Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
It’s getting even uglier out there…
Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service
US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.
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Instead of bringing in more agents — instantly identifiable because of their bulky suits, worn over bullet-proof jackets, and earpieces — the Secret Service directed agents to work longer hours to cover the extra load and to miss firearms training, physical fitness sessions and tests.
“We have half the number of agents we need, but requests for more agents have fallen on deaf ears at headquarters,” a Secret Service agent told Kessler. “Headquarters’ mentality has always been, ‘You can complete the mission with what you have. You’re a U.S.S.S. agent’.”
Way to go, wingnuts. If When Obama is assassinated, not only will you deserve the blame for his assassination, you will also be to blame for the performance degradation in the Secret Service that leads to his assassination. Wear it with pride, you fascist fuckwits.
