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Government Corruption

The Secret Service Shows The Way – Cleaning House

2025-01-25

[AND Substack] New Secret Service Director Sean Curran cleaned house on Friday. Ten senior officials in the agency were told to resign, retire, or face being reassigned. Curran is one of the Secret Service agents who surrounded Trump following the Butler assassination attempt. He is a career Secret Service agent with extensive experience in the Presidential Protective Division.

Curran’s action in making immediate changes to senior leadership in the Secret Service shows decisiveness. It also shows he understands the fundamental challenge that will face all of Trump’s appointees to positions heading law enforcement and intelligence agencies. A leadership change at the top will in and of itself fix nothing. These agencies have to be taken down to the studs and rebuilt.

We have a crisis of competency. The Secret Service demonstrated this to the entire world in Butler. An emotionally disturbed young man with a commonly available rifle and no training of any kind secured an elevated firing position within easy range of the stage on which Trump was speaking — in broad daylight — and nobody did anything about it until after he had come within a hair’s breadth of killing the man who is now President.

Did DEI initiatives play a role in that? Without question. Were there personnel on-site effectively masquerading as Secret Service who had no business being there? Certainly. But the list of failures on the part of the Secret Service on that one day alone is almost endless. A team of randomly selected local men from the surrounding area could have done a better job of protecting Trump than his "protective detail" did.

I suspect a team of middle aged, suburban housewives with the usual exposure to American popular culture (novels, tv shows, movies) could have done a better job.

You don’t get to the point where such catastrophic failures are possible without years of rot. Standards have fallen. People who have no business doing so are serving on details. Training has been so diluted as to be virtually meaningless. During the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life, the Secret Service agent who discovered the would-be shooter fired 6 times from five feet away and could not hit his target. Is there a more basic skill for a member of a protective detail than the use of his firearm?

Posted by:Frank G

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Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-25 15:06

#2 Curran’s assignment to Trump’s detail likely meant that he was outside the power structure of the organization. The assignment probably wasn’t a punishment, but I surmise that he wasn’t connected to powerful people like Cheatle was. If he was being punished, he would have been assigned Hillary or Michelle.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-01-25 13:33

#1 Shit rolls downhill.

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-25 13:17

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