Here are some convictions following the events of the past two weeks; but then, especially, Secret Service Director Cheatle’s hearing before the House Oversight Committee today.
First, Dir. Cheatle should not have the privilege of resigning. She should be fired every bit as publicly as her failure has been. Our nation needs to see very public discipline. We pay these feds and Dir. Cheatle’s firing is the only action that is commensurate to her failure.
Second, the more serious failure is that of Secretary Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security. He should resign or be fired. Let him take his pick.
Contrary to his subordinate, Dir. Cheatle who said the “buck stops with me,” it does not. Her Secret Service domain is under Homeland Security and we all know the impossibility of the massive failures surrounding the shooting of Pres. Trump go much deeper than what happened that day in Butler County PA.
Yet Secy. Mayorkas has announced he is in charge of the investigation and he is now appointing and announcing the women and men he’s chosen for his Investigation Committee.
The guy doesn’t get it. His administrative leadership at the top of a heap which includes the Secret Service is precisely what needs to be investigated. For him to choose the women and men who will investigate himself is a conflict of interest that should shock the nation.
Sadly, to this point it hasn’t.
In the end, one way or another, Dir. Cheatle will be gone. But she is the small fish and her removal must be only the beginning. Secy. Mayorkas cannot remain. The buck stops with him.
It may be the only way to reform the Secret Service is to remove it from under the Department of Homeland Security. Maybe we should call for its return to the Department of Treasury where it lived from 1865 to 2003.
Come to think of it, I would be very pleased if our nation would call for the shutting down of the entire Department of Homeland Security. We already have the Department of Defense to defend our homeland. Ridding ourselves of Homeland Security would be an excellent step toward ridding ourselves of the malicious and hidden deep state apparatus exercising monstrous political control over the very taxpayers who pay them.