In case anyone, like me, wants a source for Pence refusing to get in the car with the Secret Service. It’s from the book “I Alone Can Fix It.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/pence-car-raskin-comments/
The “terrified” part is speculation, but potentially true.
Sounds to me like Pence was tipped off.
Shouldn’t background checks for Top Secret clearances that involve employees in closer contact with important government officials screen out those with links to radical ideologies?
Bold of you to assume the Trump administration would’ve been screening them out.
There’s a question on the SF-86
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/01/12/extremist-groups-and-your-clearance/
The vetting can be done as was done with the National Guard deployed to DC:
https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/02/what-the-capitol-siege-means-for-the-future-of-security.html
Even National Guard members deployed to serve as an extra layer of security at the inauguration were vetted by the FBI to ensure no infiltration by potential insider threats; 12 National Guard members were removed due to security concerns. One Army reservist with a current security clearance and access to a naval munitions depot in New Jersey was also arrested in connection with the assault on the Capitol.
Do you guys not remember how the SS “accidentally” deleted all the texts from SS agents on the day of Jan 6th? “Whoops! Our bad!” Heads should have rolled big time!
I thought the same thing, these guys had a lot of confidence in doing what they did. They must have had that confidence for a reason,. It also explains the appearance of not having an end plan, if they believed the next stage was not their part of the coup. The next part of the plan we may never actually learn but damn we need to find out where the government has been compromised.
the Secret Service unironically is the reason the insurrectionists didn’t reach the senators/reps
Why are they getting credit? It was capital police who finally opened fire when the rioters got to the hallway with the congressional offices.
the Secret Service were the ones inside, who for example shot out into the hallway from the door of the senate when the MAGA traitors tried to storm the senate chambers
Unless you’ve got a source I’m not familiar with, the only time anyone opened fire on the protestors was in the hall where Ashley Babbitt died, and that was confirmed to be Capital Police.
It feels like one of the flaws in the system is that, while we’d want the agents who surround the president to be vetted more than almost anyone else, it’s the executive branch that’s responsible and apparently the president can give the okay for someone who doesn’t otherwise pass, as we saw happen for his kids. What’s to stop a corrupt president from having corrupt USSS agents?
Wow. So much for background checks.
They did the background checks - just not in the way most people expected.
The least cool eye patch wearer.
You don’t think he looks “radical”?
You know how I get these scars?
I dropped a gun and shot myself in the face, because I’m a “responsible gun owner.”
Some of those at work forces are the same that burn crosses
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Oh boy, that guy that’s real fun at parties. The hero we need…
It’s a rage reference man. If it was used on Reddit previously, okay, but you’re reaching to write your own narrative. Reddit sucks. Move on.
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I was kind of a tool bag there. I’m sorry. Guess I’m just tired of of half the comments on Lemmy involving reddit somehow. It’ll die down eventually I’m sure.
Just praetorian things.
Ha.
Otherwise known as being undercover?
Edit. I think I confused the SS with the FBI
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-january-6.html
