Piling on the Secret Service With Good Reason
Swiftly, Julia Pierson has resigned as the head of the Secret Service. Obviously there have been too many secrets in the agency. On one hand the public and people who might want to harm the President, his family, or any of the former presidents and their family don't need to know the agencies failings to encourage copy cats, but internally these issues do not seem to have been addressed properly. Ms. Pierson, a thirty year law enforcement veteran was chosen about eighteen months ago to clean up an agency with more than a few agents that partied to excess on at least one foreign trip.
Protecting our presidents is a full time job. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy were killed by assassins while in office and according to Wikipedia there have been at least twenty other plots to kill presidents. President Regan is fortunate not to be listed as a president killed in office and virtually every president in the modern era has been subject to death threats.
Folks that complain about the TSA, Air Marshalls and security measures at many public events and offices need to take a step back. This is the world we live in. There are a lot of disturbed folks out there and there are terrorist folks who are intent on chaos.
I don't think we can stand the Secret Service being compared to FEMA. The new director needs to not only replace the previous director, he needs to do some serious housecleaning.
Some how or other this has the appearance that the President has not been well served. I don't know the whole truth of the matters, but in highly visible situations with the public screening of a fence jumper, an unlocked front door and what seems to be either confusion or a cover up things need to change.
My only experience with the Secret Service happened a long time ago during a visit to the United States by the President of Iceland who was making a commencement address at the University of Miami. I passed the background check and was invited to a lunch with Vigdis Finnbogadottir and an evening soire with Ambassador Charles Cobb, the Icelandic President and a few folks that wanted to sell disposable diapers in Iceland.
Ambassador Cobb had a very, very nice house and except for the fact that two burly guys seemed to be talking into their sleeves regularly when guests arrived or left you might have thought they were guests just like anybody else.
Protecting our presidents is a full time job. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy were killed by assassins while in office and according to Wikipedia there have been at least twenty other plots to kill presidents. President Regan is fortunate not to be listed as a president killed in office and virtually every president in the modern era has been subject to death threats.
Folks that complain about the TSA, Air Marshalls and security measures at many public events and offices need to take a step back. This is the world we live in. There are a lot of disturbed folks out there and there are terrorist folks who are intent on chaos.
I don't think we can stand the Secret Service being compared to FEMA. The new director needs to not only replace the previous director, he needs to do some serious housecleaning.
Some how or other this has the appearance that the President has not been well served. I don't know the whole truth of the matters, but in highly visible situations with the public screening of a fence jumper, an unlocked front door and what seems to be either confusion or a cover up things need to change.
My only experience with the Secret Service happened a long time ago during a visit to the United States by the President of Iceland who was making a commencement address at the University of Miami. I passed the background check and was invited to a lunch with Vigdis Finnbogadottir and an evening soire with Ambassador Charles Cobb, the Icelandic President and a few folks that wanted to sell disposable diapers in Iceland.
Ambassador Cobb had a very, very nice house and except for the fact that two burly guys seemed to be talking into their sleeves regularly when guests arrived or left you might have thought they were guests just like anybody else.
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