Biden's Transition Team Demands Change In The Secret Service Presidential Detail Due To Concerns Over Trump Loyalists

US Secret Service agents open the door to Joe Biden's vehicle before he boards his campaign plane. ©REUTERS / Tom Brenner 

The Hill: Secret Service making changes to presidential detail amid concerns current members are aligned with Trump: report 

The Secret Service is planning to add a number of agents that previously worked with President-elect Joe Biden when he served as vice president to his presidential detail in the coming weeks, The Washington Post reported. 

While it’s not unusual for staffing changes to be made to the presidential detail when a new administration assumes office, the moves come as allies of the incoming president have expressed concerns about how some agents may align with President Trump, the Post noted. 

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WNU Editor: Everyone has biases. But in my experience a professional will not let his/her biases or prejudices compromise the work. When I look at the Secret Service. The agents who make up the Presidential detail have always struck me as people who are professional to the extreme and will take a bullet for the President. 

Speaking of President Trumps' Secret Service detail. Many have requested to be on his detail when he leaves for Florida at the end of his term. 

 More News On Biden's Transition Team Demanding Changes In The Secret Service Presidential Detail Due To Concerns Over Trump Loyalists 

Secret Service to make changes to presidential detail to bring on agents who worked with Biden -- Washington Post 

Joe Biden to have new Secret Service team amid concern about Trump loyalty -- The Guardian

Secret Service adding former Biden agents to new presidential detail -- CNN 

Biden transition team demands change in Secret Service presidential detail due to concerns over Trump loyalists -- Post Millennial 

Secret Service brings back old guard for Biden's comfort 'amid concerns' over Trump loyalists in ranks – media -- RT

Secret Service 'Stopped Several Assassination Plots Against Romney And Obama During Election Campaign

How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney -- Marc Ambinder, GQ

At some point, early Wednesday morning, when Gov. Mitt Romney and family were tucked into bed, a quiet call went out on the radio channel used by his Secret Service agents: "Javelin, Jockey details, all posts, discontinue."

Of all the indignities involved in losing a presidential race, none is more stark than the sudden emptiness of your entourage. The Secret Service detail guarding Governor Romney since Feb 1. stood down quickly. He had ridden in a 15-car motorcade to the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for his concession speech. He rode in a single-car motorcade back across the Charles River to Belmont. His son, Tagg, did the driving.

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More News On Reports That The Secret Service 'Stopped Several Assassination Plots Against Romney And Obama During Election Campaign'

Secret Service said to have foiled several assassination attempts on President Obama and Mitt Romney during the campaign, but report is under scrutiny -- New York Daily News
Revealed: How Secret Service 'Stopped Several Assassination Plots Against Romney And Obama During Election Campaign' -- Daily Mail
Secret Service Reportedly Thwarted ‘Several Assassination Plots’ During the Presidential Campaign -- Politicker
Several assassination attempts on Obama, Romney ‘nipped in bud’ during campaign -- Zee News

My Comment: Marc Ambinder wanted to focus his story on how the Secret Service discontinues it's protection detail when the candidate loses .... but I suspect that he is surprised that the focus is (instead) on his comments that assassination attempts were thwarted.

The Obama's Thank The Secret Service

'You Just Tell Me When And Where To Run': Michelle Obama Visits Secret Service And Reveals Her Kids Fight Over Their Favourite Agents -- Daily Mail

This is what passes for dinner table conversation in the Obama White House:

Sasha wants Scott. So does Malia. The first lady wants Beth. So does Barack.

Turns out everyone's fighting over who gets which Secret Service agent.

Michelle Obama revealed the tongue-in-cheek family feud as she paid a visit to Secret Service headquarters on Wednesday to thank workers at the agency that, among its many duties, protects the first family.

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More News On The first Lady's Visit To The Secret Service HQ

First lady delivers thank-you to Secret Service -- AP
Michelle Obama visits Secret Service HQ -- UPI
Michelle Obama tells Secret Service: 'Just tell me when — where to run' -- Politico
First Lady Jokes That Her Daughters Fight Over Secret Service Detail -- ABC News
Michelle Obama thanks the Secret Service -- USA Today
Michelle Obama visits Secret Service to express thanks for family’s protection -- Washington Post

The Press Calls This 'Traveling Light' !?!?!?!

Protection: Cadillac One, also known as The Beast, has five-inch thick bulletproof glass, tyres that can't be burst and an anti-biological warfare system to keep the President safe

Traveling Light, Obama-Style: 20-Vehicle Convoy, SWAT Team, Air Force One And Nuclear Codes Accompany Him On Holiday -- The Daily Mail

Most families go on holiday to get away from it all, to forget work and responsibilities and day-to-day worries.

For Barack and Michelle Obama, there has been no such escape since taking their daughters for a 10-day holiday on the exclusive island of Martha's Vineyard.

Accompanied by legions of secret service agents, aides, medical staff and friends, the 'first family' have had their every move followed by press and fans as they stay on a rented farm.

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My Comment: Memo to the Daily Mail. If this entourage to protect the President is 'light' .... what is 'heavy'?

How The Secret Service Defends The Commander in Chief )Photo Gallery)

President Barack Obama looks through binoculars as he tours the Secret Service's James J. Rowley Training Center in Beltsville, Md., April 30, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

WNU Editor: For more pictures of how the President is protected, go here. For the complete archive on how President Obama is protected, go here.

Hat Tip: Extra Good Shit

Protecting The Commander In Chief

A U.S. Secret Service vehicle follows Air Force One as it taxis to take-off from Andrews Air Force Base, Md. , Wednesday, April 7, 2010. President Obama is headed to Prague to sign the New START treaty with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. AP

WNU Editor: A great set of pictures showing the protection detail for a traveling President of The United States. The link is here.

Cryptome also has an excellent collection of pictures of the Times Square car bomber interrogation site. That link is here.

Hat Tip (to both): Extra Good Shit

Secret Service Defends Shoe Response

From The Washington Post:

The U.S. Secret Service yesterday defended its agents' response to an Iraqi journalist who threw a pair of shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad news conference, saying that they acted with the proper balance of aggressiveness and restraint.

Eric Zahren, a Secret Service spokesman in Washington, also said it will be up to Iraqi officials to prosecute Muntadar al-Zaidi, the journalist arrested in Sunday's incident.

"No one should read anything more into it than what it was, which was an individual throwing a shoe," Zahren said.

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Update #1: Iraq to probe 'custody abuse' of Bush shoe assailant -- Breitbart/AFP