Posted on 10/22/2009 12:04:44 AM PDT by Islander7
An internal congressional report questioning the ability of the Secret Service to continue fulfilling its duties was leaked to the Boston Globe. The report says the Secret Service is strained by a drastic increase in threats to President Obama, coupled with deep budget cuts.
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Talking Points Memo noted that Ronald Kessler, the author of a recently released book on the Secret Service's protection of U.S. presidents, recently said that threats against President Obama are up 400 percent from the number of threats levied against former President George W. Bush, while the size of the agency's staff has only increased by 5.3 percent.
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No suprise. He’s a POS.
It’s not about race. It’s about destroying the country!
Only if they have literally been told to investigate every sleight.
Bingo!
Hmmm.. Sounds like the stage is being set to facilitate his impenetrable ability to stay in office beyond 2012.
Aren’t Michael Jackson’s bodyguards looking for work?
Maybe it’s because their “reaction” is up 400%. We know they didn’t give a hoot about threats on Bush like they do to this prima donna.
May he live to be 103 so that he enjoy his ignominy "long time".
The increase seems kind of low considering what he’s doing and who he’s hiring.
My guess is that “threat” has been re-defined.
“coupled with deep budget cuts.”
What budget cuts exactly?
Mark my words. There will be an attempt on his worthless life and it will be staged. he won’t get hit, but a someone will shoot at him, and he will pay it for all it is worth... It will be a wag the dog moment, but on our own soil! This man is beyond contempt, so put nothing past him!
exscuse the typos FR police, I am having sticky key problems. unless i bang them hard as I am doing now! :)
Of course it’s all the right wing extremists and Rush and FOX news fault. Glenn Beck has to pay his bodyguards.
Go to the article and, using their source links, try finding a direct quote on this “400” statistic. Go ahead, I dare ya....
in a related article I read a couple days ago it said they changed what a threat is but they didn’t say what they changed.
Exactly, I dont believe this.
yes it has.
The absolute last thing we need is any attempts on Obama’s life.
absolutely
Yes. The Southern Poverty Law Center seems to be in on this one. Their quote:
key difference this time is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man.
Amazing.
They are working with the police about a stupid carved swastika by Obama’s name carved into a golf course. When I read that I though if they were to investigate every graffiti on that level that was done about Bush they would have been at it 24/7. That's what happens when you are super paranoid. What a waste of resources!
http://wbztv.com/local/lakeville.swastika.obama.2.1244346.html
Someone carved the letter “I” then a swastika and the word “Obama” on the 18th hole at the Lakeville Country Club.
It was discovered early Monday morning by greens keepers.
The Secret Service confirms it is working closely with Lakeville police on the case.
er, this sound like a repeat of a story that was posted during Obama’s campaign
search for the archives, I’m sure you’ll find a story exactly like this about a year ago. I remember calling it a BS and now they repeat the same old story again
Any disagreement with communist policy is considered a threat.
I'll call it what it is- hogwash.
I live in the heart of the Deep South, and I have not heard one word spoken against -Kommander ZerØ--
By contrast, every other President I can recall had some nasty cracks made about him.
More made-up stories for the Faithful to chatter about at their cocktail parties...
Wait till 2010.
Maybe they are strained because he is flying off to somewhere every other week. It takes fewer resources and less strain on the agents to protect the President when he is in the White House than when he is out on the road.
Not good. If anything happens, guess who will get the blame?
All I see is commie RED.
I wish Glenn Beck, Rush and others would expose the Southern Poverty Law Center for what it really is, a phony front group that promotes Communism, Marxism, the Gay agenda, Anti-Americanism under the guise of helping the poor and standing up for the “ LAW “ ...
Two words on civic duty. “Oath Keepers”
Actually, it looks to me as if he does have some Nation of Islam "guards." They wear black suits now, btw; I guess the Pullman porter outfits (source of the NOI uniform) were a little much even for them. But in any case, the next time he's shown at a public appearance, look and see if it doesn't seem to you that some of the people around him, particularly in front of the stage, are not SS at all but NOI. I think the name of the group is "Fruit of Islam."
In any case, I know he did have them around him during the campaign.
No, it doesn't. Why does this kind of idiocy come up at all? Reminds me of what the Liberals used to say about Bush. Oh, and welcome to FreeRepublic.
Obama’s numbers are spiraling downward. I guess that is Fox news fault, also. No wait, Fox news isn't a news entity and does not matter. If this is true, then Mr. Barack Hussein Obama who caused your polling numbers to spiral downward so quickly? Oh yeah, the right wing conspirators. (sarc)
Why should the Secret Service need to worry. Obama is a Chicago crime boss, he has czars to protect him.
What did they expect? Black on black crime is at epidemic proportions.
Baloney. Another Rham made up press release.
Ditto. Not enough information provided to make an assessment of claim.
UPDATE: Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says that while there was a rise in threats right after the inauguration, the number of threats against Obama is now “within the range” of the number of threats against the last two presidents.
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This truth inadvertently appears in libtard cynthia tucker’s column in the ajc. the comments at the end are somewhat interesting.
http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/10/20/theyve-been-watching-red-dawn-again/
Looks like saying Obama and spiting on the sidewalk is enough now days.
Yep. Every time you cut a government agency, their first response is to cut their most essential function, instead of the waste. This leak is a desperate attempt to get funding, and Pelosi will cave.
When you threaten to destroy families, people, veterans and their lives, you get threatened back. I’m not a bit surprised. king obuma’s entire fascist thug operation revolves around threats.
Walk down the street and tell people you’re going to steal their money and destroy their life. See what kind of reaction you get.
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