Secret Service Will Bring Back Agents Who Previously Worked With Biden | Talking Points Memo

The Secret Service is making some staff changes in the presidential detail that will protect President-elect Joe Biden, the Washington Post reported late Wednesday.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1351686

Anthony Ornato, a former detail leader who temporarily left his job to become a White House political adviser and help coordinate Trump rallies — will not be on Biden’s immediate security team.

Ornato will return to the Secret Service to become the assistant director overseeing the agency’s Rowley Training Center …

… to further infect the agency with his fascistic ideals.

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He should be removed.

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This Ornato sounds like another Dan Bongino in the making. And leaving the job to work directly for a president as a political operative and then coming back, to protect the opponent who succeeds him? How is that kosher?

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Exactly. Rooting out the Trump moles should be the first order of business for Biden’s new head of the Secret Service.

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Ornato?

That’s like putting John Wilkes Booth on Lincoln’s security detail.

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Exactly. Rooting out the Trump moles should be the first order of business for EVERY GOVERNMENT AGENCY.

FIFY

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ETTD

Some in the Secret Service also came under criticism during Trump’s tenure for appearing to embrace his political agenda.

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Are any of them named Jack?

Colbert wants to know.

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Why is it even possible for anyone to rejoin the Secret Service after departing to assume and lead decidedly partisan political activities?

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Not exactly a surprise that a paramilitary group would attract some fascists.

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The partisanship…in an organization in which it should be absent.

Certainly, ETTD

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Meh…SS is a certain type and mindset…one I have very little trust for at this point in light of Trump’s KKKult. Biden should be armed himself every single day of his presidency.

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Cops. I swear.

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I do not like this at all. Even if his name was George Washington XXIII, he is not important enough to be involved in those shenanigans

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But amid concerns that some agency members had become politically-aligned maligned with Trump’s agenda, some agents will no longer be serving in the White House detail.

FIFY!

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@castor_troy

They’re far too diplomatic over there at WaPo.

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Oh dear god, that asshole should be put in charge of inventorying stationery, certainly not training more cops.

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A year or two from now, we’ll all be scratching our heads wondering how we could have missed the signs, kind of like we did with the Nashville bomber:

Nashville Bomber’s Girlfriend Warned Police About His Explosives Hobby

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Was Ornato one of the SS agents working in the Obama WH? There were a number of incidents in which people managed to breach the WH fences at that time.

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