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Secret Service chief apologizes for how group of cancer-stricken kids was treated
washingtonpost.com ^ | Dana Hedgpeth and Fredrick Kunkle

Posted on 09/21/2015 10:59:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Mike Gillette said Clancy called him Monday and said he was “very sorry,” and that the agency “did not handle the situation well.” A spokeswoman for the Secret Service confirmed that Clancy made the call.

According to Gillette, Clancy offered to come to one of the group’s events to apologize in person and offered to have some of the children come to one of the agency’s training facilities in Maryland for a tour.

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In a statement e-mailed late Sunday, Brian Leary, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said the closures on Pennsylvania Avenue and Lafayette Square were “put into place based on standard [Secret Service] protocols prior to protectee movements in the vicinity of the White House Complex.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 201509; cancer; elite; emperor; lafayettesquare; parks; secertservice; secretservice; ss
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1 posted on 09/21/2015 10:59:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Too late now. The group had a permit and it meant nothing to the Secret Service?


2 posted on 09/21/2015 11:04:50 AM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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To: BenLurkin
said the closures on Pennsylvania Avenue and Lafayette Square were “put into place based on standard [Secret Service] protocols prior to protectee movements

Yeah, Obama probably had some muslim "protectee" visiting with his mockup of a clock bomb. Obama cares about kids... if they're muslim.

3 posted on 09/21/2015 11:06:29 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: BenLurkin

If the Ahole walks out a certain door in the White House, people must be cleared away from the street and park facing that side. The national security cult, and the presidency bubble cult continues.


4 posted on 09/21/2015 11:07:11 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: madison10

DC has around 39 different law enforcement agencies which do not appear to communicate with each other.


5 posted on 09/21/2015 11:07:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BenLurkin

The president is personally shameworthy for his imperial insistence upon absolute control of the citizenry as it pertains to his movements.
When terminally ill children are substantially inconvenienced by the pro forma actions of a presidential detail we have lost any reason to respect that office or its occupant.


6 posted on 09/21/2015 11:08:40 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: BenLurkin

Do people have to be a jerk to get a government job? I know a low IQ is required by my personal interactions with such people.


7 posted on 09/21/2015 11:10:45 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Barack Obama-—

Attacker of children with cancer and veterans wanting to visit their war memorials.


8 posted on 09/21/2015 11:13:36 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Buckeye McFrog
DC has around 39 different law enforcement agencies which do not appear to communicate with each other.

The Federal government has become like a feudal kingdom, with each agency being its own sovereign duchy. They only owe nominal allegiance to the central government, each one recognizes no constraint on its power, and each agency has its own "army" of armed police to enforce its wishes within its jurisdiction (and often outside of it as well).

Oh, and lest we peasants forget, each duchy does not recognize any constraints on its power over the people, and refuses to be accountable to them.

9 posted on 09/21/2015 11:14:08 AM PDT by henkster (Liberals forget Dickens' kids forged an Empire on which the sun never set.)
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To: BenLurkin

Just the usual responses: apologize, accept responsibility, mea culpa, then business as usual.


10 posted on 09/21/2015 11:23:36 AM PDT by TroutStalker ("Protect the hypersensitive. Ban everything.")
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The phrase “accept responsibility” has ceased to have any meaning at all.

L


11 posted on 09/21/2015 11:25:37 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: BenLurkin

The SS lets Bambi get on an elevator with an armed felon, but they chase a group of parents and their sick children from Lafayette Square where they had a permit to be.


12 posted on 09/21/2015 11:26:23 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: DesertRhino
"If the Ahole walks out a certain door in the White House, people must be cleared away from the street and park facing that side."

The puke probably stepped out to have a cigarette.

13 posted on 09/21/2015 11:27:21 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: roadcat
" Yeah, Obama probably had some muslim "protectee" visiting with his mockup of a clock bomb."

They probably moved the group so they wouldn't see Bambi trying to find a door to get back in.

14 posted on 09/21/2015 11:29:11 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: BenLurkin

The children and their chaperones should be invited to the WH. Anything less is meaningless as an apology.


15 posted on 09/21/2015 11:31:32 AM PDT by grania
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To: Lurker

High ranking government officials should conform to the Japanese acceptance of responsibility and kill themselves.


16 posted on 09/21/2015 11:44:36 AM PDT by TroutStalker ("Protect the hypersensitive. Ban everything.")
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To: BenLurkin

I think the problem is that this group asked to have the White House lit up in gold to acknowledge their fight against cancer.

Obama and Valerie just wouldn’t do that.

Obama and Valerie Jarrett can light up the White House in rainbow colors for homosexuals, but they chase children with cancer away.

This proves their priorities.


17 posted on 09/21/2015 11:46:48 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: mass55th

Actually, he was leaving the White House to go address the Congressional Black Caucus.


18 posted on 09/21/2015 11:49:45 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Lurker
The phrase “accept responsibility” has ceased to have any meaning at all.

No consequence = no change.

19 posted on 09/21/2015 12:25:02 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I want to live my cat's life.)
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To: grania

I wouldn’t subject them to the white hut to be subjected to those that jerked them off.


20 posted on 09/21/2015 1:37:57 PM PDT by mcshot (We have but our word and honor - 0 has 0.)
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