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Yes, your job being to protect the POTUS isnât a serious one at all. SMH
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Yeah, umm⌠White House as kiddie theme park. Perfect. Bye Bye lady. Thanks for your service, but this just wasnât the gig for you.
Also - PRO TIP for everyone who works in a large organization- when the long knives come out, EVERY SINGLE THING you said in the past will come back to bite you harder than the robots at the Pirates of the Caribbean. Remember that everyone in Washington has a pet reporter on speed dial. Just sayin.
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Obama is not Goofy
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âI respect Piersonâs service, but she hasnât been on a protective mission in two decades,â the supervisor said. âShe doesnât know anything about security planning in a post-9/11 world.â
So was her appointment merely a political one, just because she is a woman? If so, who appointed her?
Thanks, Juliaâdonât let the White House screen door hit you!
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ââŚher appointment was a political oneâŚâ
Iâm happy to see her go, and I attribute the situation to a bad hire. But it wasnât âpoliticalâ like political appointments. Ms. Pierson was a career SS employee with 30 years of experience throughout the organization. Nothing funny about her being a candidate for the appointment. Weâve all had bad hires in retrospect that at the time appeared logical.
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Looks to me she had 2 decades hands off experienceâŚ
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Not all SS work is protective detail at the WH. For a really interesting look at their work during the 2012 campaign, see Marc Ambinderâs article at Daily Beast today. A lot of logistical work is involved thatâs relevant but may not be hands-on in the way of the WH lapses. You just canât discount 30 years of service as wasted or doing nothing with no supporting documentation.
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Aint that the truth.
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The quote you cite does not say that. Why are you spinning it as such; are you repeating FOX talking points?
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The problem is she was the director of the US Secret Service not some State Department employee trying to make people feel invited. Some person from the Presidentâs national security team should have been trying to convince Pierson to soften the perceived security.
There is both perceived security and actual security. It might be possible to down grade perceived security without downgrading actual security. That should have been her focus but only after she received her marching orders from somebody in the Presidentâs inner circle.
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âEx-Secret Service Director: Agency Needs To Be âMore Like Disney Worldââ
Created by an anti-semite? Not sure where sheâs going with thisâŚ
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Where she was going is she wanted the visiting heads of state to feel welcome. That wasnât her job.
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There was an experienced fellow to whom they offered the job but he declined once a background search showed he had been accused of a racial slur, though exonerated. He probably didnât want that coming up again. (Per the NYT)
So instead we got this ditz.
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No shit?
If you havenât seen the very weird indy movie *Escape From Tomorrow, *which involves Disney being a secret police state, itâs well worth hunting down.
That would be the Pee Tardy.
This woman personifies the word âbimbo.â She is an embarrassment to women in high-level positions, and women in management everywhere. She should never have been placed in that position, and I wonder what made anybody think she was qualified to be? She certainly cannot have been the most qualified person for that position, male or female.
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Please tell me I am not reading what I am seeing here? Disneyfuckingland??
This attributed quote to the ex Director of the Secret Service of the United States will have hordes of spooks heading down to Orlando 