Maybe morale is low...because they hold their protectees in such low esteem. ~ Unhyphenated America weeklystandard/articles/scrapbook-vs-secret-service_823824.html The next morning, as we reflected on the evening’s adventure, we turned to the front page of the Washington Post (Jan. 15) and saw this headline—“Secret Service to remove four senior leaders”—and read this sentence: “The departures of six out of the agency’s eight assistant directors follows a scathing report last month by a [Department of Homeland Security] appointed panel that concluded the agency is suffering from low morale among the rank-and-file and is ‘starved for leadership.’ ” Of course, The Scrapbook cannot say whether the rank-and-file of the Secret Service suffers from low morale—it was difficult to gauge the mood of those bellowing guards—but it is fair to say that the nation’s capital has been suffering low morale at the hands of the Secret Service. “Security” now guarantees that pedestrians cannot walk from one place to another without being barred, at some point, from proceeding; and downtown traffic is daily paralyzed by banana republic-sized motorcades and widespread lockdowns. The lives of working Washingtonians, official and unofficial, are routinely disrupted—held hostage in traffic or rudely corralled—so that Joe Biden or Valerie Jarrett gets to lunch on time.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:30:15 +0000
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