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Ramsey Barner

(669 posts)
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:12 AM Oct 17

Panel formed after Trump rally shooting calls for Secret Service shake-up

Source: Washington Post

An independent panel called Thursday for new leadership at the Secret Service, hired mostly from outside the protective agency, saying it needs a major shake-up or security failures such as the July 13 shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania “can and will happen again.”

The bipartisan panel, ordered by President Joe Biden to review the Secret Service after a gunman attempted to assassinate Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., said the protective agency had become “bureaucratic, complacent and static.”

The panel expressed gratitude for agents who risk their lives to protect the president, vice president and other top officials but found significant leadership and cultural failures that put officials at risk, including a lack of critical-thinking skills. The panel recommended that the administration replace the top leadership “as soon as practicable” and urged that most appointees come from outside the agency.

In its 52-page report, the panel wrote that “the Secret Service as an agency requires fundamental reform to carry out its mission. Without that reform, the Independent Review Panel believes another Butler can and will happen again.”

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travelingthrulife

(687 posts)
3. Secret Service just needs to learn how to say, "No" to The Don
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:29 AM
Oct 17

they should have rejected most of the places he holds rallies.

keithbvadu2

(40,097 posts)
4. Another theory of the 'assassination' attempt?. It was a false flag operation by Trump.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:33 AM
Oct 17

Another theory of the 'assassination' attempt?.

It was a false flag operation by Trump. Donald hired an expert marksman to make it look good.
A near-miss on Donald and kill some random supporter for effect.

He even hired a republican for the job.

It's just as valid as any other theory.

IbogaProject

(3,645 posts)
5. Maybe cut back on t45s financial abuse?
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 12:16 PM
Oct 17

Maybe set limits on how the Secret Service budget is used. I'm OK with them guarding him, but they should only have to pay a normal lodging rate, even when staying at his properties. The primary cause was the GOP leaving the Secret Service underfunded, which they thought would harm the current Administration. And the other reason is the pool of professionals willing to defend him isn't necessarily the best and brightest.

C0RI0LANUS

(1,305 posts)
6. USSS has history of problems going back years. They do need a massive shake-up.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 12:43 PM
Oct 17

The 2012 USSS prostitution scandal involved as many as 20 women, 11 American agents and some military personnel:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-17747793

USSS history of sex and alcohol scandals:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/timeline-secret-service-misconduct/index.html

In 2011, Barack Obama's "Prowler Team" protecting the White House went AWOL to help a USSS colleague 50 miles away:

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/pr/2014/oigpr_102214.pdf

There are other tales of woe, going all the way back to JFK.

Initech

(101,906 posts)
7. This is all their people. This is all their stupid talk shows.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 03:29 PM
Oct 17

Why waste time and money on this? It's going to go nowhere. Both shooters were MAGA voters. Remember when the chuckle fucks on Infowars joked that assassinating Trump was good for the cause? Yeah maybe go to that source.

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