Pierson Failed To Provide Fresh Start For Secret Service That Administration Wanted -- Washington Post
The resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson and the launch of a top-to-bottom review of the agency Wednesday are an acknowledgment by President Obama of what he has long denied: that the force charged with protecting him is in deep turmoil and struggling to fulfill its sacred mission.
The 6,700-member agency, long an elite class of skilled professionals who prized their jobs, now suffers from diminished luster and historically high turnover rates. Officers in charge of protecting the White House say they have grown resentful at being belittled by their bosses and routinely forced to work on off-days. Some agents who have sworn to take a bullet for the president and his family have little faith in the wisdom or direction of their senior-most leaders. Those chronic woes have been amplified in recent days by revelations of a string of humiliating security lapses that have raised concerns about the president’s safety and prompted the agency’s biggest crisis since President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton three decades ago.
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Breaking News: U.S. Secret Service Director Resigns
Is The U.S. Secret Service Failing To Protect President Obama?
Is The White House Safe?
My Comment: As I had mentioned in a previous post .... the U.S. Secret Service has become dysfunctional .... and now everyone knows it.
Update: The stories and secrets are now becoming public ....
Secret Service Requires Female Agents to Meet Lower Physical Strength Standards Than Male Agents -- Weekly Standard
What’s the secret to Valerie Jarrett’s security detail? -- Chicago Sun Times
4 comments:
Wheels up rings off.
Yes they have a problem. It is a special sociological problem that you see in other professions.
President Bush took pains to make that problem easier for the SS. For example he stayed in the White house Christmas day and Christmas Eve.
People want to solve the ills of society and they overlook the problems besetting groups like these. I can think of 4 such groups.
There are generals literally wondering why there is so much drama.
On top of tech degrees and other degrees maybe some of them should have degrees in psychology and sociology.
Diversity is important but not how most people promote it.
This is what happens when you replaced skilled leadership with political hacks and replace a climate of competence with one of political correctness.
You see the exact same thing happening across the US Military and every other sector where Liberals come to power. Like Academia.
Orion
Orion,
I hear you and I agree.
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I may not have been clear. I meant diversity of profession/education. Many professions s economists, engineering have or have been accused to have blinders. I have seen one corporation fortune 50 state exactly that they saw diversity in the different professions. You learn a discipline and you just start seeing the world differently. You learn more than 1 and you might easily relate, to other professions. It is not necessary but it helps.
Department within a corporation have said to be like silos and not talk with one another.
I have seen generals wonder about the love triangles and other drama in their command which resulted in much drama and disciplinary procedures. Part of it is that they are people,, part of it is that they are young people, but part of it is the nature of the business to some significant degree. That is what I was getting at. They should be able to measure it. You can measure anything.
Not saying it would be easy to come up with a measure.
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