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Public Nuisances
I Take the Secret Service Scandal Personally
Where is its Elmer Washburn?
WASHINGTON — When you have a young woman screaming in a hallway about some sort of grievance she has with you, you have a problem. Even a Secret Service agent, surrounded by his buddies, has a problem. I know about this sort of thing from my work in the archives pursuant to my researches as a presidential historian.
One thinks back to the late 1940s of Elizabeth Bentley, an American spying for the Soviet Union. She raised an intolerable ruckus outside a hotel room with one, possibly two, Soviet intelligence operatives — both male. Her involvement with one had been romantic, but the cad let her down. Possibly he did not pay for her turkey sandwich. Possibly he left other bills cooling on the table. At any rate, there was hell to pay. She had a set of lungs on her like a bull moose and a face to boot. When she let out a yell it was deafening. Of course, the Russians were terrified. Shortly thereafter she renounced Communism, and they were glad to get back to Stalin’s Russia.
Another example is more recent, and in this the Secret Service was almost without doubt innocent. Miss Monica Lewinsky was left to cool her heels in a White House gatehouse while her truelove dallied with another vamp. She caught on and fumed. She looked menacingly at the furniture. The Secret Service is trained for dangerous operations, but this was close to the limit. Luckily she was admitted to the White House before she did real damage, but then all hell broke loose for poor Bill. It is a mistake to toy with an irascible woman, even an irascible woman of easy virtue.
I do not know the details of the imbroglio involving the Secret Service agent who attempted to stiff the Colombian cutie on her bill in steamy Cartagena. We shall have to await Hollywood’s treatment of it, but he acted very unwisely. We do know that as many as ten other Secret Service agents, along with members of the military, were playing animal house with him. They apparently planned to party when they landed in Colombia. One agent even took a girl back to the hotel where the president was to stay a few days later. This suggests that the event was not isolated. Apparently a whole culture of laxness has descended upon the once proud Secret Service. I cannot imagine such goings on during the Reagan years, when I was familiar with the President’s bodyguards. They were conscientious to the utmost, and, as they proved, brave. I had them and something like 240 other guards and White House personnel in and around my home when the President came to dinner in 1988. They were the best.
What has happened and when did it start? Did it begin with Bill Clinton? I rather think so. One of the Arkansas state troopers with whom I became familiar suggested as much. He was a well-educated man and at one time a friend of Bill’s. He told me, “Clinton’s treating his Secret Service detail the way he treated his Arkansas trooper detail.” My friend was referring to Clinton’s propensity for giving his bodyguards the “residuals,” the women that he had tired of or that did not measure up.
I have known Secret Service agents as far back as the Nixon years. They were always first rate and straight as an arrow. They were devoted to their principal. I remember when Spiro Agnew had to leave the vice-presidency, his Secret Service detail on their off-hours moved his effects from his office. I doubt such loyalty is practiced today. A source for The American Spectator tells the indefatigable Jeffrey Lord that owing to Liberal bugaboos such as affirmative action for minorities and women, “the bar was lowered significantly. Now that affects ALL hires of the Service regardless of race.” As a consequence, when combined with “the societal attitudes of the latest generations and their general lack of education, commitment and reality,” the result is a “dumbed down” agency. And our source goes on to say Cartagena was “only the tip of the iceberg.”
Can the Secret Service recover? Some are calling this scandal the worst in its history. Actually the Secret Service was born of scandal. Thomas Craughwell tells us in his book, Stealing Lincoln’s Body, that the agency was set up in 1865 to combat counterfeiting. Half the paper money in the Midwest was counterfeit. The Secret Service was successful in part because it hired as agents wayward counterfeiters. Such agents were great at putting the cuffs on active counterfeiters, but somehow the counterfeiters’ booty kept disappearing. The answer was to bring in incorruptible new leaders such as Chicago’s Chief of Police, Elmer Washburn, who brought with him his own kind of incorruptible agents, for instance, the agent who broke the plot by counterfeiters to steal President Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1876, Captain P. D. Tyrrell.
In a new biography of Lincoln’s son Robert, Giant in the Shadows, Jason Emerson demonstrates how under Washburn the Service arose from corruption and became a police force of the first rank. Tyrrell, my great-great-grandfather, though from remote Chicago, became “one of the service’s most outstanding operatives and later in his career would be considered one of the most distinguished law-enforcement officers in the country.” You will understand why I, for one, am hoping for an Elmer Washburn to appear.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Appleby| 4.26.12 @ 7:15AM
Are we all looking forward to the day when the Tweetheads and Occupiers take over our jobs, and the whole world is run by toddlers whose first experience of the word NO is gained from a Saudi Prince or an Ayatullah?
Are some of us sincerely wondering if it's not a good thing after all that we won't be on the dock the day that ship comes in?
Doctor_X| 4.26.12 @ 7:23AM
Why are you surprised by this behavior? After all we glorify this type of behavior, just take a look at what is on T.V. On the TV show Mad Men the ad executives frequently buy prostitutes for clients and themselves. Then there are shows like The Client List which show prostitution as harmless and a legitimate means of making money. Look at the back page of any liberal weekly paper in any major town and it will be full of ads for “adult services”. The internet is full of the same types of ads and local police turn a blind eye towards it unless someone makes a fuss.
We are sending a mixed message, the media is telling us this behavior is acceptable while at the same time we know that if we’re no discrete we’ll have a high a price to pay for our indiscretion.
The agents will lose their jobs and most likely their families, that’s a high price to pay for their folly.
Gary B| 4.26.12 @ 12:01PM
Who did Howard Hughes hire to protect him? Mormons. He said they were the only ones he could trust. I guess he was right.
The Road Warrior| 4.26.12 @ 3:53PM
And look how he ended up...
Cpm| 4.26.12 @ 5:22PM
He was mentally ill. But the Mormons he hired to attend to him him were the reason we knew nothing about any of that or even where he was until well after he was dead. He was convinced they were incorruptable because they didn't drink, smoke, or cheat on their wives.
Jack in Wi.| 4.26.12 @ 7:15PM
I think his Mormon pals pretty well looted the estate. He was too ga ga to figure out what was going on.
Occam's Tool| 4.27.12 @ 12:48PM
He died intestate. There was a will which a man named Melvin Dumars left at a LDS church, but the Mormons did not "loot" the estate.
Jack, you are, as usual, a moron.
Beer f.m.h.| 4.26.12 @ 2:26PM
Well, on the other hand, stiffing the Columbian cutie may be the only instance we’ll see of anyone attempting to control spending in this government.
Minuteman78| 4.27.12 @ 7:50PM
Brilliant! And speaking of 'stiffs', you've doubtless heard the brilliant oratory from Vice President Gaffy Duck that President Obama 'does have a big stick.' Apparently Gaffy was trying to channel Teddy Roosevelt and channeled Larry Flynt instead.
If anything happened to Obama, watching Biden try to run the country would be funnier than a Frasier episode.
Jack in Wi.| 4.26.12 @ 7:13PM
The lady in question looks like the ex wife of an old pal of mine. He met her on the beach in Rio and it was instant love. He was 50 and she was 20 and a real knockout. Of course she cheated on him like crazy and the marriage ended when she got her citizenship and 100,000 dollars of his assets. The old fool still goes down to Rio and meets young girls there. He has several other geratritic sex tourists that he hangs around with. When I was in Rio last winter, with my wife he took me to cafe to meet these old guys. It is really sad. These old guys think the girls like them for who they are, not their wallets.
Occam's Tool| 4.27.12 @ 12:41PM
Prostitution ads IS the way the Liberal media pay for their existence.
All American American| 4.26.12 @ 8:04AM
This is the NORM. Whether its the Secretly Serviced, the military, the po-po--they ALL do it. Its worse the higher up the chain you go.
The really sad thing is these guys prolly got played by the Odumbo administration. They were prolly given free reign to get all the ho's they wanted, with a wink and a nod from the admin, who was just waiting for the right time to throw them under the bus.
Personally my hope is that this distraction isn't enough for folks to lose sight of all of Odumbo's failures, and I think it isn't.
Conservatives need to grow up. Stop worshiping the police and the military and the Secretly Serviced. At their core they are as fallible and prone to excess as the next human being. If you're looking for someone to rescue you, try the guy in the mirror. When it comes down to it he's about the only person you can really trust.
Cutch| 4.26.12 @ 8:15AM
Nail on head, smack. A badge or uniform is no assurance of a sense of duty, honor and country. It has never been, but at least these concepts were lauded in everyday life which had its effect on our psyche as children. Who thinks of knighthood these days?
Die Limbeckity, Die!| 4.26.12 @ 5:38PM
Oh give me a break. The fact that some Secret Service agents were going to strip clubs and paying for sex is somehow Obama's fault is ludicrous. And by the way All American American, "prolly" is NOT a word.
All American American| 4.26.12 @ 9:56PM
Didn't say it was Odumbo's fault, doosh. Try reading the psot, it'll prolly come clear to you. Frickin' 'tard.
TexasMom2012| 4.29.12 @ 2:58PM
Had a friend married to a SS agent. He said that the background checks uncovered your entire past and all of your associations no matter how casual. But that was the 80s, maybe that is no longer the case. Political correctness most likely ruined the caliber of agents accepted, and I agree that probably happened after Bush left office and the clintons took over.
BarocheDique | 4.26.12 @ 8:04AM
As a retired infantry paratrooper I know from experience that a leader, any leader, is responsible for everything that his troops do or fail to do (success as well as failure) and that a unit's discipline is a DIRECT REFLECTION of that leader's character. That is why I am not at all surprised by any of this. You hit the nail on the head Mr. Tyrrell - well done.
Mike 3/505| 4.26.12 @ 9:36AM
Well put. This generation has no clue about responsibility, personal or otherwise.
If the shoe fits| 4.27.12 @ 1:21AM
Why should they? Why should they "have a clue?"
You sit up late at night and laugh and guffaw at Jay Leno and David Letterman tell vibrator and dildo jokes on national TV and to studio audiences of a fair cross-section of America. Oops, correction, those audiences are mostly -- over age 40.
You don't chastise a two-decade cocaine addict named Whitney Houston and prefer to let your wife or sister get all weepy eyed at how we lost a true star. Who gave America "greats" like Anthony Wiener? Larry Craig? John Edwards? Mark Sanford? That politician with $88,000 cash in his home freezer? "This generation" did not elect Bill Clinton, the former Arkansas governor; they were old enough to be eligible to vote. Or if they could, whoooppeee, it was probably their very first time at the ballot box. Ballots don't usher in new presidents, MONEY DOES. "This generation" did not pay and pave the way for Bill and Hillary...and Monica.... and oral sex as household living room talk.
"This generation" has not bankrupted the nation and avoided all fiscal responsiblities while knowing that SS and Medicare WILL fail.
You seem to be talking about "this generation" and a deep, deep understanding of leadership.
Say what????
"This generation" is not managing Hollywood theaters that churn out PG movies and prime time TV sitcoms that are really R. "This generation" is not what manages at the executive level the pop culture behind the multi-billion dollar annually record label companies. "The generation" did not bow at the feet of Hugh Hefner and all the porn spin-offs like Hustler, Penthouse, FHM, Maxim, etc. "This generation" did not create the coast to coast abortion industry. "This generation" did not need to reject church and regular faith worship attendance because it hardly knows true faith exists due to...your generation.
"This generation has no clue?" Really? Well, well, well. Maybe the cluelessness ... has been handed down to "this generation" by YOUR GENERATION.
Renaissance Nerd | 4.27.12 @ 11:06AM
I would add, Gen-X also produced an awful lot of excellent officers and troops that have demonstrated superb leadership and nobility that can hardly be matched in all of history. Despite some bad apples, not even the 'greatest generation' had so many soldiers who would rather get shot than shoot through a woman or child used as a shield by a despicable terrorist. The current crop aged 25-45 are not the cause of the current problems; more often they're victims. It's the wacko wing of the 45-65 crowd that did everything possible to destroy the world their parents left to them.
tinfoil hat| 4.26.12 @ 8:42AM
Who benefits if the Secret Service is set up and discredited?
Kilgore Trout| 4.26.12 @ 9:27AM
FTA: I remember when Spiro Agnew had to leave the vice-presidency
That's pretty damn gentle. "Had to leave?" Agnew was a crook, should have done hard time.
AND, I am a conservative admirer of Ronald Reagan and Tyrell (usually) but that statement was BS.
Von Mises Jr| 4.26.12 @ 9:43AM
Kilgore, I love your name. Before I was an economic geek, I was a Vonnegut nut. I read about every one of his books.
He was a liberal lunatic, but many of his books spoke poorly of liberalism. Player Piano had the gifted wear clappers to stun them from thinking clearly. Isn't that what Obama's "fairness" amounts to???
Cat's Cradle had the villain Bokonon whom all the people loved. But he was needed to keep the dictators in power. Isn't that Obama's "Fat Cats?"
I forget the name of the novel where the two retarded twins, a boy and a girl, put their heads together and they were genius. Isn't that what Barry and Moochelle are trying to convince us that they can do???
Anthony| 4.26.12 @ 10:25AM
Hey Emmett, I bet your hero and pal, DSK would have loved to have had a Secret Service detail to protect him from wily hotel chamber maids!! Better yet, as you suggested with ole Slick Willie, have them available to procure a better class of nightly entertainment for both them and their charge.
Perhaps we can send over a crew to help procure comely ladies for the next World Bank conclave, of course, one hopes DSK will be out of jail in time for the festivities.
Ed| 4.26.12 @ 10:45AM
There's a lot of talk about the professionalism of the Secret Service and their willingness to "take a bullet" to protect their charge. Does anyone have any confidence that they would do so anymore? I have the same doubts about the military class-we may have great soldiers and equipment (although our opponents in Iraq and Afghanistan are far less well equipped and have down pretty well) but our military leaders are terrible.
Gary B| 4.26.12 @ 11:58AM
"...our military leaders are terrible."
Ed, you're right. What general in his right mind would sit still for the rules of engagement our troops are stuck with? I'd fire every damned one of them and make the Commandant of the Marine Corps head of the joint chiefs of staff.
The real state of affairs| 4.27.12 @ 1:34AM
We have Memorial Day coming up. I encourage all readers here to take advantage of the balmy weather that is in our southern states, head there. Head specifically to a large military installation. However, the goal is not to go on that large military base, rather to take up a hotel room at a bit of a "dive" hotel on the strip that is near but not too near the base. Stay at that "questionable" hotel while the troops will be on their Memorial Day four-day weekend liberties.
Just camp out at that hotel (must have outdoor swimming pool). No, don't take the wife along. Or any nieces, nephews or grandchildren.
You will see all manner of fornication, prostitution, girls being passed around, cougars showing up, drugs, marijuana, and probably some cocaine, booze, heavy booze, and more booze. Gay and lesbian action. Troops selling to troops. Taxi drivers in on it. Former troops now out of the service and working in that same community all in on it. Deadbeats. A hotel staff that looks the other way because they "need the business." About 3 1/2 days of orgy time. Sure intoxication. Lots of broken glass. Don't plan on being able to sleep before about 4 or 4:30 a.m.
Military leadership?
What a farce.
Minuteman78| 4.27.12 @ 7:53PM
Cougars? All right, I'm in! No...wait...a Cougar for me these days would be about 75. I better pass. :)
Rich Fisher| 4.26.12 @ 11:00AM
The lame answer from "Sis" has been that we may need better, more or different training. Really? What class do they have that teaches character? You either have it or you don't and you can't get it from a 3 hour seminar. Character is taught by parents with values, which are sorely lacking in the Liberal community. As long as we condone every and any type of sexual deviancy as a "lifestyle choice" we are doomed to this type of conduct. Character, honor and comittment are traits taught to children from day one. They aren't classess you send adults to.
Jim| 4.26.12 @ 12:31PM
Oo rah!
Yips| 4.27.12 @ 1:37AM
Thank you, Mr. Fisher! Your message is on target.
Either raise a child in the ways of the Lord or expect a real hell raiser.
Renaissance Nerd | 4.27.12 @ 11:09AM
Please somebody explain this to the HR departments of every major corporation!! I can't stand the thought of sitting through another ethics or sexual harassment class!
Petronius| 4.26.12 @ 12:20PM
Bob
Didn't you hear "The One" the other day?
Obama said, "It's MY Government." Forget everything that was. Political power is now a personal possession. Even if he can't steal re-election with ACORN stuffing ballots in all the cities, there are enough entrenched traitors in every department to paralyze any reduction attempts.
Pat| 4.26.12 @ 12:25PM
Every so often, Americans get together and hire an administrator to make important decisions for all of us. We provide him, rent-free, a well-fortified, highly secure, luxurious mansion to live in. But we can’t expect our employee to remain house bound every day so we also provide him, free of charge, several luxurious private jets, the most amazing automobiles in the world to ride around in and various helicopters for avoiding irritating traffic jams on the Beltway. No desk jockey should have to risk more than a vicious paper cut while doing his job, so we also provide personal security – the best in the world. Our security personnel must be physically fit, brave and, most of all, intelligent.
Our newly hired administrator may turn out to be a complete putz, a blowhard and a diaper stain but our Secret Service agents must preserve his dignity - not for his sake alone - but for America’s sake. Given his sexual appetites, JFK was the kind of guy you never want your teenage daughter to meet, but the Secret Service loyally guarded his public reputation by keeping their lips zipped and arranging for Jackie to be otherwise occupied during certain times in the evening.
And intelligence is a more desirable quality in an agent than a black belt in kung-fu. For example, instantly analyzing the difference between what Monica was physically doing to Bill Clinton and what John Hinckley did to Reagan takes quick thinking and fast decision making. Knowing when not to act boldly is also very necessary. If Hillary is screaming hysterically and throwing the Eleanor Roosevelt china at Bill, you don’t wrestle her to the ground and whisk the President off to safety – instead you loyally direct your glance around the room and pretend not to notice.
Out of duty, courage and patriotism, you’ll take a bullet for our administrator. You may not like him, respect him or want to share a beer with him, but you’ll gladly protect him with your very life. He’s not a cherished family member or even a close friend, you may have known him for only a day before you must act decisively, but you never fail to act. Circumstances can result in making the ultimate personal sacrifice but you’re doing it for all of us and not for a man whom you may thoroughly detest. We have the best form of government on this planet but, at times, it can be really, really awkward explaining our traditions to rational outsiders.
J.E. Nelson| 4.26.12 @ 3:49PM
this is an intelligent and articulate response-- whoever you are, you write and express yourself
Ed| 4.26.12 @ 4:48PM
Except, if the organization is so thoroughly corrupted, I doubt either its competence or the wherewithal of its members to make that sacrifice. If I'm staring at Palin's rear instead of looking to the crowd for attackers, I am an incompetent and wouldn't take a bullet for anyone.
Ron| 4.26.12 @ 12:34PM
Not sure why everyone is so bent...Obama was not even there yet, so really no one to technically "protect" and in Columbia, good or bad, prostitution is still legal in some zones, and the Secret Service was following NerObama's examples...party, hang out live on the taxpayer's dime and have good times....So why complain? NerObama is setting the example and the troops are following..
Now, to my real feelings...This is abominable...You may not respect the holder of the office, but you need to respect the office and the oath you have sworn. You do not have to like NerObama, but you do have to be ready to die for the office. That is where the Secret Service failed.
Unger| 4.27.12 @ 1:53AM
Ron,
Maybe you are unaware that having a newly contracted form of visible Herpes, a STD, contracting gonorrhea, syphilis, getting the blood results that confirm HIV, or just a real deep penetrating ache in your prostate and balls that won't go away, that these things might be able to distract and hinder full concentration on the job .
Plus when you're back in Washington, D.C. and confronted on street near your Virginia neighborhood by some toughs (on your off duty time, of course) that show you full color 8 x 11's of you with Ms. Colombia doing the wild thing back in Cartagena -- and, of course, you are a supervisor in the USSS and...married...with kids.
See, maybe contracting a fatal STD is being "ready to die for the office."
I got your point and real feelings. I am not sure that most Americans get that one has to be a very saintly-like, terribly fit, terribly smart man with no exploitable weaknesses (to include alcohol) to do this kind of job, law enforcement, being a judge, being a senior public official, an elected official, a mayor, a military officer, a military NCO, and on and on the list goes.
Occam's Tool| 4.27.12 @ 12:40PM
I don't expect saints; I do expect that the boys will show a certain degree of "savoir-faire" and not behave, as Slim Pickens put it so eloquently in "Blazing Saddles," like a bunch of "Kansas City Faggots."
Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 2:45PM
"What in the wide, wide world of sports is'a going on here? I hired you people to try to get a little track laid! Not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!
I wonder why they picked on Kansas City?
Skippy| 4.27.12 @ 3:26PM
Oh, Lili, Lili, legs, Lili....
Anthony| 4.26.12 @ 12:59PM
Obozo has the best protection in the world, it's called V.P. Joe Biteme.
Minuteman78| 4.27.12 @ 8:01PM
Yeah, I think people are actually afraid of Obama getting whacked only because of the unmitigated disaster that would occur if Gaffy Duck was given the reins. It's as if Captain Kirk would turn over command of the starship Enterprise to Sgt. Niedermeyer from Animal House on their way back to San Francisco.
Bill| 4.26.12 @ 1:31PM
Big government is toxic.
Nick| 4.26.12 @ 4:44PM
"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:
http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403
You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!
Rich Fisher| 4.27.12 @ 9:58AM
Why was this comment even allowed to stand. If this type of language is allowed we become no better than MoveOn.org and the Huffington Puffington Post. A little housekeeping is in order.
Not Special Ops Bill| 4.26.12 @ 3:03PM
A quote from an earlier article published on the American Spectator site: "men of character don't carouse with prostitutes."
I guess the supply of men of character is too small to provide enough real men to qualify for Secret Service duty. Too bad that our society has reached such a point. I hope I'm wrong.
Rich Fisher| 4.26.12 @ 3:44PM
Unfortunately men of character or women of character need not apply, that's the real probelm. If you don't pander to the politically correct butt kissers at the top you don't get hired at the bottom. Men of character don't want to hang around these type of losers nor do they want to have to depend on people of such low character and moral fiber to watch their back. Get rid of the trash, the politically correct atmosphere and men of character will line up for these jobs.
Rich Fisher| 4.26.12 @ 4:10PM
Let me expand on that by giving you the real world example. In 1973 I was promoted to SSGT in the USMC while stationed in Hawaii. The obligatory "leadership" class ensued and one of the requirements was that we all go as a group to Hotel Street in Honolulu-a noted strip club area and home of prostitutes, cross dressers and a lot of other degenerates-so that we would "know" what our men were tempted with. Really? My obvious question was when do you take us out and shoot us so we will know what they feel like as a WIA. Any way, we went as a group and as I suspected the evening degenerated fairly rapidly. Next day we had to give our report on our observations. My time came and I got up in front of a class of my peers as well as the officers running the school and told them how embarrassed and ashamed I was to have been a part of a group that acted like animals on the loose. I guess you see why my application to be an embassy guard was turned down due to a lack of diplomacy. At any rate I went from the odds on favorite to be the top graduate of the class to an odds on favorite of not graduating at all. Not that I cared but it does get lonely out there when you take a principled stand against loose morals. I blame the men caught up in this less than I do a system that systemically encourages such behavior, and I'm not talking just about the Secret Service but a country whose moral compass has lost its needle. When anything goes in society, especially sexual debauchery such as we condone today in the name of "lifestyle" then don't be surprised at the results. The only thing surprising is that anyone IS surprised.
PN| 4.27.12 @ 2:06AM
Mr. Fisher, good for you.
We need more men to just come out and tell it like it is. Like it REALLY IS. The ugly, real, unvarnished truth(s).
Right smack in the middle of our oh-so-vaunted American bastions of military life and "respectable" life vocations like law enforcement.
I have a similar story. Very real. Almost a parallel.
Only real difference is that it was Georgia and 1988. U.S Army.
I also stood up and said (not so eloquently) that I was ashamed that we'd stooped so low and behaved so poorly when we had all just been entrusted with chances and opportunities to lead.
Mr. Fisher, thank you for being different. You weren't wrong; they were.
Today we are learning of a new prostitute in Rio in Brazil who wants to get her justice in a case involving three U.S. Marines and U.S. State Department personnel. Note how there must be some fire where there is this "smoke." All of the alleged guilty parties were swiftly flown out of Brazil back when this incident occurred in fall (November?) of 2011.
"The only thing surprising is that anyone is surprised." Indeed.
Richard Baker| 4.26.12 @ 8:56PM
A proud agency brought down by Baby Boomer morals, I'm thinking.
POST American| 4.26.12 @ 10:51PM
---'National Enquirere' SAP OP ---RED ALERT!
Meanwhile, it's now reported RUSSIAN troops
are jointly training with Americans in Colorado
to 'take on American terrorists'.
Remember, we at POST American have
predicted 'boots on the ground' RED Chinese
reeivership, bankster 'managed' within a few
years.
ALL this on top of that 50 square miles of
Idaho that's become sovereign RED Chinese
territory and is said to be 'the first of
several'.
Throw in that recent purchase of 450 MILLION
rounds of hollow point ammo by 'Homeland
SICK--CURE--'IT'--HE' --and you ---start
to GET THE PICTURE.
"You know, it might be best if Obama
DID get a second term. If Romney gets in,
all the dumb NEO-cons and Libertarians
will go to sleep again ---give the CON its
needed 2 years to CON--solidate."
-ALEX JONES
(yesterday)
OH, and even further!
"Let them vote all they want.
I COUNT THE VOTES."
-Joseph Stalin
(1933)
It seems our votes this November are to be
counted off-shore ---by a Spanish company!
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diogenes| 4.27.12 @ 10:16AM
The chief purposes of this article are to let us know (1) that Tyrrell had President Reagan as a guest at his home, and (2) that one of his forebears was an incorruptible protector of Presidents.
Boys will be boys, when out of Momma's line if sight. It certainly isn't Obam's fault, and it isn't a new thing. The Secret Service has disgraced itself before by shielding JFK's follies, and partying instead of protecting JFK in Dallas. Why they should be viewed with particular respect is a mystery.
Obama is too feckless to understand the risks to him personally--not poliitically--of a Secret Service so undisciplined. If he could imagine these risks, heads would be rolling. But, the Emperor of Light fears no man.
Occam's Tool| 4.27.12 @ 12:34PM
As a psychiatric resident at UCLA I had two dealings with the USSS; in one, I was peripherally involved in a security situation involving the VEEP at the time; in the other, I had to deal with an individual threatening to kill the President.
In both situations, the USSS agents I dealt with were first rate. This was during the early 1990s.
Behaving like an idiot doesn't lower stress; it raises it. There are ways to play and unwind that leave you more fit for the next day stressors.
POST American| 4.27.12 @ 11:59PM
"We hear Obama can sing
--that he wants to be 'cool' again.
That's perfect. That's just what
a psychopath would do."
-Jay Weidner
Jed Rense Radio
(latest)
"We live in a psychopathic SIS-stem,
developed, designed, funded into being
by psychopaths, Psychopaths, remember,
worship power, and those with power.
They have nothing but disdain for those
below. They are superb actors, and liars
and can, ideologically, smell the wind and
turn on a dime. They have NO conscience,
and can visit an abortion clinic in the
morning, and a day care center in the
afternoon without flinching ---and even
sleep well that night. Psychopaths know
you better than you know yourselves
--and can recognize and even work with
each other. AGAIN, teach your children
to recognize them. We are living in a psychopathic
SIS--stem, run by psychopaths. Make NO mistake."
-Informed online
"PSYCHOPATHS best trick is
they are SO good at making
you think ---they CARE."
-Jay Weidner
THINK
---------'SSSSS---US---stain---Abel--'IT'--he'
THINK
---------Rockefellers --ROT-childs ---Obamas et al
THINK
----------------'BYE--O--------ETH---ICKS'
THINK
------the CFR---RED China handover OP
THINK FAST!
----------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012---------------
johnd2| 5.27.12 @ 9:58AM
If these SS turkeys had just done it quietly and paid the ladies what they promised, nothing would have happened. They deserve to be fired for stupidity.