Secret Service under fire

[Horace]

The distance between her claim that the buck stops with her, and her inability to answer any questions or take any responsibility for any specific decisions, is just monumental and pathetic.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in Secret Service under fire:

No, that’s DC bureaucracatese for “not my department”.

[George K]

[George K]

What the actual fuck?

[Horace]

Dumpster fire of an incident, dumpster fire of a coverup. I guess she'll stay until the news cycle moves on, then she'll resign.

[Jolly]

I dunno, the heat will be high on this one.

[LuFins Dad]

The conspiracy theorists are driving me nuts…

[George K]

[Horace]

Dumpster. Fire.

And it will not be a "tweak or two" to fix this. This is a culture of laziness and apathy. A pathetic bureaucracy was directing boots on the ground secret service duties.

[kluurs]

From my understanding, it isn't unusual to "rely" upon local police for perimeter work, BUT it would seem highly appropriate to dedicate at least one Secret Service staff member to be a liaison AND be present to coordinate with the local police.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Secret Service under fire:

The conspiracy theorists are driving me nuts…

[Mik]

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Secret Service under fire:

When you have the Chairman and Ranking Member on the same page, it's over.

Go back to guarding Doritos, lady...

[Jolly]

Git 'er done...

https://www.tampafp.com/florida-rep-greg-steube-files-impeachment-article-against-secret-service-director-cheatle/

[Horace]

Looks like she resigned.

[Jolly]

Gone.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secret-service-director-cheatle-resigns-mounting-pressure-wake-trump-assassination-attempt

[Mik]

She will be lucky to avoid prosecution. Her lack of enlightening information was deliberate.

[Horace]

Difficult to imagine a worse train wreck than yesterday. I felt a little bad for her. But clearly the organization she helmed was dysfunctional.

[LuFins Dad]

Gerry Connolly is calling for her to resign because she had no comment about whether the AR15 being legal was the cause. What a fucking idiot.

[kluurs]

Not specific to this case as I didn't watch any of the questioning, but I rarely feel terribly good about these kinds of hearings as it is all dinner theater - feigned outrage, goofy questions, etc. While having open hearings provides transparency, it rarely does anything to maintain or restore one's faith in government, the intelligence and/or sanity of the people who govern us or hope for the future.