Affirmative Action has probably infested their hiring decisions as thoroughly as all other Federal agencies.
I had an engagement with the Secret Service back in 2004 that really scared me about their ability to protect the president. Some Freepers may remember that I came here onto FR and posted a question as to what I should do, since I had heard a coworker say in the middle of a group of people that he had “bought a gun for the occasion” of President Bush coming to Daytona Beach for the Daytona 500 race.
Taking the advice of fellow Freepers and my brother, who is a cop, I called the Secret Service office in Orlando and told them exactly what I’d heard, who said it, where and when, etc., and I gave them my contact information. The girl taking the info said that a field agent would contact me. I then came back to FR and posted a follow-up saying that I’d called the Orlando office and reported the incident.
About six weeks went by, and I got a call from the office where the incident had occurred telling me that the Secret Service had been there to talk to me. They left a number, so I called the guy back. He told me that he was sorry it had taken him so long to contact me, but he’d had to subpoena FreeRepublic and my cable company to get my information so that they could follow up on the incident I’d posted about on here.
Six weeks to follow up on something through multiple subpoenas for information that was given to them immediately - do you wonder why I question whether the agency is effective?