I hate it when everyone reads their statements.
Can’t anyone talk extemperaneously?
Having had responsibility for the security of over 4,000 people in a corporate headquarters complex in a major urban city known for crime, I’ll tell you that this breach of security represents a complete collapse of what should have been a layered security system.
The old belts and suspenders theory. You don’t rely on just one layer of defense.
This was NOT an unforseeable event. This is an event that could and should have been anticipated, and there should have been training against it.
What if there were not one, but MULTIPLE simultaneous threats occurring?
Mr. Basham even said we could be here talking about why the SS shot and killed an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD.
Really? So what?
We could just as well be talking about why half the White House was blown up by someone wearing a suicide vest right now.
The director should resign just out of sheer incompetence and what is left of her honor.
A promise to do better next time is not going to cut it.
There is no acceptable excuse for what occurred, and the same people cannot be left in charge to figure out how it does not happen again.
This witch is going to lose her job. They are not going to allow parsing words testimony here....
No, they can’t speak extemporaneously at all. Between lawyers, coaching, liability and ineptness that ability has been lost.
The attitude of the staff is a reflection of the attitude of their management. The fish rots from the head. The rot sets the tone for the rest of the body. With the wrong leadership even an organization that was good becomes poor under new leadership and it does not take long. It also does not take long for an organization to lose its tribal knowledge. We are losing the edge in lots of places.
You can only tolerate so much PC and you finally just give up and give in and let the chips fall where ever they may. A woman at the front door? Women as supervisors in an organization that is supposed to be closer to a goon squad than finesse? Somebody is stupid. PC run amok. Same thing goes for the military.
Personal discipline is much the same way. If you let yourself slip it just gets easier and easier.
It takes special people to lead special organizations and they have to keep their string taught all the time.
I celebrate every failure of this government and society, every loss of freedoms, every new outrage, every lie, every bungle and every disaster. The sheeple must get what they deserve. It is the only way. I like suffering if they suffer as well. There is no orderly way to reverse this tide. The body has to be destroyed and be rebuilt from the ashes.