Secret Service

A Secret Service Story

Featured image The Secret Service has come under attack for its laxity, especially in connection with the first Trump assassination attempt. Some have speculated that the Service, or some of its members, are deliberately exposing Trump to danger. I heard an anecdote yesterday that suggests the problem is incompetence, not political bias. It came from Minnesota State Senator Jeff Howe. I do a weekly segment, each Thursday, on Al Travis’s radio show, »

Secret Service Roulette

Featured image Robert F. Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump gave a boost to the former president but entailed some sacrifice for Kennedy. His fellow Democrats had denied him Secret Service protection, which he gained only after the attempted assassination of Trump on July 13. After ending his candidacy, RFK Jr. now loses Secret Service protection and that recalls his father’s run for the presidency. On June 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, »

Worse Than the Old Boss

Featured image I want to be neutral and make sure that we get to the bottom of it and interview everybody in order to determine if there was more than one person who perhaps exercised bad judgment. I have lost sleep over that for the last 17 days, just like you have, and I will tell you, senator, that I will not rush to judgment, that people will be held accountable, and »

The Napolitano Coverup Commission

Featured image Joe Biden directed Department of Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas to assemble an “independent security review” of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13. The inclusion of Obama DHS boss Janet Napolitano ensures that this review will be anything but independent. Napolitano made her public debut in the 1991 campaign to keep Clarence Thomas off the U.S. Supreme Court. Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexually harassing her and »

Following Biden’s Instructions

Featured image In today’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, representatives stoked plenty of heat but Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheatle yielded very little light. Rep. Nancy Mace wanted to know how Cheatle’s opening statement got to friendly media before it showed up with the committee. Cheatle had “no idea” how that happened. Cheatle knew how many shell casings were found on the roof where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired, but wouldn’t reveal »

Kicking Assassin

Featured image In the tsunami of words following the July 13 shootings, open condemnations of Thomas Matthew Crooks are hard to find. Donald Trump was his primary target, but the pasty-faced 20-year-old may have sought to inspire other assassins. Before they attempt any copy-cat action, Biden Youth types might train by calling on old guys from the Baby Boom generation. If they go that way, there’s a few realities to consider. That »

“The Secret Service Is on Top of This”

Featured image While information awaits on Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, consider wannabe presidential assassin Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, who praised Osama bin Laden for standing up to the United States. According to the FBI: On November 11, 2011, at approximately 8:50 p.m., Ortega-Hernandez drove southbound on 15th Street NW and made a right turn onto Constitution Avenue NW. Shortly after passing the entrance to the Ellipse, he stopped his vehicle in the middle »

Trump’s triumph

Featured image A few thoughts on the attempted assassination of President Trump last night limited to ten bullet points: • Ernest Hemingway famously defined courage as grace under pressure. President Trump displayed grace under pressure last night. Mr. President, you made us proud. • It was not just Donald Trump who dodged a bullet last night. We all dodged a bullet. The anger and chaos that would have followed his successful assassination »

Former SS agent Dan Bongino: ‘There may … have been fingerprints found on that cocaine baggie’

Featured image Like many of us, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino was extremely upset by the agency’s announcement on Thursday that they’d concluded their investigation into the discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House without identifying a suspect. He addressed the story on his Thursday podcast. “Folks, there’s no way that story’s true,” he told listeners. “So, there’s clearly a political motive here to make this story go away.” »

Fake agents released

Featured image The government lost its motion to detain fake federal officers Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali. I posted the government’s memorandum in support of the detention motion here on Sunday with my own notes and queries. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey remained unimpressed by every element of the government’s argument. Deeming the defendant’s conduct “sophomoric,” he seems to see them in the light of a Coen Brothers comedy in the making. »

What it is ain’t exactly clear

Featured image We’ve been following the astounding operation run in Washington, D.C. here (April 7), here (April 8), and here (by John, also April 8). Today I want to add the memorandum in support of the continued detention of the accused operators, Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali (embedded below). John commented on it in the third linked post. Please pause over the text of the memorandum and the photographs included in it. »

Operation Secret Service

Featured image Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali were arrested on Wednesday for impersonating federal officers. Arraigned yesterday, they await a detention hearing this today. Following the arrests the FBI searched five apartment units and three vehicles where agents found multiple firearms, law enforcement equipment, servers, and hard drives. The two men appear rather obviously to have been running a lavish operation intended to penetrate the Secret Service, at the least, on behalf »

Compromising the Secret Service

Featured image Two men “of Washington, D.C.” (as they are identified in the prosecutors’ press release) were arrested yesterday for impersonating federal officers in a scheme that appears to have involved efforts to compromise the Secret Service. Michael Balsamo lays out the basic elements of the case in the AP story: Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to »