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from https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/16/secret-service-embodies-bidens-governing-philosophy-n3791864

Secret Service Embodies Biden's Governing Philosophy
DAVID STROM 12:40 PM | July 16, 2024

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
The Secret Service failed spectacularly. It was epic, the scale of the
failure.

Only by the grace of God did the likely next president of the United
States not get his head blown off by an inexperienced kid who the police
saw acting suspiciously, who climbed on the roof of a building in which
snipers were stationed, in full view of people screaming he was there,
and who got off multiple shots that killed a bystander and hit the
former president.

Sometimes, failures happen despite everybody doing their job as well as
could be expected; this was different from those times. No system is
perfect; this system was amateur hour. Pathetic.

The problem, as far as we know, was not that the individual agents
failed to do their jobs; perhaps some did, but a good system creates
layers of overlap to make it resilient to the inevitable human foibles.

This was a systems failure, and systems are the responsibility of those
at the top.

Well, the top cops are pure Biden: blaming others, taking no
responsibility, and neither resigning nor getting fired. Generals can
botch the withdrawal from Afghanistan without consequences. Pete
Buttigieg can take leave during a worldwide crisis in the supply chain. Mayorkas can open the floodgates on the border and get praise.

No level of failure has consequences. This is Bidenworld, after all,
where a president that nobody likes or thinks is competent can believe
he is headed to a massive electoral victory because he is the most consequential president since FDR.

Kimberly Cheatle--who heads the Secret Service because, apparently, she
is friendly with the First Lady, says "the buck stops" with her--and
then goes on to blame the local police, as if they were in charge of the
former president's security.

NEW: Secret Service director Kim Cheatle, good friend of Jill Biden and
the new face of America's competency crisis, didn't post snipers on the
roof where Trump was shot at because it was a sloped roof and she was
afraid someone might slip and fall.

You can't make this stuff up.

Blaming the locals. Very on-brand. The person in charge was chosen by
Jill Biden. Super on-brand, as she is the next Edith Wilson.

"In this particular instance, we did share support for that particular
site and that the Secret Service was responsible for the inner
perimeter," Cheatle said. "And then we sought assistance from our local counterparts for the outer perimeter. There was local police in that
building -- there was local police in the area that were responsible for
the outer perimeter of the building."

She will not resign, of course, because it is not her fault. The buck
stopping with her is her government paycheck, not responsibility for the protection of Donald Trump.

The Secret Service was informed of the suspicious nature of the shooter
nearly a half hour before the first shots, yet nothing was done.

He pulled out a rangefinder(!) in front of police, who reported it to
their superiors, yet nothing was done.

There were three snipers stationed inside the building the shooter used
during Saturday's shooting of former President Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the incident tells CBS News.

The operations plan had them stationed inside the building looking out
windows toward the Trump rally. The information about the three snipers
being inside the building was first reported by BeaverCountian.com.

One of the snipers inside saw Thomas Matthew Crooks outside and looking
up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, a local law enforcement officer tells CBS News.

Crooks came back, sat down and looked at his phone. At that point, one
of the snipers took a picture of him. Crooks took out a rangefinder and
the sniper radioed to the command post. Crooks disappeared again and
then came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in with information that he had a backpack and said he was walking towards the
back of the building.

Officers believe that Crooks might have used an air conditioning unit to
get on top of the roof.

By the time other officers came for backup, he had climbed on top of the building and was positioned above and behind the snipers inside the
building, the officer said.

As I said, a SPECTACULAR failure.


But Mayorkas has full confidence in Cheatle. Unbelievable.

President Biden insists he has talked with the Director of the Secret
Service but doesn't even know she is female.


Absolutely nothing Biden does or is in charge of is competently
executed. $8 billion for EV chargers results in no EV chargers. Billions
for internet access for rural areas? Nobody connected. Starlink is ready
to go, but since Elon Musk owns it, it was cut out of the program. Politics.

Biden and his cronies are responsible for so much damage and take responsibility for none of it.

As I said, very on-brand.

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