The Secret Service will remove four senior officials following a series of White House security lapses and the resignation of the agency’s director last year, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Acting Director Joseph P. Clancy told the four officials on Tuesday that they must leave their positions within the next month, according to the Post.
“Change is necessary to gain a fresh perspective on how we conduct business,” Clancy said in a statement to the Post. “I am certain any of our senior executives will be productive and valued assets either in other positions at the Secret Service or the department.”
The officials will be allowed to take on new positions at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service, if they do not step down, according to the Post.
The Post also reported that the Secret Service’s assistant director in charge of training, who also lead President Obama’s security, will also retire.
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned in November after numerous calls from lawmakers for her to step down.
A fence-jumper made it into the White House in September, and then another man made it over the fence in October. A report also surfaced in September that revealed the Secret Service’s slow response to a shooting near the White House in 2011.
So they send them off to Department of Homeland Security. Just reshuffling the deck. Wow
These are people who I don’t think we really want on the free market opening their own security/mercenary firms. Or “consulting” for other governments like Eric Prince does in Dubai now.
They won’t necessarily be in charge of guarding people’s lives, maybe IT at DHS or some other no-prestige department where they can reflect how incompetent they are.
I feel so, um, safe.
Actually, I do, despite this.
But we might want to reexamine if we really need the DHS, besides for job creation, that is.
Thanks, Bushies. Heckuva job.
And they wanted Obama to rush off to Paris with doofuses like this ‘protecting’ him?