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Posted on 10/19/2014 12:55:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Secret Service is scandal prone. It spends excessively on foreign presidential trips, and it has agents who get in trouble with prostitutes and liquor bottles. The recent White House fence-jumping incident was a stunning failure. Despite the Service spending $1.9 billion a year, a guy with a knife jumped the fence, sprinted across the lawn, pushed open the front door, galloped through the Entrance Hall, danced across the East Room, and almost had time to sit down for a cup of tea in the Green Room.
In the wake of the incident, the head of the Secret Service resigned. But the Service is an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the head of DHS, Jeh Johnson, did not resign. Indeed, he said very little about it, presumably to evade responsibility. So what is the purpose of having the DHS bureaucratic superstructure on top of agencies such as the Secret Service? If DHS does not correct problems at agencies when they fester for years, and if DHS leaders do not take responsibility for agency failures, why do we need it?
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This administration has been a Krystalnact, Richstag Fire and a Night of the Long Knives all rolled into one lumpy disease infested ball named Obola!
Could not agree more.
Break up DHS. Have the necessary functions, like Secret Service and CBP stand alone and scuttle the rest.
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What shocked me is how poorly trained the so-called police dogs are trained! The stated reason to not release the dog was it might attack the police following the bad guy.
I hate to say it but the WWII dogs in the Pacific, trained by William Koehler, and subsequent police dogs trained by him or the people who followed him, would not have had that problem.
DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine CORPSE and TWICE their budget.
We somehow managed to exist around 230 or so without a DHS, and we all survived.
We don’t need it now. The democrats just wanted more .gov bureaucracy, and during the urgency of the moment the squishy Bush admin just went with it, as they did everything else.
I was a fed before the inception of DHS. It is the worst thing that has happened to the border agencies. When Bush created it I thought it sounded very Sovietesque..
W came up with it, No? after 9 11?
Yes, there were such problems at that time; they were merely discounted as an inevitable risk to the operation. Dog training has come a long way since Bill Koehler, and no, I'm not talking about "Pet Smart" style all-positive training. There was an enormous amount of work done after WWII on operant behavior and positive reinforcement. There is a balance between reinforcement and 'not taking any crap' that depends heavily upon the character of the dog.
IMO, the Dutch have it about right, which is why there are more dog dealers crawling all over southern Holland than just about anywhere. I'm a KNPV fan myself.
Yeah - it was wrong then and is even more wrong now. As wrong as a soup sandwich and they would need instructions on how to toast a marshmallow.
Heck, every guy I know carries a pocket knife, SO WHAT, does not make us intent on harming someone!
Media made a big deal of "HE HAD A KNIFE", get over it..........
I suppose metro males don't carry knives?
It used to be so simple. The FBI was for catching domestic miscreants, the CIA foreign ones. There wasn’t any “terrorism” just lawbreaking, but the laws were still half sensible.
I used to look forward to reading my intelligence reports because they were specific to our area of responsibility. With the inception of DHS we are inundated with Intel that has no bearing on our area. As a BPA in El Centro CA I don’t need to know about a car stolen in Vermont
Yes he did, but the dems insisted on it being a separate agency with union jobs.
Or I could be thinking of the TSA(another worthless .gov agency that shouldn’t exist)
I remember Tom Daschle and his slogan: “We don’t professionalize unless we federalize!”
(or something like that).... ROFL
If ya have a pocket, ya have a knife. That is the standard.
Only our rulers need Der Feurerland Corps. Or is it Corpse?
Koehler's method was also used on all those Disney dogs of the 50s and 60s. No treats.
The guy just wanted to do his religious duty and remove the head of this lying infidel.
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