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The Secret Services Now Stands Exposed as a National Embarrassment
New York Post ^ | Sep. 27, 2024 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 09/27/2024 4:28:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway

SNIP

Barney Fife was better organized and more accountable. The Secret Service is given responsibility for avoiding a calamity that would traumatize the nation and derange its politics for years, perhaps decades, to come. Its competence is a matter of the utmost national consequence. Yet the agency was bumbling and slow-reacting, a disaster waiting to happen. Surely, this sort of ineptitude wouldn’t be tolerated by Taylor Swift’s security detail.

The Secret Service, which we expect to be run with a vigor and precision befitting its mission, instead operates as though it’s a typical bureaucratic outfit housed within, say, the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Senate report relates “multiple foreseeable and preventable planning and operational failures,” as an armed man was permitted to climb atop the roof of the American Glass Research building within 200 yards of where Trump was speaking and get off eight shots.

The story of how it happened is muddled by finger-pointing and confusion over who was in charge. Secret Service advance agents didn’t know who was responsible for final decisions, and didn’t know who determined the security perimeter for the event. State and local law enforcement were responsible for the AGR building because it was outside the perimeter. But advance agents didn’t share planning documents with them, and didn’t ask for the operational plans of state and local law enforcement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barneyfife; secretservice
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1 posted on 09/27/2024 4:28:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

As is the SS brother agency, the FBI...


2 posted on 09/27/2024 4:33:13 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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When will it dawn on people that Butler was a deep state hit. It wasn’t a massive Secret Service failure. It was that all deep state agencies sat back and passively let it happen. Mayorkas has been deathly silent.


3 posted on 09/27/2024 4:34:19 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: nickcarraway

And then there’s Capitol Police who threw teargas into the wind at peacefully protesting Americans. Then they complained that they got tear-gassed.

It was self inflicted.


4 posted on 09/27/2024 4:36:35 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: nickcarraway

Call Opie as backup.


5 posted on 09/27/2024 4:37:03 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: DeplorablePaul
When will it dawn on people that Butler was a deep state hit. It wasn’t a massive Secret Service failure. It was that all deep state agencies sat back and passively let it happen. Mayorkas has been deathly silent.

Bingo!

The only difference between JFK and Trump was the DS didn't have real marksman taking the shot.

6 posted on 09/27/2024 4:37:13 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: vetvetdoug

The SS is a bunch of incompetent DEI’s and fatties. The FBI is the dem praetorian guard.


7 posted on 09/27/2024 4:38:06 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: nickcarraway

I THINK I saw the FAT girl that couldn’t holster her gun when Trump got shot being with KAMALA TODAY!!! YAH!!!


8 posted on 09/27/2024 4:39:07 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Spot on. The incompetence that was seen was part of the plan. It’s not that the organization is incapable — it’s important to recognize that this was a government hit that didn’t succeed.


9 posted on 09/27/2024 4:47:11 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: nickcarraway

The assassination attempts are being swept under the rug to hide their true intentions: They allowed circumstances working for assassination to go on without taking actions to stop them. It is like discovering your child playing with matches and not stopping him; so he burns the house down, so you can collect the insurance money.


10 posted on 09/27/2024 4:47:41 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Yup


11 posted on 09/27/2024 4:51:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

They did, there was at least one other shooter, in a different building.


12 posted on 09/27/2024 4:51:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

Government only rewards bureaucrats that fail with more spending, regulation power, and authority to limit your liberties. How can so many not see this?


13 posted on 09/27/2024 4:54:50 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Yes, and the ineptitude is deliberate.
Tom Cotten said as much today.


14 posted on 09/27/2024 4:55:57 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: ClearCase_guy

It has been a couple of months and we still don’t know:

Who was working with Crooks at Butler, PA.

It has been a couple of years and we still don’t know:

Who planted the pipe bomb at the DNC and RNC.

It has been a couple of weeks and we still don’t know:

Where the FL assassin wannabee was getting his intel and money.

Perhaps we will never know.


15 posted on 09/27/2024 5:02:18 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: nickcarraway

There are to be FOUR rings of security. Ring one is comprised of the poor saps who are to throw their bodies on Trump and/carry him to secure X mrks, ring two are comprised of the snipers and crowd workers, ring three secures everything 1000 yards out, creating a wall - which was non existent and only a smattering of the local cops who weren’t even read in to existing threats, ring four was likely non existent or with Jill Biden. The solution? They want more money from congress and those dopes will comply.


16 posted on 09/27/2024 5:02:29 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: blackdog

When all is said and done, the Secret Service came out a lot wealthier. Huge budget increase.


17 posted on 09/27/2024 5:02:42 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: nickcarraway

every gov function has been destroyed by woke minded DEI BS.


18 posted on 09/27/2024 5:04:40 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: nickcarraway

It has been my opinion for a long time that there should be a citizen oversight group that the top managers at each Fed agency would have to be accountable to.

The purpose would be to allow them to ask for records as to how the tax money was spent and to make public their findings. Similar to a Grand Jury. This citizen group would have the authority to expose anyone in Fed Government.

If someone like Myorkis were investigated he would be forced to resign in 30 days or else.


19 posted on 09/27/2024 5:05:22 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

“When will it dawn on people that Butler was a deep state hit.”

They all know it but for whatever reason they won’t say it.


20 posted on 09/27/2024 5:07:08 PM PDT by odawg
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