OK, Obama dumped the head of secret service and appointed a new old guy. Name escapes me, despite a lotta TV coverage I haven't cuaght his name yet. Not a good sign.
Clearly Secret Service has some problems, fence jumpers making to the East Room, agents on trips getting drunk and laid, ex-con with a gun riding the elevator with the president.
I'd guess these problems come from ineffective supervisors, officers we called 'em in the military, dunno what the secret service calls 'em. To fix things, you gotta fire the ineffective supervisors and replace them with good people. Will the new guy (who is retired secret service and ought to know the people) be able to fire the inefficient? On his own say-so? Fairly quickly, like within a few weeks rather than after years of hearings and appeals? Does secret service have a union to protect the guilty? Are they under civil service, which basically forbids firing even for very strong cause?
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