions this time around. That includes states with critical Senate races, such as Louisiana, Alaska and New Hampshire.

Just imagine all the untapped resources.

— With Colby Itkowitz

Twitter: @KamenInTheLoop, @ColbyItkowitz