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| New Secret Service Head Joe Clancy Personally Led Obama Security |
| 2014-10-02 |
| [NBCNEWS] Joe Clancy, the man in charge of cleaning up the Secret Service after a series of embarrassing security gaffes, is the ideal person to lead the agency through troubled waters, Washington insiders said Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security named Clancy, director of corporate security for Comcast Corp., as interim acting director of the Secret Service after Julia Pierson resigned Wednesday. He retired from the agency in July 2011 as special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, a role for which he was well-regarded. "I'm very pleased," Rep. Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... , D-Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee, told NBC News. "He is a person the president has utmost confidence in -- he will take a bullet for him." Because of the nature of the agency, not a great deal is known about Clancy's Secret Service career, but his face should be familiar to the American people -- he's the balding man walking behind the president and his family in hundreds of pictures of the First Family during the first 2½ years of the B.O. regime. "I knew Joe Clancy when he led the presidential detail," David Axelrod ...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O.Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out.... , one of Obama's oldest friends and longest-serving advisers, said on Twitter. "You could not find a better person to repair the Secret Service." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 So he is the head of the Praetorian guard. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-10-02 13:31 |
| #4 ed, I have noticed a disproportionate amount of suspicious queries on my web server from Comcast. Seems to me a responsible internet service provider would be a little more diligent about watching for infected computers on their subnet. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-10-02 12:27 |
| #3 Come on Ed. The dude was in the Governance and FCC Compliance business for Comcast. You know he's qualified to guard the US Treasury. He also apparently has a strong self-preservation instinct: walking behind the president |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-02 11:03 |
| #2 "director of corporate security for Comcast Corp" That's an ominous point that speaks volumes right there. Director of Security for a company that (A) doesn't give a damn what the customer thinks and (B) has crap security (netwise) to boot. A solid management decision. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-02 07:27 |
| #1 Bald or dreadlocks, doesn't make a damn to me. Can he think for himself, and does he have the power to TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT of incompetent, disloyal, or lazy personnel? That is the important question. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-02 06:08 |