Our Dedicated Secret Service

Ted Folkert

October 5, 2014

With a 1.6 billion dollar budget, why can’t we protect the president of the United States from potential harm? Of course the job is enormous. But the budget is also enormous. With all of the brilliant, highly educated, professionally trained, law enforcement specialists in this country, the country with supposedly the finest military in the world, why can’t we keep the president safe, at least in his home or on an elevator? One would think that in his home or on an elevator anywhere in the world, the president would be the best protected. A grade school kid could devise a plan to keep intruders out of the White House or off of an elevator.

Come on. This is pathetic.

Did you know that there have been 20 attempts to kill presidents of the U.S.? Did you know that 4 presidents have been assassinated while in office (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy)? Did you know that 2 other presidents were injured in assassination attempts (Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan)? Did you know that every president since John F. Kennedy has been threatened with assassination?

Do you think our Secret Service is aware of these facts?

Maureen Dowd takes up the subject in her New York Times article today.

Read the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-the-fall-of-julia-pierson.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region