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

[Ramsey Barner]

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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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Their mission is to protect not follow candidate's order to pose for cameras in a crisis

[RainCaster]

2. currently there are too many Trumpanzees

That means a lack of critical thinking skills.

[travelingthrulife]

3. Secret Service just needs to learn how to say, "No" to The Don

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

[keithbvadu2]

4. Another theory of the 'assassination' attempt?. It was a false flag operation by Trump.

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]

5. Maybe cut back on t45s financial abuse?

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]

6. USSS has history of problems going back years. They do need a massive shake-up.

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]

7. This is all their people. This is all their stupid talk shows.

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.