[marktwain]

Wow. A local police chief stands up to the Secret Service when they attempt to violate their oaths.

Wow.

[marktwain]

This is said to be a link to the relevant documents included with the letter:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1312810-steve-anderson-letter-regarding-secret-service.html

[Red Badger]

Good for them!.....................

[gaijin]

remember that low income, confused black women with a child in her car who was more or less executed next to the White House?

No one remembers that, but more of the same, here, apparently.

good post..!

[Fido969]

the individual was refusing to let them in without a warrant and appeared to be armed.

4th and 2nd amendment.

Don't these morons take an oath to defend the Constitution?

[Eagles6]

Yeah, WOW! is right. Scary stuff.

[apillar]

Stupid on the Secret Service's part if true as even a lawyer fresh out of law school could have gotten any evidence obtained during the illegal search thrown out in a heartbeat.....

[Jacquerie]

Dust off your Road to Serfdom by Hayek.

Chapter XI is, “Why the Worst Get on Top.”

Societies trending toward authoritarianism attract thugs and those ruthless enough to grasp the power they lust for.

[gaijin]

Good guy - SWAT team treatment

Bad guy - Disney-World treatment, you know, more welcoming

[faithhopecharity]

I’m all for the secret service but fake warrants are not acceptable !! Time to fire those responsible. Besides , real warrants are do incredibly easy to get ... ( which is another problem we have ...)

[CodeToad]

Federal agents are allowed by law to lie to us. I question so much as the time of day if they had a watch on. Federal agents are liars by trade, by training, and by law.

There is no such thing as a warrant to question someone.

[stephenjohnbanker]

No wonder Obama defended the Secret Service. Like the IRS, they do his dirty work for him.

[Hugin]

“they informed the Secret Service agents that the man in question is a licensed gun owner”

I strongly suspect that you don’t need a “license” to own a gun in TN. There seems to be a trend in media to refer to gun owners and their firearms as “licensed” when they mean legal. I suspect it’s to make the people think needing permission from the government to own firearms is normal.

[eyeamok]

“one of the agents then asked a [Nashville police] sergeant to ‘wave a piece of paper’ in an apparent effort to dupe the resident into thinking that they indeed had a warrant.”

And the Police should have ARRESTED him right then for:
Attempted Armed Robbery
Attempted Breaking and Entering
Using a firearm during the course of a Violent Felony

[VerySadAmerican]

That gives me a little bit of hope.

[Politicalkiddo]

Dirty pigs.

[morphing libertarian]

can’t the hero of benghazi just unfriend him?

[TigersEye]

...who had posted about President Obama on Facebook,”...

Posted what? I'd like to see that.

[hometoroost]

Why are government officials so ruthlessly efficient (not the same as effective) when they’re doing things they aren’t supposed to and not when they’re doing the jobs for which their agencies were created.

[Robert357]

Wow! Ditto on the local police if that is the full story, they should all be treated as hero's.

[spodefly]

Does the SS have so many spare officers with nothing to do (besides drinking and whoring) that they can’t be bothered to focus on credible instances where warrants are obtainable? I am sure if someone represented a credible threat, a warrant would be easy to obtain.