The Secret Services Now Stands Exposed as a National Embarrassment

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-27 23:50:58 | Updated at 2024-09-30 13:32:28 2 days ago

The Secret Services Now Stands Exposed as a National Embarrassment
New York Post ^ | Sep. 27, 2024 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 09/27/2024 4:28:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway

SNIP

Barney Fife was better organized and more accountable. The Secret Service is given responsibility for avoiding a calamity that would traumatize the nation and derange its politics for years, perhaps decades, to come. Its competence is a matter of the utmost national consequence. Yet the agency was bumbling and slow-reacting, a disaster waiting to happen. Surely, this sort of ineptitude wouldn’t be tolerated by Taylor Swift’s security detail.

The Secret Service, which we expect to be run with a vigor and precision befitting its mission, instead operates as though it’s a typical bureaucratic outfit housed within, say, the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Senate report relates “multiple foreseeable and preventable planning and operational failures,” as an armed man was permitted to climb atop the roof of the American Glass Research building within 200 yards of where Trump was speaking and get off eight shots.

The story of how it happened is muddled by finger-pointing and confusion over who was in charge. Secret Service advance agents didn’t know who was responsible for final decisions, and didn’t know who determined the security perimeter for the event. State and local law enforcement were responsible for the AGR building because it was outside the perimeter. But advance agents didn’t share planning documents with them, and didn’t ask for the operational plans of state and local law enforcement.

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1 posted on 09/27/2024 4:28:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway

To: nickcarraway

As is the SS brother agency, the FBI...

2 posted on 09/27/2024 4:33:13 PM PDT by vetvetdoug

To: nickcarraway

When will it dawn on people that Butler was a deep state hit. It wasn’t a massive Secret Service failure. It was that all deep state agencies sat back and passively let it happen. Mayorkas has been deathly silent.

To: nickcarraway

And then there’s Capitol Police who threw teargas into the wind at peacefully protesting Americans. Then they complained that they got tear-gassed.

It was self inflicted.

4 posted on 09/27/2024 4:36:35 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)

To: nickcarraway

5 posted on 09/27/2024 4:37:03 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)

To: DeplorablePaul

Bingo!

The only difference between JFK and Trump was the DS didn't have real marksman taking the shot.

6 posted on 09/27/2024 4:37:13 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)

To: vetvetdoug

The SS is a bunch of incompetent DEI’s and fatties. The FBI is the dem praetorian guard.

7 posted on 09/27/2024 4:38:06 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )

To: nickcarraway

I THINK I saw the FAT girl that couldn’t holster her gun when Trump got shot being with KAMALA TODAY!!! YAH!!!

8 posted on 09/27/2024 4:39:07 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)

To: DeplorablePaul

Spot on. The incompetence that was seen was part of the plan. It’s not that the organization is incapable — it’s important to recognize that this was a government hit that didn’t succeed.

9 posted on 09/27/2024 4:47:11 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: nickcarraway

The assassination attempts are being swept under the rug to hide their true intentions: They allowed circumstances working for assassination to go on without taking actions to stop them. It is like discovering your child playing with matches and not stopping him; so he burns the house down, so you can collect the insurance money.

10 posted on 09/27/2024 4:47:41 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)

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