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LiberalArkie

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12. I would like to see the secret service just go back to currency protection and

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed Oct 1, 2014, 09:13 PM

Oct 2014

have a separate presidential protective service that has the sole obligation of protection of the president and family and vice president and family. I would go so far to say that it would be budgeted out of the DOD just to make sure that someone would not try to cut the funding.

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first step to fixing the Secret Service: Pull it out of dysfunctional Dept of Homeland Security. [View all] cali Oct 2014 OP

I cannot agree more. MohRokTah Oct 2014 #1

Interestingly one of the original functions of the Secret Service was with the Treasury Department madinmaryland Oct 2014 #3

Homeland Security Lamonte Oct 2014 #16

I sent THEM there to put Common Sense in to Homeland security . orpupilofnature57 Oct 2014 #2

Yep! Little Star Oct 2014 #4

"Homeland" needs to go too. I think of old Europe when I hear it...Ugh...n/t monmouth3 Oct 2014 #5

I think of cows on a plate in print. Ackety. lonestarnot Oct 2014 #8

I Agree, Ma'am The Magistrate Oct 2014 #6

Yes. Continue to debush everything possible while still possible. lonestarnot Oct 2014 #7

DHS was always a failure MFrohike Oct 2014 #9

While we're at it, can we free the Coast Guard, too? Bette Noir Oct 2014 #10

Yes. DHS is a malicious boondoggle at best. n/t DirkGently Oct 2014 #11

I would like to see the secret service just go back to currency protection and LiberalArkie Oct 2014 #12

exactly, put it back in treasury. pronto. spanone Oct 2014 #13

The very first thing today. Absolutely. marble falls Oct 2014 #14

an interesting dynamic jobendorfer Oct 2014 #15

So, Obama inherited Bush's Secret Service. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #17