Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember when the secret service used to be viewed as competent?

This made me howl with laughter. Decades ago, SS agents on the street totally missed a break-in right next door (very, very close!) to VIP they were guarding. They were roasted by the neighborhood for years afterwards!

The secret service are not supposed to provide police/ protection services to anyone besides their protectee. This makes sense if you think about it- otherwise criminals could break into houses next door in order to distract them away from the VIP

I know that. But situational awareness is central to the job and those guys were very clearly not up to that, given the incident’s proximity to the protectee.