PRESIDENTIAL OBSERVATIONS BY THE SECRET SERVICE

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[Alberta's Child]

Interesting ping.

[don-o]

As much as most of us hate BJ and Hitlery, it would still be disasterous for this country if something happened to them as a result of a security breach.

What security breach specifically is in the post? I missed it

[Jeff Head]

Anything that would give any info regarding the personal information, styles, differences, problems, etc. that our leaders have with each other or anyone else. All information that could be exploited by enemies.

[Centurion2000]

Bump ... you said it.

[wagglebee]

See what I wrote in #55.

[Jeff Head]

All of it, as it deals with the leaders of this nation, is of security concern. Their habits, their likes and dislikes, their contention with one another, their disagreements...all of it could be exploited by enemies of this nation when dealing woith our leaders.

[Alberta's Child]

I just have a hard time believing that the Secret Service, current or retired, would share such inside information with any nieghbor or acquaintence. I believe they are constrained by securtiy clearance from doing so.

Dude, it's 2006. "Security clearances" and legal proprieties are pretty much irrelevant these days.

[Centurion2000]

As much as most of us hate BJ and Hitlery, it would still be disasterous for this country if something happened to them as a result of a security breach.

Name a consequence .... nothing would happen to this country if either one of them were wasted.

[Jeff Head]

See my 63 and 66.

[don-o]

LOL!!! Good on YOU!!

There's a pic out there of one of our troops shaking Her Thignness' hand and crossing his fingers. Who has it?

[GOP Poet]

Understandable reservation. But still. People talk.

[MatD]

I believe this story too, thought I have also read it before. I once heard second hand, from a reliable person, that both Bill and Hillary constantly used horrible vulgarity in the White House, and often screamed at each other.

[wagglebee]

Are you honestly that naive?

[maine-iac7]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2550-2004Nov21.html

this agent was also the guy with the football - which is NEVER to be be out of reach of the president.

Bush, shoving the Chilean agents aside and saying: "Get you hands off of him!" grabbed hold of his agent and polled him through. (This was the agent with the football, from which the Pres. is never to be our of reach.)
The video was priceless...
Then Bush, nonchalantly, turned, adjusted his shirt-cuff and returned to the First Lady and others without skipping a beat. A great Texas Gentlemen moment

[Jeff Head]

I have a hard time believing that Secret Service agents are talking in this fashion. While I believe the basic informnation is probably true...I wonder if this is not more along the lines of urban legend. Any agent talking to this degree would lose their job and could easily face criminal charges...and should.

Despite our own feelings about those leaders, they are our leaders and their personal information is very critical security information that we do not want enemies of this nation to exploit. Never mind the fact that some of those leaders themselves are foolish enough to let such information out...id the professional details charged with their protection, and by extension the protection of the entire nation, break down and start revealing such information themselves...we are in very dire conditions.

[msnimje]

People keep asking, "Is the US ready for a woman president?"

The question should be, "Is the US ready for a bitch as president?"

[Mo1]

Character counts!!!!!!!!!!!!

You Got That Right!!

[wagglebee]

IIRC, the Football is carried by a military office and not a Secret Service agent.

[Alberta's Child]

You both raise a valid point, but after what this country went through over the last 15 years I fully subscribe to a point of view that Matt Drudge once spoke about on his radio show years ago . . .

(I paraphrase)

"Every member of Congress, the Federal Judiciary, and the Executive branch of government should be assigned an independent prosecutor to follow them around every minute of every day and investigate everything they've ever said and done. If you are going to pass, sign, and enforce laws that restrict the free citizens of this country in any way, I want everything there is to know about your life to be exposed to public scrutiny."

[AmericaUnite]

God Bless President and Mrs. Bush.