Posted on 04/19/2016 4:34:07 PM PDT by jazusamo
Two lawmakers say the U.S. Secret Service may be running out of agents and could need to use outside help, according to the Washington Examiner.
"USSS simply cannot hire enough personnel to keep pace with historic attrition rates," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland said Tuesday in a letter to Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy.
The letter, which comes after a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) probe that questioned the agency's "ability to protect the White House and its occupants," called on the U.S. Secret Service to find ways to maintain the necessary level of staff. The probe was conducted after a man jumped over the fence and went into the White House in 2014.
"The committee encourages USSS to explore innovative ways to fill this staffing gap-such as detailing qualified law enforcement officials or [administrative, professional, and technical] employees from other agencies-in the short-term while continuing its long-term efforts to develop a zero-based budget and increase hiring and retention," the letter said.
"Nearly every USSS employee who spoke with the [inspector general] said they had serious concerns regarding UD staffing shortages," the lawmakers said.
"Some employees characterized the agency as 'hemorrhaging' employees."
The DHS was working to increase the number of special agents, but its efforts have been unsuccessful because so many people have left the department over the past two years, according to the Examiner.
"Although they may have only indirectly contributed to the events of that night, underlying and continuing resource and management issues are negatively affecting the Uniformed Division and, potentially, its ability to protect the White House and its occupants," the DHS inspector general said in a report released Tuesday.
"In particular, the Uniformed Division is severely understaffed, which has led to inadequate training, fatigue, low morale, and attrition."
‘Abolished...’
It is the task of the SS is to protect the US dollar from counterfeiters .
Thanks, Nully.
The New Yorker photo was the one I had in mind, but couldn’t locate it.
Even lowering the standards for affirmative action and they can’t keep up? Says a lot about this bunch.
These decent Americans do not want to be referred to - and treated like - pigs in a Clinton administration.
No more drug-fueled hooker junkets to Colombia, so I guess there’s less incentive to stay.
The organization went from hero to zero fast.
That’s OK; as long as you DON’T shoot one at him, I don’t want that SONOFABITCH becoming a martyr.
The WOOKIE doesn’t need protection; WE need to be protected FROM IT.
I would not step in front of him and take a bullet.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
LOL. Hell. I would get out of the way and wish that bullet to go straighter and faster!
Obama is simply a traitor to America.He has had his grand apology tour , betrayal of American allies and American values.
No wonder the Secret Service cannot find staff to protect a treasonous president, who is no better that a tin pot, banana republic dictator.
Whoever is president he or she should be provided with the same level of protection he or she provides foe our borders.
I recently read a book by a former SS agent. It detailed how being assigned to Hildabeast was considered punishment.
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