We're talking about what's above you in the sky, what's below you underground and all that stuff, all that preparation, the planning, the blueprints, the choreography of it all. It happens weeks in advance". And it's not about fixing anybody, because sometimes I see books are telling people, you know, let me fix this or fix this problem.
There is nothing wrong with you. This is about overcoming fear and being strong and being resilient. Skip to content. Donald Trump. According to the memo, agency employees accessed Chaffetz's personal information approximately 60 times. September 30, - The DHS reports a senior manager at the Secret Service encouraged employees to leak Chaffetz's job application to retaliate against the congressman.
Just to be fair," the manager wrote in an email. October 21, - The DHS issues an alert, warning Secret Service management that agents are overworked and fatigued.
According to the alert, two officers were discovered sleeping at their posts during an audit of security at protected buildings. The review lists six additional breaches that took place over the course of a single month, including a security lapse that enabled an uninvited guest to go backstage at a function and speak to the president.
The committee proclaims that the agency has failed to implement many of the reforms recommended by the government panel in In conclusion, the committee declares that "the agency's recent public failures are not a series of isolated events, but the product of an insular culture that has historically been resistant to change.
May 26, - After reviewing the conduct of 57 Secret Service personnel, "41 are receiving some level of discipline" regarding the leak of Chaffetz's job application , Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson says in a statement.
November 15, - The Secret Service conducts the largest seizure of counterfeit currency in the agency's history. Thirty million counterfeit US dollars and 50, euros are discovered in Lima, Peru. February 14, - Secret Service Director Clancy announces his retirement to the staff. His retirement is effective March 4. March 16, - A laptop with highly sensitive information, including floor plans and the evacuation protocol for Trump Tower, is stolen from a Secret Service agent's car in Brooklyn.
April 13, - Two law enforcement officials tell CNN that two Secret Service officers were fired over their handling of a March 10 incident in which a White House fence jumper made it to just steps from a main door to the executive mansion. April 8, - The White House announces a "career member" of the Secret Service, James Murray, has been chosen to be its new director, following the news that Trump is removing Alles as director, amid a shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security.
Murray is sworn in on the first of May. Obama rides in a Cadillac with military grade eight-inch thick doors; on election night in November he gave his victory speech to a crowd of almost a quarter of a million people from behind bullet-proof glass walls designed to foil sniper attacks.
But gadgetry is only as effective as the people who use it. In the last analysis, the human factor remains supreme, as was illustrated last November when two reality show hopefuls gatecrashed a White House function, penetrating the inner core of the building and shaking Obama's hand.
As it happened, they had no malice towards the president. But in the mindset of the mortified secret service that didn't matter; they could have done. Which on some level is the nature of the beast: being president of the United States is a high-risk enterprise, as Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John Kennedy all found out the hard way.
Danger can come at a president from any number of directions. It can come from the lone deranged gunman. It can come too, theoretically, from international terrorism of the Islamist variety.
Which is why in the overall assessment of risk to Obama, so much attention is settling on rightwing extremist groups who are already operating inside America, are armed and ideologically motivated, and in some cases potentially capable of desperate acts. This brings us back to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been tracking the activity of potentially violent militia groups since the last great wave in the s when the so-called Patriot movement ballooned in proportion to rising rightwing anger towards Bill Clinton and fears of impending gun control.
That wave of opprobrium culminated in the Oklahoma bombing in which died and more were injured. The centre's latest report , released last week, records an astonishing mushrooming in extremist anti-government Patriot groups who see the Obama administration as a plot to impose "one-world government" on liberty-loving Americans.
The numbers leapt from groups in to groups in , of which were classed as paramilitary groups. Levin says the phenomenon is evident in rural areas around the Appalachian mountains and Great Lakes and into the west and Pacific north-west, where new armed militia groups are spontaneously emerging; and he has no doubt about why this is happening right now: "We've always had people who hate the president, we've always had conspiracies, but the fact that we have a black president at a time of economic tumult makes these conspiracies much more volatile among a far wider group of people.
Chip Berlet, an analyst of rightwing extremism at the Massachusetts-based group Political Research Associates, estimates that there have been nine murders by individuals who have white supremacist, xenophobic or antisemitic leanings since the inauguration of Obama. Berlet sees similarities in the current foment to the militia agitation of the s. What's new is that they can now recruit and communicate online, and that makes it very much more dangerous for the president.
Montana is one of the rural states where resurgent extreme rightwing activity can be detected. Travis McAdam has been tracking such activity for the last two decades on behalf of the Montana Human Rights Network, so has a unique vantage point for what is going on today. It's more than a gut-level hatred of having an African-American as president, it's also ideological — these people see black people as sub-human. Groups are popping up that have a new message and are using Obama to recruit new members.
White supremacist forums that provide closed talking shops for members only have been abuzz with anti-Obama rhetoric since the presidential election. In one such talkboard, monitored by a watchdog group, a correspondent writes: "if we want to see the overthrow or the cleansing of society then we should support Obama being where he is! I believe in the coming war.
With this Nig as President he will just speed up the process. Former presidents and first ladies remain free to relinquish Secret Service protection as did Richard Nixon in , 11 years after he left office. The Secret Service does not divulge the costs of its protective details, but it's believed to be in the range of tens of millions of dollars a year for each former president.
Mark Knoller.
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