Carol Leonnig - with Rosalind S. Helderman and Julie Tate
contributing - writing in the Washington Post:
* * *
* *
A man masquerading as a member of Congress walked into a
secure backstage area without being properly screened and spoke with President
Obama at an awards dinner last fall.
Five days later, a woman walked backstage unchecked at a
gala dinner where Obama was a featured guest.
Months after that, two people strolled unnoticed past a
Secret Service checkpoint into the first layer of the White House grounds.
* OBAMA HAS BROKEN THE SECRET SERVICE...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The incidents were among a half-dozen previously
undisclosed security breaches since 2013...
* SINCE 2013!
* THIS IS ONLY TWO YEAR'S WORTH...!!!
* THIS BOZO HAS BEEN PRESIDENT SINCE JANUARY OF
2008...!!!
...that were detailed in an extensive, bipartisan
congressional investigation of the inner workings of the Secret Service.
* OBAMA'S SECRET SERVICE! HIS PEOPLE! HIS APPOINTEES!
In a critical report to be released publicly Thursday,
House investigators describe the once-elite force...
* THE...
* ONCE... ELITE... FORCE.
* NO LONGER VERY "ELITE" SINCE OBAMA AND HIS
PEOPLE TOOK OVER.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
...as an “agency in crisis” that has failed to fix many
of the deeply ingrained problems exposed last year amid a string of humiliating
security lapses, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Washington
Post.
* FOLKS... THE SECRET SERVICE - LIKE ANY OTHER
ORGANIZATION - ALWAYS HAD ITS SHARE OF PROBLEMS... OF DYSFUNCTION... BUT WHAT
HAS HAPPENED UNDER OBAMA'S WATCH...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The report offers detailed assessments of the failings of
the Secret Service during several well-publicized security incidents, including
the agency’s halting response to a 2011 shooting at the White House and an
incident last year in which an armed man with an arrest record was able to
board an elevator with Obama.
A man masquerading as a member of Congress walked into a
secure backstage area without being properly screened and spoke with President
Obama at an awards dinner last fall. Five days later, a woman walked backstage
unchecked at a gala dinner where Obama was a featured guest. Months after that,
two people strolled unnoticed past a Secret Service checkpoint into the first
layer of the White House grounds.
* AND HAS ANYONE BEEN FIRED?
* AND... IF SOME HAVE BEEN FORCED TO RESIGN... ARE THEY
AT THIS VERY MOMENT COLLECTING FAT TAXPAYER PROVIDED PENSIONS?
More broadly, the report assessed the Secret Service as
an agency that remains deeply troubled, despite recent attempts at "reform."
It concludes that the service has a “staffing crisis,” with fewer personnel
today than in 2014, when an administration panel recommended adding 280 new
staff members and Director Joseph P. Clancy took over vowing to enact the reforms.
* OH... BULL$HIT! IF ANYTHING THE SECRET SERVICE IS
OVERSTAFFED... BECAUSE... ITS MISSION HAS BEEN BROADENED AND DEEPENED!
* FOLKS... MORE (BORROWED) MONEY SQUANDERED ON MORE (IN
TOO MANY CASES INCOMPETENT AND IMMORAL) PERSONNEL IS NOT THE ANSWER!
“The agency’s recent public failures are not a series of
isolated events, but the product of an insular culture that has historically
been resistant to change,” states the report, compiled by the Republican and
Democratic staffs of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
* AGAIN... FOLKS... I GET THE "BIPARTISAN" SPIN
TO SPREAD THE BLAME ACROSS ADMINISTRATIONS... BUT... COM'ON... SINCE OBAMA TOOK
OFFICE THE TRAIN HAS RUN OFF THE RAILS!
* HOOKERS... PEDOPHILE OFFICERS... LOSING WEAPONS...
RUNNING OVER PEOPLE... DRUNKENNESS ON DUTY...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The staffing decline, which includes the
uniformed-officer division that guards the White House, is “perhaps the
greatest threat” to the Secret Service, the report says. Among other factors,
the report points to past budget cuts and “systemic mismanagement” by the
agency.
* FOLKS... RE-READ THE ABOVE USING LOGIC. 1) SYSTEMATIC
MISMANAGEMENT; 2) PAST BUDGET CUTS. (GOT IT?) SO... WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS...
WE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN MORE MONEY TO... THOSE MISMANAGING THE RESOURCES THEY
ALREADY WERE IN CHARGE OF...?!?!
* FOLKS... DOES THAT MAKE ANY DAMN SENSE TO ANY OF
YOU...?!?!
Although Clancy assured lawmakers earlier this year that
there were “no greater priorities” for him than hiring the right number of
staff, the agency’s roster has dropped from 6,367 full-time employees at the
end of September 2014 to 6,315 one year later — its lowest point in a decade.
Morale is “critically low,” contributing to a drop in
personnel through attrition.
The report also blames the decline on an inefficient
hiring process that hampers recruitment of high-caliber staff.
“The high attrition rate means that the personnel who
remain are significantly overworked, and morale is at an all-time low,” the
report says. The report also warns that the agency’s new hiring system
“overburdens USSS with low quality applicants.”
* GEEZUS...
* THE AGE OF OBAMA, FOLKS...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The report also warns that Obama and 2016 presidential
candidates face heightened danger if the administration does not swiftly fix
the agency’s problems.
* "THE ADMINISTRATION" REPRESENTS THE PEOPLE WHO
SCREWED UP... WHO BROKE... THE SECRET SERVICE! (SEVEN... FRIGGIN'... YEARS...
OF... OBAMA...!!!)
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the Oversight
Committee, said the report should spur further action by the Obama
administration.
* KINDA TALKING THE FOX GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE - AREN'T
WE?
“The situation is getting worse not better,” he said.
“The president is in jeopardy, and he better personally get involved in fixing
this.”
* FOLKS... THESE ARE OBAMA'S PEOPLE! OBAMA IS THE ONE WHO
PUT THEM IN PLACE!
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the panel’s ranking
Democrat, said that he supported the report’s findings but that it “may not be
exactly how I would have written it.”
Cummings said he, too, is deeply concerned about the
safety of the president and the first family and worries there is a cultural
problem at the agency.
* THIS... Er... "CULTURAL" PROBLEM RUNS DOWN
HILL - FROM THE PRESIDENT ON DOWN.
Cummings said Congress shares some blame for making some
of the biggest funding cuts in agency history in 2011.
* AGAIN... THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD... INCREASING
FUNDING GOING TO INCOMPETENT MANAGEMENT...
(*STILL SHAKING MY HEAD*)
...DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THE BEST PLAN TO ME. (HOW'BOUT
YOU?)
A Secret Service spokesman said the agency received the
report late Wednesday and would not comment until officials had time to review
the full findings.
“The Secret Service recognizes that the House Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform is legislatively mandated to exact oversight
on the Secret Service,” said spokesman David Iacovetti. “We are reviewing the
report at this time and will carefully assess any recommendations made by the
committee.”
* WHEN THEY CAN SOBER SOMEONE UP AND GET 'EM OUT OF THE
LOCAL WHOREHOUSE...
(*SNORT*)
The investigative report is highly critical of the Secret
Service’s management, saying its nature is to cover up problems and punish
those who flag concerns. While Clancy has promised to encourage staff to come
forward with their complaints, the report says he and his team have largely
failed to set a new tone.
* AND, FOLKS... THIS IS THE BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE!
(*ANOTHER SNORT*)
The agency “cannot repair itself without first restoring
the trust of its employees and increasing personnel dramatically,” the report
states.
* AH, YES... ALWAYS THE ANSWER: "INCREASE PERSONNEL
DRAMATICALLY."
(*SPITTING ON THE FLOOR*)
“Whether from missteps at the executive level or at the
field office supervisor level, it is clear many of the rank-and-file have lost
confidence in USSS’s current leadership.”
* THE OBAMA-APPOINTED LEADERSHIP...
The committee’s probe uncovered a number of previously
unreported breaches — including several that occurred about the time last fall
that the agency was already under fire for its mistakes.
The most dramatic finding involved new details
surrounding an incident at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s awards
dinner in Washington on Sept. 27, 2014, in which a man gained entry by posing
as Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.). The man got backstage past a distracted
Secret Service staffer and then was escorted to meet and talk with Obama. The
impersonator’s entry to the event was reported at the time but not that he got so
close to the president.
* AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS "DISTRACTED" SECRET
SERVICE STAFFER?
That incident came just days after a knife-wielding fence
jumper had been able to race into the East Room of the White House.
And it followed another high-profile breach, when an
armed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contractor with an arrest
record was able to step onto an elevator and stand within arm’s reach of Obama.
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS $HIT UP...
The new investigation also found that in October 2014, a
day after Julia Pierson resigned under fire as director, a woman got backstage
at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s gala being attended by the
president.
* AGAIN... WAS ANYONE FIRED?
Seven days later, the House inquiry found, an employee
was allowed to enter a Los Angeles hotel where Obama and senior adviser Valerie
Jarrett were staying without being properly screened for weapons or having his
bag checked.
(*STILL SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Other previously unreported episodes affected other
officials:
In April 2013, four people went fishing on a small lake
in the back yard of Vice President Biden’s Delaware home and were not
discovered until neighbors called the Secret Service to report the security
breach. The alarm system at Biden’s home had been failing for some time.
(*SNORT*)
In spring 2014, a Czech citizen with an expired visa
entered the property of former president George H.W. Bush and stayed for an
hour without being detected.
* GOD HELP US...
The report blasted Secret Service officials in several
instances for failing to examine its own mistakes and asserted that Clancy and
some of his predecessors had provided Congress with information that was false
and misleading about the extent of problems.
* THEN THEY SHOULD GO TO JAIL! IT'S A CRIME TO LIE TO
CONGRESS! THE LAW SHOULD BE ENFORCED!
The report said Clancy gave inaccurate information about
the incident involving the man on the elevator with Obama when he said no other
armed security contractors came within close proximity to the president. But an
internal review of the breach suggested that there were several unscreened and
armed guards in the area.
The report noted that after the Secret Service took four
days to discover that bullets from the November 2011 shooting had struck the
White House residence, the agency’s inspection team did not immediately open a
file on the case. The division instead opened a file in October 2014, only
after a Post report the previous month detailed the agency’s handling of the
incident, the report says.
* GEEZUS... FRIGGIN'...
(*MUMBLING TO MYSELF*)
Congressional investigators criticized testimony from
former Secret Service director Mark Sullivan after the April 2012 scandal in
which 13 agents were implicated in bringing prostitutes back to their hotel
before the president’s arrival in Colombia.
Sullivan, appearing about a month after the episode,
assured lawmakers that the behavior of the agents and officers involved did not
point to a larger cultural problem in which such behavior was tolerated by
managers. But the investigation found that several agency employees had
previously acknowledged to Secret Service investigators that they had engaged
in similar misconduct elsewhere, including having had sex with foreign
nationals in Italy, Russia, Ireland and New York City.
Sullivan could not be reached for comment.
* SULLIVAN SHOULD BE IN PRISON!
* FOLKS... OBAMA IS DESTROYING AMERICA! GOVERNMENT -
INCLUDING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM - HAS BEEN TOTALLY COMPROMISED DURING THE
PAST SEVEN YEARS OF OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY! WHAT'S IT FRIGGIN' GONNA TAKE...?!?!
The report cited a number of colorful e-mail exchanges
between Secret Service staff suggesting that arranging liaisons with
prostitutes was a widely known and accepted practice. Before the Colombia trip,
one senior supervisor e-mailed 54 employees, cracking that the motto of the
trip was “Una Mas Cerveza Por Favor,” Spanish for “one more beer, please.” In
another note, an agent wrote to a colleague, “Swagg cologne-check/Pimp
gear-check/Swagg sunglasses-check/Cash for dem hoes-check.”
* THIS... IS... OBAMA'S... SECRET... SERVICE...
The report said that the openness of the communication
indicates that the Secret Service employees “did not believe their misconduct
would be punished.”
* THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN; THE BUCK STOPS AT
OBAMA'S DESK.
* FOLKS... OBAMA IS A DANGEROUS INCOMPETENT IN ADDITION
TO BEING A DANGEROUS LEFTIST. EVERY REPUBLIC OFFICEHOLDER SHOULD BE CALLING FOR
HIS RESIGNATION... AND BARRING THAT... HIS IMPEACHMENT, CONVICTION, AND REMOVAL
FROM OFFICE.
The report said Clancy could move the agency forward but
is hampered by being a 27-year veteran of the Service.
* I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS...
* I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO RESPOND TO SUCH EXTREME
NONSENSE!
“The Committee believed — and still does — that new
senior leadership from outside the agency would be best positioned to enact the
reforms that the agency desperately needs,” the report said.
* THE PROBLEM BEING... OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS THE
OBAMA CANCER HAS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT...
(*SIGH*)
“USSS leadership needs to honestly acknowledge the problems
plaguing the agency . . . because only then can the agency truly set about
moving in the right direction.”
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