Secret Service under fire

[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.

[89th]

@George-K said in Secret Service under fire:

I'm not sure a whistleblower was needed for that. I presumed the building was outside the security perimeter because the Secret Service relied on local law enforcement to keep it secure and the local cops likely didn't take the building too seriously because it was hot out and, let's be honest, the idea of someone climbing on the roof and shooting when surrounded by so many cops, was likely the furthest thing from their minds.

A failure, for sure... but I can easily see how it happened.

Further, the security perimeter around these events is almost ALWAYS smaller than you think, with the ability for people to shoot guns from far away at the target. But the distance (difficulty) mixed with the ability to maneuver around secondary law enforcement, usually deters would-be assassins.