Secret Service Looks Worse--and More Guilty--Every Day

When your best defense is that the most elite protection agency in the world is less competent than the police from a department with fewer than 20 people, perhaps it's time to go with a different strategy for explaining how a kid took a shot at the once and future president. 

In a tried and true "bury the news" strategy, Interim Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe held a relatively late Friday news conference in which he did the "we accept full responsibility" tapdance without taking any responsibility at all, revealing much new information, and most of all explaining how what little he told us was remotely possible in an agency funded by $3 billion with the job to protect high-value targets. 

Here are just a few inexplicable things he revealed:

• the Secret Service had no radio communications not only with the local police but also with the snipers
• most of the vital communications were made using texts over an overloaded cell phone network
• There are no recordings of the Secret Service communications, although there are of the locals
• Rowe's assertions about the responsibilities of the local snipers didn't actually come from the local snipers--it was just made up by the Secret Service (we would know much less were it not for the locals)
• the Secret Service command center was not co-located with the local police
• The investigators have YET to talk to the local police who were assisting the SS, including the snipers (after three weeks!)
• Butler was the VERY FIRST TIME that the Secret Service provided snipers for a Trump rally this election cycle
• hmm, on that last one...

GO READ THE WHOLE THING. 

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