US Secret Service in Turmoil

[Chef Ramsay]

The resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson and the launch of a top-to-bottom review of the agency Wednesday are an acknowledgment by President Obama of what he has long denied: that the force charged with protecting him is in deep turmoil and struggling to fulfill its sacred mission.

The 6,700-member agency, long an elite class of skilled professionals who prized their jobs, now suffers from diminished luster and historically high turnover rates. Officers in charge of protecting the White House say they have grown resentful at being belittled by their bosses and routinely forced to work on off-days. Some agents who have sworn to take a bullet for the president and his family have little faith in the wisdom or direction of their senior-most leaders. Those chronic woes have been amplified in recent days by revelations of a string of humiliating security lapses that have raised concerns about the president’s safety and prompted the agency’s biggest crisis since President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton three decades ago.

Joseph Clancy, a retired agent who served as the head of Obama’s protective detail briefly after the president was first elected, was named to take over on a temporary basis. He will serve as a caretaker while a full review is conducted and until a permanent replacement can be found.

“Replacing the director is a good start in the right direction,” said Dan Emmett, a former ­counterassault team leader and Secret Service agent. But, he added, “replacing the director will not be effective unless the entire upper management is replaced. Otherwise it will just be business as usual.”

More...http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pierson-failed-to-provide-fresh-start-for-secret-service-that-administration-wanted/2014/10/01/51a642a2-49a8-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html

The latest issue was the man wielding the knife that scaled the fence and actually made it into the White House before being eventually tackled by an offduty agent. This broad running the agency had to go and she resembled much of what the other agency heads are guilty of: incompetence and/or political correctness.

[kuusj98]

They should do a great reorganisation.

It is hard to beleve for me, that mister "oh so great" needs some 6000+ guards around him. Heck, how much would it even safe the government a year to fire 90%?
Total bullshit.

[username18333]

The resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson and the launch of a top-to-bottom review of the agency Wednesday are an acknowledgment by President Obama of what he has long denied: that the force charged with protecting him is in deep turmoil and struggling to fulfill its sacred mission.

The 6,700-member agency, long an elite class of skilled professionals who prized their jobs, now suffers from diminished luster and historically high turnover rates. Officers in charge of protecting the White House say they have grown resentful at being belittled by their bosses and routinely forced to work on off-days. Some agents who have sworn to take a bullet for the president and his family have little faith in the wisdom or direction of their senior-most leaders. Those chronic woes have been amplified in recent days by revelations of a string of humiliating security lapses that have raised concerns about the president’s safety and prompted the agency’s biggest crisis since President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton three decades ago.

Joseph Clancy, a retired agent who served as the head of Obama’s protective detail briefly after the president was first elected, was named to take over on a temporary basis. He will serve as a caretaker while a full review is conducted and until a permanent replacement can be found.

“Replacing the director is a good start in the right direction,” said Dan Emmett, a former ­counterassault team leader and Secret Service agent. But, he added, “replacing the director will not be effective unless the entire upper management is replaced. Otherwise it will just be business as usual.”

More...http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pierson-failed-to-provide-fresh-start-for-secret-service-that-administration-wanted/2014/10/01/51a642a2-49a8-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html

The latest issue was the man wielding the knife that scaled the fence and actually made it into the White House before being eventually tackled by an offduty agent. This broad running the agency had to go and she resembled much of what the other agency heads are guilty of: incompetence and/or political correctness.

"...the force charged with protecting him is in deep turmoil..."

Five Eyes was doing fine, last time I checked.

[toleng]

I think the problem stems from the president. He does not have any leadership experience. He likely is not strict about people following procedures and the rules. When the person at the top does not require that all procedures be followed the other leaders below the president will become even more lax about procedures being followed and before you know it you have agents doing whatever they want when they are on duty

[Fabrizio89]

May be because of this? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2hiywp/the_expose_about_the_fed_is_here_secret/
Maybe more agents didn't want to be part of this charade anymore and they had no other option than replacing them and starting interviews from top to bottom to understand if there were more people who could cause problems in the future.