SS Agent=idiot

[CS1983]

I would never take a bullet for a politician of any party or office. We are setup in this country for next man up.

No, but I just don't understand why anyone would either.

99.9% of politicians are scum, but that's not the point.

The point is that if politicians are able to just be killed willy nilly with no protection, particularly the president, you could quickly end up with a Banana Republic situation or a major dictatorship because eventually the screws will tighten on that sort of thing. The other possibility is that you end up with people doing political things out of fear (as opposed to our current system of simple bribe..err.. lobbying).

The USSS and organizations like it, including your basic cops acting as bodyguards for a mayor or whatever, do so because at the end of the day it's not about the person they are protecting, but the office they are protecting.

I know a retired Secret Service agent. She was tasked with VP detail during Clinton/Gore and Bush/Cheney. She despises the Clintons, the Gores and that whole lot of folks from that administration. She preferred the Bush admin as people, considered as such. But her job was to protect the VP and his family -- not because they are worth it as people (they're scum), but because of what their assassination would have represented to the system of a Constitutional Republic (dead) we (supposedly) have.

In other words, it's not a micro reason, subjectively focused; it's a macro reason, objectively focused.

What the USSS agent in the article did was lose her objective focus and make it about the person, and that's decidedly bad. She needs to get fired.

[cstone]

Unofficial motto of the US Secret Service - "You elect them, We protect them."

No one takes a bullet for anyone. Bullets are fast. No amount of training will enable you to be faster. If you get shot while doing your job, you are not having a good day, but the people you are protecting are probably having a better day than you. Cover and evacuate.

I predict that someone is already receiving some career counseling with very few choices (none of them good) being offered. Just a hunch.

Be safe.

[roberth]

Thank you MODFATHER, that is reassuring.

[Doc45]

Tim McCarthy exemplified the mindset/training that is necessary for agents on the Protective Detail. Jerry Parr (RIP) knew what he had to do and did it as well. The actions of both men saved President Reagan's life. Obviously O'Grady doesn't have the fortitude for the job, kick her the hell out.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...thy-new-agents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...e28_story.html

[Aloha_Shooter]

On the bright side, maybe she can now empathize with the men and women in the armed forces who detested Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama (and probably Bush as well) but nevertheless did their duty -- including, in some cases, dying in places or for causes they didn't agree with.

[DavieD55]

What a piece of garbage.

[yankeefan98121]

Update:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...port-says.html

At least it didn't get swept under the rug

[Shooter45]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out...

[Irving]

Looks like she'll take a pink slip for Trump.

[DavieD55]

They'll give that communist mole a posh retirement from the SS and then she'll wind up running one of the major universities where she will get to spew her liberal socialist dogma all day for a six figure income.