Damnit, Secret Service, you had three jobs.

[glhs837]

1. Protect those under your care - Failed.
2. Protect the US currency - Don't think you've failed this one yet.
3. Dont break the goodamn muthereffing LAW!!!!!!! - FAILED!!!!

The U.S. Secret Service found its way into a hair salon near the Colonial Theatre. Its owner says they didn't ask permission

The Secret Service’s Boston office has apologized on behalf of the agency, Alicia Powers says. And Pittsfield Police officers up to and including Chief Thomas Dawley have been helpful and

www.berkshireeagle.com

 

[spr1975wshs]

Here's the unblurred face of the SS agent who put tape over the cameras.

 

[Tech]

Can't have video of our incompetence

 

[vraiblonde]

"They" are calling for an apology. I'd be calling for criminal charges.

 

[Scootboot]

Is that the same chick that couldn't holster her gun? Or is that a guy wearing pearl earrings?

 

[CRHS89]

Wow. It just keeps getting worse.

 

[Sneakers]

I guess they're working under the old "better to do and apologize later than ask permission and get denied".

 

[WingsOfGold]

Instead, they taped over a security camera on the back porch, broke into the salon, helped themselves to the bathroom, ate the mints on the counter and left without tidying up the bathroom or locking the back door on the way out.

She should make a list of things stolen.

 

[Bann]

UFB

Except... not really, anymore.

 

[GURPS]

Secret Service’s ‘Inexcusable’ J6 Failures Stem From Much Deeper Problems, Former Agents Say​

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report July 31 detailing the agency’s performance on the day of the Capitol riot. A fundamental breakdown in inter-agency correspondence led to disparities in intelligence gathering and coordination between the agency and the United States Capitol Police (USCP), the former agents said.

“The bottom line that caused it all is, whether it’s a combination of the Capitol Police and the Secret Service or ultimately, the entity responsible for protection, were not prepared, or did not anticipate accurately, the necessary manpower,” former Secret Service agent Dean Peterson told the Caller. “Because of it, they were kind of caught off guard, and that led to some poor, in-the-moment decisions.”

The potential for chaos was obvious, however, according to Peterson, which render the mishaps “inexcusable.”

“I’m shocked, I guess, by what the intelligence community may or may not be communicating. I would think … you don’t need to be a part of these things and have intimate knowledge to have this perspective of like, ‘Wow, this is an unusual election circumstance,'” Peterson said.

 

[Kinnakeet]

Here's the unblurred face of the SS agent who put tape over the cameras. View attachment 178868

DEI hire

 

[GURPS]

Secret Service HQ told agents not to request extra security for Trump’s Butler rally: whistleblower​

The whistleblower allegations were revealed in a Friday letter from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, in which the lawmaker demanded answers to Rowe’s “apparent contradiction” that no security assets were denied for the event.

“You must explain this apparent contradiction immediately,” the senator wrote.

The whistleblower claimed that the officials at Secret Service headquarters told agents in charge of the Butler campaign event to forgo asking for any additional security via a formal manpower request — which are typically made by lead advance agents ahead of trips and submitted to the local field office, in this case, Pittsburgh.

The request, which includes the number of personnel and other security assets, is submitted to the Secret Service’s Office of Protective Operations – Manpower for final review.

 

[vraiblonde]

Secret Service’s ‘Inexcusable’ J6 Failures Stem From Much Deeper Problems, Former Agents Say​

The "deeper problem" is that our DOJ is politically compromised from top to bottom. FBI, CIA, SS....all of them are part of a fascist regime. SS thought they could get away with assassinating Trump, it's literally that simple. Had Trump not abruptly looked away it would have been a perfect head shot. I have no doubt they groomed that kid for this specific purpose, and set up the whole thing. It's ridiculous to say SS is that inept.

What's disheartening is that half the country....doesn't care. They either wish Trump *had* been killed, or they look the other way. Most of them don't even bother to try and finesse it - they just flat say they wish the kid had better aim.

That is today's Democrat Party.

 

[Kyle]

The "deeper problem" is that our DOJ is politically compromised from top to bottom. FBI, CIA, SS....all of them are part of a fascist regime. SS thought they could get away with assassinating Trump, it's literally that simple. Had Trump not abruptly looked away it would have been a perfect head shot. I have no doubt they groomed that kid for this specific purpose, and set up the whole thing. It's ridiculous to say SS is that inept.

What's disheartening is that half the country....doesn't care. They either wish Trump *had* been killed, or they look the other way. Most of them don't even bother to try and finesse it - they just flat say they wish the kid had better aim.

That is today's Democrat Party.

Long past time to break out the guillotine.

 

[Hijinx]

Trump has said he will give RFK jr. a commission to investigate assassinations, and it is concluded that he will investigate the JFK assassination, which I think is a good thing, but before that the investigation and the utter failure of the SS at his own attempted assassination should be paramount.

 

[GURPS]

Hawley Releases Damning Report on Security Failures Leading Up to First Attempt on Trump’s Life​

The report is based on whistleblower allegations brought to his office in the wake of Crooks’s rampage. Before the report was published, Hawley sent multiple letters to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, questioning him about the most shocking details from the whistleblowers who contacted his office.

Overseeing the Secret Service’s security operations at the rally was an unnamed lead agent who apparently has a history of incompetence and who directed the placement of certain items around the stage of the Trump rally that impaired visibility. The individual is allegedly known to be a low-quality agent and failed an examination on the way to becoming a Secret Service agent.

Secret Service intelligence units were not at the Butler rally. If they had been there, they could have prevented or mitigated the communication breakdown between federal and local law enforcement, Hawley’s report says, a major allegation that he has not previously publicized.

Ahead of the rally, the Secret Service’s counter-surveillance division did not conduct its typical inspection of the site and did not have a presence at the Butler campaign rally. A whistleblower told Hawley’s office that the counter-surveillance division would have arrested Crooks for carrying a rangefinder. The same whistleblower alleges that acting director Ron Rowe personally requested cuts to the counter-surveillance division, a claim Rowe has denied.

At a congressional hearing in July, Rowe admitted to the Secret Service’s mistakes on the day of the Trump rally, including a decision to reject an offer from local law enforcement for drone support after the Secret Service was unable to fly its own. Hours before the shooting, Crooks flew a drone around the perimeter of the Trump rally for roughly 11 minutes, the FBI has determined.

 

[SamSpade]

I am not sure which seems more disturbing - that both of these attempts were foiled but otherwise conducted by rank amateurs (although it might be argued that the first one was NOT foiled, because he DID manage to get Trump, albeit in a non-lethal part of his body).

OR -

That his security is SO LAME, an actual professional assassin might have no problem pulling it off.

 

[Kyle]

OR -

That his security is SO LAME, an actual professional assassin might have no problem pulling it off.

Democrats are gonna stick with disposable amatuers.

They're saving the big bucks for their next Gay Communist Parade.

 

[stgislander]

Rowe stated yesterday at the presser yesterday that the SS's operation on Sunday was a success.

 

[glhs837]

Rowe stated yesterday at the presser yesterday that the SS's operation on Sunday was a success.

Well Trump didn't get shot, so compared to the last attempt, this one was a rousing success. Of course, getting lucky enough to spot the guy, not sure that's what we want as the example. And letting him escape so that only a bystander taking a couple of pics meant he was caught, that's not top tier stuff either, IMO.

Not blaming the agents here. They can do what they can do with the resources allocated.