Posted on 03/27/2014 10:36:46 PM PDT by chessplayer
One of the many pearls of wisdom that alcoholism recovery programs impart can be applied to the guys who caused the U.S. Secret Service's latest imbroglio. It's not that every time an agent drinks on the road, he has a problem. It's that, whenever there's an incident, it's usually because he's been drinking.
The Secret Service has a drinking problem. It's much worse than any other cultural deficit the elite agency has. It's more widespread than sexism, certainly, and the other isms that have been attached to the agency since the prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia. It's something that every journalist who covers the White House kind of knows, intuitively, if they've ever traveled with the president. Pick your favorite White House correspondent and ask him or her whether agents on President George W. Bush's detail created problems at the Wild West saloon in Waco. One former White House scribe told me that although reporters regularly witnessed agents drinking heavily BEFORE shifts, "we just assumed they could control themselves. After all, they were the ones who were the most responsible of all of us."
But often, agents drinking with each other don't have the foresight, or the ability, frankly, to tell their colleagues to stop drinking without losing face. In the Netherlands, not only was a member of the Counter-Assault Team drunk, he was falling-down drunk. He was sleeping on the floor of a hallway drunk. And several of his team members were drunk, too.
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Why do they do this?
Drinking <-—————> Meaninglessness
President Bill Clinton cheated on his wife and on his country. He lied under oath. The Secret Service is held to a higher standard than we hold our President to. If you are expected to give your life to protect someone, you want that someone to be worthy of that kind of sacrifice. If he isn’t, that’s going to cause you some problems. These guys are around Obama a lot. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that they see on a daily basis that Obama is a cowardly dumbass who is not an American. They have to deal with that as Americans and as bodyguards.
I saw a group of five or six of them getting lit at a Pekin, Illinois festival in ‘88, when Vice President George HW Bush was in town to give a stump speech. There was a keg of beer set up in a parking lot near the Tazewell County courthouse, and these guys were on it like flies on a turd.
It’s funny. At night I’d guard AF2 and their motorpool, helicopters and all the rest, dispatching vehicles to them. During the day, I was the bodyguard, driver and aide for General Al Haig, who was also running for the nomination.
Go to Hillbuzz and read more than you’ll ever want to know about Mr. Obama’s antics when he was in Chicago.
Bingo, good answer. And this is epidemic all throughout out society along with prescription drugs
Why did the name “Clind Eastwood” pop into my head? /rhetorical
Why did the name “Clint Eastwood” pop into my head? /rhetorical
...Now all they need is a small village with a ‘fishing’ problem.
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