Politico: Is Obama’s assassination is the only thing that can save the Secret Service? [View all]

[Blue_Tires]

A controversial column in Politico claims that the Secret Service is being grossly mismanaged and that ultimately President Barack Obama is to blame.

The piece, titled “Something is Rotten in the Secret Service,” was published Tuesday. Author and former Washington Post reporter Ronald Kessler speculated that with the detail charged with protecting the president is such a state of disarray, “Five terrorists could come into the White House with grenades and wipe him out.”

“Agents tell me it’s a miracle an assassination has not already occurred,” Kessler wrote. “Sadly, given Obama’s colossal lack of management judgment, that calamity may be the only catalyst that will reform the Secret Service.”

Kessler — who has written books about the Secret Service, the FBI and a 2004 book praising Pres. George W. Bush called A Matter of Character — lays the blame for recent Secret Service mishaps and oversights squarely at the feet of the agency’s first woman director, Julia Pierson.

Pierson’s leadership, he argued, has rendered the agency “arrogant” and reckless. She punishes competence, he said, and rewards her lackeys for not contradicting her narrative.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/politico-is-obamas-assassination-is-the-only-thing-that-can-save-the-secret-service/