Huh:
Report: Unprecedented Number Of Death Threats Against Obama -- And Secret Service Overwhelmed
The Boston Globe reports that a new internal Congressional Research Service report and government sources say there are an unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama -- and that the Secret Service is insufficiently funded and staffed to deal with them.
According to The Globe, a report issued by the Congressional Research Service shows that the Secret Service is investigating more threats against government officials than ever before, and questions whether the 144-year old agency should continue probing financial crimes, as was its original mandate.
In total, the Secret Service regularly protects 32 people and arranges security for high-profile events. But the election of Barack Obama has increased threats against the president's life by 400 percent from his predecessor, according to "In the President's Secret Service," Ronald Kessler's account of presidential security. The Secret Service has looked into a number of race-based threats since Obama took office, and a Facebook poll that asked "Should Obama be killed?" President Obama also had a Secret Service detail 18 months before the election, the earliest of any Presidential candidate...
The Southern Poverty Law Center issued a report back in August that found that the number of white supremacist militia groups has spiked by 35% since 2000. The Secret Service has, in turn, increased its employees from 6,700 two years ago to a projected 7,055 in the coming fiscal year, almost entirely devoted to protecting national leaders. But that's a staff increase of just 5.3 percent -- nowhere near the 400 percent increase in threats to the president's life.
To be fair, though, some guy pushed another guy off of a car once so that evens things out. At least from what I've heard.
3 comments:
Of course it's the angry Left. It's a guarantee that no matter what evidence has been left behind by the agents of violence threatening the new Prez of the US and his policies, they will be presented as either Left (with a double lutz triple saumersault twist of logic) or they will be a Planted Mole of the Left inserted with the same care that saw Manchurian Candidate Obama to the WhiteHouse to make the Righteous Right look bad.
It takes a special brand of courage and fortitude to keep stalwartly loyal to Conservatism in the face of such eeeeevil geeeenius from the Satanic forces.
the numbers are hardly a surpise, unfortunately. given the repulican party has taken collective of its senses (in other words the American right has gone batshit crazy), this was bound to happen.
Just saw Oct9 MacLean's and they portray the violence and threats as a failing of his presidency to unify the country. This is of course the cover story.
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