![]() And now we're at the stage where alarms and sensors on the fence line at the White House that should be the most secure 18-acre compound in the world are on the fritz and allowing people to jump in and spend time uninterrupted on that campus. One tiny, tiny little agency that became sort of the redheaded stepchild in the huge Department of Homeland Security was the Secret Service. Our country spent billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars, protecting us from terror in the skies, so that we fly safely everywhere we want, and protecting us from terror at our borders and our ports. ![]() ![]() The second thing that's happened is that the service has been shortchanged, horribly shortchanged since 9/11. And some of those secrets are important to keep, like how we keep the president from inhaling anthrax, but the secret part of the Secret Service has been abused by some small subset of Secret Service agents, and especially the leadership, to cover up vulnerabilities, to cover up mistakes, and to cover up sort of gross misconduct that none of us in America would tolerate in any law enforcement team, much less the most elite one that protects our democracy. ![]() The first is that the Secret Service keeps a lot of secrets. ![]() You know, there are two major things that sort of brought the downfall of the Secret Service, the state that it's in now, where agents are whispering to me that they're worried about a president being killed on their watch. ![]()
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