Secret Service In Shambles

The Secret Service is in total shambles. Noting that the agency has had 48% turnover in a year, Sen. Roger Marshall is calling for an independent commission to investigate the agency’s failures and a crisis leadership team to “turn things upside down.”

Sen. Ted Cruz said that the decisions to deny extra security to Donald Trump and any security to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., were “political” and “partisan.” Cruz added:

“The rational inference from the evidence we know now is it was political bias at the top of the leadership of the Secret Service that led to insufficient agents and insufficient resources being devoted to protecting President Trump.”

Sen. Mike Lee said what many Americans are thinking:

“Nobody wants to believe the worst. . . But when they lied to us repeatedly, then when they refused to answer the most basic questions, when they almost willfully declined to take any of the most basic precautions in order to protect the former president . . . one has to wonder.”

Sen. Lee is right. There are too many questions the Secret Service has not answered because there is no answer that does not “convict” them. For example:

• Why was an ideal perch for a potential assassin left unsecured?

• Why was the shooter, spotted with a rangefinder and repeatedly identified as a “suspicious person,” allowed to wander around so long?

• Why, with all that going on, did no one say Trump’s speech should be delayed?

• Why did the FBI director plant the idea that Trump may not have been hit by a bullet? One-third of leftists don’t believe there was an assassination attempt. Why would the FBI director feed those delusions?

• Why, three weeks later, are they still unable or unwilling to answer basic questions?