I wish it was more like Six Flags or Cedar Point. The rides are much better.
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Exactly. Thought the same thing. In fact she did treat being the head of the Secret Service like she was working for Disney World still in costume, and not for the protection of the First Family or the White House.
Theme parks and malls, when well run, have incredibly good security. They just manage to make it unobtrusive. (I think it was Mall of America that was designed to have a door to the security corridors within 50 feet of every point in the place, so that troublemakers could be disappeared almost instantly without disruption to shoppers. And things have come a long way since then.) The idea that the Secret Service should make things actually secure, instead of just having big loud security theater that pisses people off, might well be a good thing.
An alternate explanation might be that she was brought in to clean up a culture of guys who had gotten used to doing pretty much whatever they damn pleased on the taxpayerâs dime while carrying guns, and was unprepared for the level of pushback and sabotage that she faced. Which is a management failure, but a different kind of failure.
At this point, all the knives are going to be out, especially among any of the people who felt threatened by a woman as boss.
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Iâm going to just leave this right here so that the gravity of it all sinks in. Think about it for a minute. Now, suppose this same scenario had unfolded when POTUS was traveling overseas. WTF?!!
REPORT: A Tipsy Secret Service Agent Leaked Details Of Obamaâs Schedule To Romney Campaign
[âŚ] Citing two independent sources, McCoy reports a Secret Service agent was attempting to make advances on a Romney campaign staffer while on the ground in a âkey swing stateâ days ahead of the presidentâs trip there. And in an attempt to impress the staffer, the agent then began listing off details of Obamaâs schedule. The details the agent revealed, including the time and place of planned events, wouldnât become public until several days afterward.
The schedule details did not affect the Romney campaignâs planning, McCoy said. Many Romney aides were skeptical as it was being passed around because they did not know its source. But the details ended up being accurate.[âŚ]
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-service-scandal-agent-obama-schedule-julia-pierson-2014-10
H/T Brett Logiurato
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Thatâs really nuts. But as I read that, I believe what one person or several with the Romney campaign see as âtipsyâ and âtrying to impress a stafferâ, I see as a sympathetic partisan attitude on display, and perhaps part of some of these agentsâ overall demeanor. If that is whatâs getting in the way of providing President Obama with the kind of security detail he deserves, those agents need to be ferreted out immediately. I would go as far as to say some of those agents probably harbor some racist attitudes that havenât been thoroughly flushed out in background checks. I mean how many of them ever thought weâd one day have a Black President that needed protecting, even if they did already have decades of experience behind them?
The myth of the omnipresent and omnipotent Secret Service, and their virtual lock on our perceptions of high level security, has sadly been busted wide open for all to see, even Americaâs enemies. The Presidential detail vetting process clearly has been compromised by virtue of the level of wildlings they seemed to accept into their ranks recently. Its more like fucking Game of Thrones just waiting for something bad to happen these days. Eventually someoneâs gonna get hurt for real.
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She did what baggers want. Cut gubbermint, cut services, cut spending. And still their not happy.
Praetorians, they are not.
Hell, theyâre not even Swiss guardâŚthough those snazzy colorful uniforms might be an improvement.
Like all things in heaven and on earth, the Secret Service was much better under Ronald Reagan. Everyone remembers how quickly and professionally they reacted after Reagan was, um, er⌠shot.
Alrighty thenâŚ!
Not sure where you are going with this!