Secret Service agents’ initial account of a car accident with Vice President Kamala Harris’s motorcade earlier this week was reportedly misleading.
Clean house at the Secret Service.
JFC. A USSS protective detail driver has ONE job and at that, he or she failed. Needs to not be behind the wheel of any US Gov’t vehicle.
And then they half-assedly tried to cover it up?
I mean, a blown tire is technically a mechanical failure. That it was caused by hitting the curb doesn’t change that fact.
Any false reporting here is disturbing because of the USSS’s behavior in the wake of January 6th, but without that context, I don’t think it’s a big deal.
Except that we have that context. USSS has shown a willingness to falsify and withhold. Folks who’ll lie about little things to save face will lie about big things, and it’s already an embarrassment and distraction that we don’t need, let alone the far bigger issues it raises.
Maybe she tried to grab the wheel?
Are the Pinkertons still around? I know they weren’t great with Lincoln, but it’s been a while.
Norms can be abused…and set straight. Every American social institution is recovering from the Trump presidency.
“Cheatle reportedly told people close to her that she was disturbed that the first report was off.”
Here’s the nub of the problem. Don’t be “disturbed”; be effing furious. Don’t tell people “close to you”; tell the people in a position to do something about it if you won’t.
On the grand scale of things, it’s just a little lie, but an agent who will lie about the small stuff is, overall, untrustworthy. Yes, it’s embarrassing to hit the curb, but nobody actually dies of embarrassment. Stand up people own up to their mistakes. Was the driver distracted at the moment, like maybe checking a phone, and that’s why the lie? Let’s circle back to that word - untrustworthy.
I think we have some clue, but what’s the culture there? Is it a culture that accepts if not promotes fibbing rather than honesty? A top-to-bottom assessment and housecleaning of this critical organization is way past due, and this (if nothing else, and too late) should be the jumping-off point for doing so.
The Secret Service is no longer either. Neither secret, nor service.
Yes, it is time to clean house.
Sheesh, people. Let’s not !Benghazi! this.
So in the seconds after they hit a curb, when nothing’s been established as to why the vehicle hit the curb (e.g. you don’t know if the driver messed up or if there was something that went wrong that made the car swerve and hit the curb), they use an innocuous term while calling it in.
Within a few days, having done the investigation, interviewed the driver, now they’ve released a clearer picture.
Pretty much how the whole Benghazi shit got blown up, people making all these conspiracy theories because some preliminary initial stuff didn’t wholly pan out.
Nothingberder.
I am afraid that the SS being peopled by a bunch of over-testosteroned yahoos predated Trump. He just set them free to behave like high school bullies.
The initial report was misleading.
The news that the driver was possibly incompetent is not reassuring.
I’ve donebthiS twiCe. CuRbs aRe gRanitE with very shaRp edge.
Which is the same thing that was what led to !Benghazi! and years of hearings over a nothingberder.
First reports from the scene are quite often flat-out wrong.
Some decades back, I had a tire blow out, then hit a curb (front tire, so it jerked the truck to the right). Turned out it had been punctured by a nail. But any passerby would have assumed that hitting the curb was the cause just on observation. Wouldn’t find the nail until later when I took the wheel to the tire place.
yep, it’s not an electrical or SW failure, so it’s mechanical.
See it helps when SS text messages don’t get deleted
At least teach them how to drive!