Comments on Advance Indiana™: Secret Service Sought To Discredit Congressman Investigating Security Lapses

Unless it's SOP at the SS, Gary.

2015-10-01T15:32:19.718-05:00

Unless it's SOP at the SS, Gary.

If he applied for a job at the Secret Service, the...

2015-10-01T13:36:33.896-05:00

If he applied for a job at the Secret Service, there would have been a background investigation of him in all likelihood because of the nature of the job. Those sometimes contain unproven and embarrassing allegations about a person. Something is wrong with SS's human resource system if so many persons were able to gain access to what was supposed to be a confidential file.

FFS, what is on his resume, or CV or "job app...

2015-10-01T13:30:30.724-05:00

FFS, what is on his resume, or CV or "job application" that can be so embarrassing?

I thought we were suppose to leave that crap out!!

In Chaffetz's ten year tenure at Nu Skin, the ...

2015-10-01T13:02:16.820-05:00

In Chaffetz's ten year tenure at Nu Skin, the company was sued by the states of CT, PA, FL, IL, OH, MI, by Stanford U, the government of China, and twice by the FTC which alone cost the company $2.5 million. In 2014 Nu Skin was accused of investor securities fraud.
As head of the House committee 'investigating' Planned Parenthood he has been accused of an inability to confront an intelligent, competent woman in the person of Cecile Richards. Chaffetz introduced his now infamous chart stating that figures where taken from Planned Parenthood's own 2014 budget when the bottom caption showed that it was produced by the rabid anti-abortion group Citizens United for Life and I guess both agreed that 935,573 is less than 327,653.
Described by some as pompous and vile, it is no wonder that the SS turned down this liar's application. His strange interactions with legally constituted government agencies should warrant a review by the Secret Service.

Well, this isn't exactly new. Pres. Lincoln ...

2015-10-01T12:34:57.793-05:00

Well, this isn't exactly new. Pres. Lincoln locked up reporters & editors who disagreed with the Union's war effort in military prisons.

Chaffetz can be a jerk. In February 2015 Chaffetz...

2015-10-01T10:12:02.653-05:00

Chaffetz can be a jerk. In February 2015 Chaffetz threatened Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser with possible jail time if she implements Initiative 71. The ballot initiative would legalize small amounts of cannabis in the district and was approved by about 64.87 percent of the voters in 2014.

And this isn’t his first run in with security. Chaffetz and TSA have had a rocky relationship since he joined Congress. In his freshman year, in what critics have described as political grandstanding, he accused Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at his hometown airport in Salt Lake City of unfairly targeting him to pass through a full-body scanning machine—a device Chaffetz believes is invasive. The Republican lawmaker said he believed he was targeted partially for his opposition to granting TSA screeners collective bargaining rights. The union representing some of the officers said at the time that agents followed proper procedure and that an officer who had recently returned from military service in Iraq didn’t recognize Chaffetz. Sorry.

And Chaffetz had a particularly hypocritical role in Benghazi. Chaffetz has been criticized for politicizing the Benghazi incident, acknowledging in an interview with CNN that he had "voted to cut the funding for embassy security" and that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010. "Absolutely," Chaffetz said. "Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country." Ok. But then he pointed fingers at everybody else shamelessly..

The comments completely miss the point, which is t...

2015-10-01T09:05:09.546-05:00

The comments completely miss the point, which is that all government officials now feel completely free to openly use their power to destroy their enemies, real or pereceived. This has nothing to do with the Secret Service and everything to do with what America has become. It's no different elsewhere in government or in large corporations. No different at all.

The Secret Service hasn't been the best for a ...

2015-10-01T08:47:01.517-05:00

The Secret Service hasn't been the best for a long time. They were complicit, if not incompetent, in both Kennedy assassinations and the attempt on Reagan's life.

Remember the government employees who were fired f...

2015-10-01T08:02:32.644-05:00

Remember the government employees who were fired for accessing Obama's passport file in 2007/08?

The USSS was the best of the best, when they were ...

2015-10-01T08:00:50.986-05:00

The USSS was the best of the best, when they were under the Department of the Treasury with a dedicated and clear mission of anti-counterfeiting, financial crimes and executive protection. They've since nose-dived on a nebulous "counter-terrorism" mission under DHS, the largest expansion of the US gov't since FDR.

It's ironic that the people who let the intelligence services loose in the first place is Congress. They keep giving them more and more power and keep removing safeguards and civilian/judicial oversight. It's no wonder that the intelligence community is starting to feel they aren't accountable to anyone...because they aren't any more.