The panel, led by Mark Filip, deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush, Janet Napolitano, the secretary of Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama, and others, recommended leadership in the agency be replaced with outside individuals who could change the culture of the Secret Service, including the “present sense of complacency within the Service.”
It was reported by CNN Politics and Newsmax that, “The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved,” the panel wrote in its report released Thursday
Any reasonable person would agree. Former Director Kim Cheadle was allowed to resign and Acting Director Ronald Rowe, who, though not named directly in the report’s recommendation for leadership change, comes from inside the ranks of the agency and was appointed after Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in the wake of the near assassination.
But the culture is stagnant and will not change as long as the existing leadership remains.
The 52-page report issued Thursday took the Secret Service to task for specific problems leading up to the July 13 rally in Butler as a well as deeper one within the agency's culture. It recommended bringing in new, outside leadership and refocusing on its protective mission.
I agree. And when Donald Trump is elected again, his first order of business should be to appoint Dan Bongino to head up the agency and give him complete autonomy to clean up the Service as this bi-partisan panel believes. He knows what is needed.
The morale of the rank-and-file is suffering from the negative political climate caused by the current lack of real leadership and needs someone who can lead them like they want and need. The sooner this happens, that attitude will be improved.
And in nineteen days, we can all make that happen by electing Donald Trump.
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