Secret Service

Townhall.com ^ | October 2, 2014 | Rich Galen

[Kaslin]

The United States Secret Service (USSS) is in a slump.

The Secret Service used to be part of the Treasury Department. That was because, when the Service was established in 1865, "one-third to one-half" of all currency in circulation in the United States was counterfeit. What with this being just three months after the end of the Civil War, and all, the Secret Service's job was to put a stop to that.

Presidential protection began as an "informal" part of the Service's duties in 1894 in President Grover Cleveland's second (and, as you remember, non-consecutive) term.

The Secret Service got into the Presidential Protection business in earnest after the assassination of President William McKinley, when it assumed full-time responsibility for Presidential protection by assigning two (2) agents to watch over the 42-year-old Theodore Roosevelt who had been McKinley's Vice President.

In 1922, President Warren Harding asked that a special force - the White House Police Force - be created to protect the Executive Mansion. That force was folded into the USSS and in 1970 was renamed the Executive Protective Service. Seven years later it was renamed, again, to its current Uniformed Division of the Secret Service.

In March, 2003 the USSS was officially transferred from the Treasury Department to the newly created Department of Homeland Security. Although the new Department didn't have much to do with Presidential protection or counterfeiting, it did get responsibility for cyber-crimes which had been put into the USSS' portfolio as part of the U.S. Patriot Act in 2001.

The Secret Service is currently under enormous pressure - and rightly so. For my entire life the Service has been a highly respected corps of trained investigators and admired - revered, even - protectors of Presidents and their families.

Now there seems to be a daily torrent of articles detailing dangerous - potentially deadly - mistakes.

In light of the Director Julia Pierson's resignation, if I were the President here's what I'd do. Today.

I would tape a video message for every one of the "3,200 special agents, 1,300 Uniformed Division officers, and more than 2,000 other technical, professional and administrative support personnel."

Here's what such a message might say:

Thank you for agreeing to spend a few minutes with me today. At the top, I want to assure each and every one of you that Michelle and I, over the past seven years, have come to not just appreciate, but to stand in awe of, the dedication, the professionalism, and the loyalty that you show on behalf of our family and on behalf of our nation every minute of every day.

I wanted to talk to you today to make certain that you understand that even the best hitters on the best teams sometimes get into a slump. That doesn't make them any less accomplished a hitter, nor their team any less fearful an opponent. You and I have read, since we were small children, that when you are in a slump you just have to keep grinding: Show up for work every day, get a good look at the ball, and work your way through it.

Michelle, our children, and I know how hard being on a protective detail can be on you and YOUR families. Do not think for one second that we take you - or them - for granted.

The current theory is that moving the Secret Service from Treasury to DHS is responsible for this slump. I don't know if that's correct or not, but I have appointed a committee of Cabinet Department Secretaries:

-- Secretary Lew at Treasury,

-- Attorney General Holder at Justice,

-- Secretary Johnson at DHS and

-- Secretary Hagel at Defense

As he has already announced his impending retirement, I have asked the Attorney General to chair this committee.

The committee will convene immediately and report back to me within 30 days with their recommendation(s) as to what I can do, as the head of the Executive Branch, to make your job more precise; your role more focused; your home life more stable.

The Secret Service has a long and proud tradition of being among the most elite law enforcement units on the planet. That still is, and will continue to be, the case.

The Secret Service is still a fearful team of accomplished hitters and I am asking you - on behalf of every American - to keep grinding.

Thank you and stay safe.

"Keep grinding." Good advice for all of us.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Or is it that they just don’t care about protecting obama and it’s spawn?

[Yo-Yo]

The United States Secret Service (USSS) is in a slump.

Time to bring back James T. West.

[Liz]

It's worth noting that if the Secret Service had remained under the umbrella of the U.S. Treasury Dept, they would have acted upon the tax evasion of Obama's first appointee to Treasury---Timothy Geithner......now the article gives the following activities new meaning.

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THE KINGPINS OF CHICAGO CRIMINAL POLITICS IN OUR WH wasted no time.....they had a stranglehold on the US Treasury (and the US Census) from day one.

The minute Obama/Valerie/Rahm/Axelrod/Geithner, and that diseased bunch of criminals, landed in the WH they did two things that were apparently crucial to their evil plans

(a) they took control of the US Census;

(b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).

THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

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POINTS TO PONDER The connection between (1) the US Treasury agency---the IRS---(2) conservative-targeting, and, (3) the WH's malevolent parasites at Treasury becomes clearer.

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THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD shortly after quitting his powerful WH job as Obama's COS, Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago. Then Rahm announced he had magically "raised" $10 million for his campaign in "just a matter of weeks." (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down). Ya gotta wonder how much Wall Street Rahm wired offshore when Obama put him in charge of the entire US Treasury.

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Looks like the Chicago criminal combine had a much larger plan from the getgo.

[Qiviut]

committee of Cabinet Department Secretaries:

— Secretary Lew at Treasury,

— Attorney General Holder at Justice,

— Secretary Johnson at DHS and

— Secretary Hagel at Defense

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Huh? I’m sure the SS will feel all better after this group of partisan incompetents and Obola sycophants submits their recommendations. Jeh Johnson doesn’t even know what is going on at DHS (which includes the SS). Hagel? Oh please. Holder will probably ask Al Sharpton for suggestions. Maybe Lew can come up with a “grand bargain” for the SS.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

In a documentary concerning the JFK assassination, ballistics experts came to the conclusion that the shot that took the top of JFK's head off came from a newbie SS man with a (new) AR-15 in the SS car following the presidential limo. No "seasoned" SS person was available to carry the weapon as they were all pretty well hung over from a night of partying. It went on to document the SS coverup of the accidental shooting that followed, which was pretty amazing in itself...

Say what you will, the argument was pretty convincing, and if true shows the agency was a major screw-up even back then...

[Brother Cracker]

[MasterGunner01]

If you are a federal employee and have to work for a sociopathic narcissist as President, plus the incompetent morons Obama has selected as your bosses, then realize that your immediate boss reports to one of these idiots about your work, you'd be demoralized too.

The President is at the top of the pyramid called “Executive Branch” and he is a cancer that has affected those beneath him. The cancer is spreading downward all the time and there are no grownups willing to stand up and cutout the malignant tumor. The host continues to weaken as the cancer grows and the body's defenses are overwhelmed.

[armydawg505]

Anyone who thinks Barack or Michelle care a wit about the agents or their families is crazy. And there you have the crux of the problem.

[B4Ranch]

Who was the person who almost doubled the number of federal employees? George Bush. America needs a better president than what we’ve been getting for the past century.

[Little Pig]

When the Dems have held the Oval Office c.f. the Clintons, the SS has been generally treated like “the help”, denigrated, and otherwise been utterly disrespected. I have no reason to believe that the arrogant-in-all-other-things Obamas treat them any better.

In that light, it is of little surprise that the SS feels demoralized and put-upon, and that they might (even subconsciously) put forth less than their full effort when guarding such people.

[Old Yeller]

Don’t you figure that the agents that have to go on the road with him every day are getting tired of being away from home? And with his narcissism, he HAS to be in front of his small number of adoring fans, to feed that narcissism.

[MasterGunner01]

So, by your logic, it's all Bush's fault and poor Barry hasn't done anything to grow the federal Leviathan sine January 20, 2009? Horse feathers.

How come the only real growth area in the employment picture are federal employees Obama’s administration keeps hiring? Private sector unemployment is at an all time high, real unemployment continues to be in the upper ‘teens, and the economy sputters along — crippled by onerous regulations (ObamaCare) and rising taxes.

Bush might not have been the best of Presidents, but he was NOT working actively to destroy the United States at home and throughout the world. Or, have you forgotten that little tidbit?

Yes, I do agree with you that America needs better presidents. That also applies to Congress and SCOTUS. Unfortunately, the public education system, MSM, and Hollywood have dumbed-down majorities of Americans into mind numbed robots. They've been indoctrinated into voting for these fools, liars, and traitors.

What's your solution? I'm at a loss because I don't see a way to break the unholy lock the Left has on American’s minds and voting habits. With Amnesty for the illegal aliens, this country will be another third world basket case like Mexico or Argentina. Freedom and democracy are only a generation away from tyranny. We are rapidly heading that way now.

[B4Ranch]

[Kaslin]

Some of them probably don’t and who can blame them?

[al baby]

Why did you post a picture of that bitch from the view ?

[Kaslin]

Who was the person who almost doubled the number of federal employees? George Bush.

That is a lie, 0bama supporter

[MasterGunner01]

Got it. One more time: What’s your solution to the problem?

[Kaslin]

I didn’t. That is the former secret service director Julia Pearson, although she looks like that cow Rosie O’Donnell in that pic

[B4Ranch]

You are a laugh, thinking I am a Zero supporter. If Bush hadn’t started DHS we’d be much better off.

Here’s an article about Fed employees that’ll surprise you.

http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/08/24/big-government-obama-reagan.html