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Originally Posted by graciegirl
It is good to hear these real things. The Secret Service is recently getting a black eye for their shenanigans accompanying the president.
I will be looking forward to reading this book. Thank you Carl.
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Retired USSS Agent Dan Emmett has had an article appear on the Washington Post Opinion Page in which he blames the aberrant behavior of some Secret Service personnel while on protective assignments on failed leadership. He calls for "... a general purge of some top-level managers through forced retirement."
Emmett lays a major part of the blame for alleged USSS leadership problems to the move of the agency from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security.
"From its creation until shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Secret Service fell under the Treasury Department, where
it operated efficiently and largely unencumbered. However, after Osama bin Laden attacked America, the Secret Service became part of the Department of Homeland Security —
a massive and nightmarish new federal bureaucracy. In this environment, many young and ill-prepared agents were
promoted to positions of management far too early in their careers to supervise a significant number of new positions. Today, many of those agents who were promoted too soon are at the highest levels of the Secret Service."
He also opines, "...the next director should come from outside the agency, rather than rising up through the rank and file. When drastic changes are needed, it is difficult for someone who is friends with almost everyone in headquarters to make objective decisions. In this case, the agency needs someone with no allegiances to top-level managers."
There is a whole lot more to the article at;
Alcohol isn’t the Secret Service’s problem. Lousy leadership is. - The Washington Post