October 1, 2014, - 6:02 pm
Julia Pierson: As Incompetent Secret Service Chick Chief Resigns
I’m not surprised that incompetent Secret Service chieftess Julia Pierson resigned. I’m just surprised it took this long. As I noted her prime “qualifications” for the job were being a woman and having a Billie Jean King brush cut (which she wasted all this money on getting blow-dried yesterday)). And even though Pierson resigned, this is about a culture of incompetence and fear at the Secret Service. The next head of the agency probably won’t be able to clean it up. It’s about an entire country–not just a law enforcement agency–that doesn’t take national security threats seriously. And it’s about a government dominated by political correctness and affirmative action, not the safety and well-being of its citizens.
Yesterday’s hearings on the White House intruder brought to light more on the Washington Post story that, in 2011, shots were fired at the White House and nobody knew about it, until a White House maid found broken glass from one of the windows in the residence days after the attack. How on earth does that happen? How could shots be fired at the White House and the Secret Service not know until a maid told them several days later? Ridiculous. While Pierson didn’t head the Secret Service at the time, she was the highest ranking agent in the agency then.
In addition to the Gonzalez breach, they pressed the director on recent disclosures about a 2011 shooting incident that the Secret Service failed to recognize as an attack on the White House until days later. An account of that incident was first reported Sunday by The Washington Post. In a tense exchange with Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., about the shooting, Pierson acknowledged that evidence of the gunfire was not discovered until three or four days after the attack.Ultimately, a White House housekeeper discovered broken glass — damage left by multiple rounds from a high-powered rifle — along the iconic Truman Balcony.
“Can you tell me why a housekeeper found the evidence and your agents did not?” Gowdy asked. “Why not search every inch of the White House? This is just processing a crime scene; this is not high math. Why wasn’t it done?”
“It was not as thorough as it needed to be,” Pierson conceded. The director later said she was particularly “troubled” by recent reports about a young Secret Service officer who was on duty during the 2011 shooting and heard the gunfire. The officer told investigators reviewing the incident that she did not challenge her supervisors’ order to disregard the incident as a false alarm because she feared possible criticism.
This is how “conscientiously” the formerly “elite” U.S. Secret Service agency protects the President. You can extrapolate from that how unprotected we are as a country.
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She should be ashamed of herself. Julie Myers too for that matter. Their mere presence, in & of itself is a distraction to the mission at hand. Not to mention, the lack of ability and the negative toll it has on employee morale. There were a handful of deserving and qualified men who didn’t get this position, because she did.
#1 Vato on October 1, 2014 at 6:29 pm