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“The Secret Service then said that the shots were from a gang gunfight near the White House, even though at least seven bullets had actually struck the building. According to the Post, it took four days for the Secret Service to realize that bullets hit the White House after a housekeeper noticed a broken window.”
Perhaps we should bring in the Ferguson PD? At least they would have fired right back using the NYPD stop and shoot/beat policy.
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Yet another “event” to distract from the real issue at hand–Benghazi.
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What is going on with the supervisors of the Secret Service? It reads like the on-scene officers did their jobs as trained, only to ordered to “stand down” by higher ups not on the scene. Even though this happened three years ago, but is only now being reported, I wonder if these relevant supervisors are still on the job? I also wonder if a perusal of their email accounts show certain types of Obama references?
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Military officers are dominated by conservatives. As Gen McChrystal showed, many have a blind, emotional, visceral hatred for liberals and especially (semi) liberal black presidents. It is not much of a jump to think that Secret Service agents share the same cultural values, and part of their negligence about protecting the president is that (maybe not so) secretly they wouldn’t mind seeing something happen to him.
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Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Dan
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iirc, guns were allowed in the auditorium obama was to speak in during a trip to texas … i think it was during the campaign or shortly after he was elected. i remember being surprised at the rather lazy attitude toward security for him. esp with the knowledge that threats against the president have increased off the charts with obama in office.
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Moving it out of Treasury into Homeland Security, where it has to compete for resources with a dozen other security agencies without its own cabinet level advocate and years of idiot Republican budget trimming to find money to hand over to the .1% is a big part of it, IMO. There’s a go-along to get-along bureaucratic carreerist mindset that can set in when you’re sharing turf that way.
Having said that, the Secret Service has had other episodes where it slipped into complacency about its own competence and training that created dangerous blind spots. Like, for example, the time a poorly planned motorcade route that was published in the paper, for god’s sake, got combined with a number of members of the protective detail who hung over from a long night of partying on a certain November day in Dallas.
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Despite my reluctance to give in to some kind of paranoia, there have been too many instances of security “neglect” under this President not to have serious questions.
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Unless we’re talking Christian dominionists, ie malice and stupidity.
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I knew that Kennedy’s motorcade route was printed in the newspaper so that crowds might show up in support. However, I didn’t realize that hard-partying was a problem with the POTUS security detail as far back as that. It’s scary to think that such job-affecting behavior is a tradition of the Secret Service.