Omar J. Gonzalez

The 23-year-old Maryland man who climbed over the White House fence Wednesday night has been charged with felonies for assaulting two police dogs and making threats, the Secret Service said Thursday.

A government investigation Wednesday criticized a bizarre Secret Service assignment that pulled agents from their duty near the White House and sent them to the rural Maryland home of a headquarters employee embroiled in a personal dispute with a neighbor.

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson stayed impassive under a barrage of criticism at a congressional hearing on the agency’s shortcomings on Tuesday. The only signs that she was unsettled were a couple of mangled words and a misstatement, a big one.