Remember when the Secret Service was the one government agency everybody could agree on? Before all the stories about drinking and whoring and whatnot, I mean. They seemed like the last heroes we had left. We were so naive back then, weren’t we?
Or maybe we just didn’t see what they’re really like because there was no Facebook yet. Susan Crabtree, Washington Examiner:
A senior U.S. Secret Service agent posted Facebook condemnations of President Trump during the past seven months, including one in which she said she wouldn’t want to “take a bullet” for him…
Kerry O’Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver district, oversees coordination with Washington-based advance teams…
Despite her senior security role, she has made her disdain for Trump and his incoming administration clear to her Facebook followers, who included current and former Secret Service agents and other people who were employees at the time of the posts.
I just have three questions:
- I was under the impression that the screening process to become a Secret Service agent was rigorous. Why aren’t they screening out applicants who are likely to do really stupid things like, say, publicly stating they won’t perform their sworn duties if they don’t like the winner of an election?
- Why are we only finding out about this after seven months of it?
- What will O’Grady’s next career be?
At least she’s not one of the agents investigating Madonna for yammering about blowing up the White House. Sounds like they’d be fast friends.
(Hat tip: Peter Hasson)