Secret Service May Be Outsourcing Scouting for Bush's Visits

Dr. Marble:

When the Secret Service denies direct involvement in any advance scouting for the President, you can believe them. That's because the agency has basically outsourced advanced scouting for all of Bush's visits to those creepy guys from Blackwater -- and a few other "in favor" security agencies.

Those guys in the black shirts and desert fatigues are much better prepared to scout ahead of a presidential visit than the Secret Service ever was. Not to mentioned better armed. And -- unlike the Secret Service --contract security personnel can also be tasked to report directly to Karl and Dick without leaving a paper trail. That's something not even Secret Service agents can do -- even the ones who already work for Fox.

Besides, your particular visit by the president was an "in country" visit. Contract security is much better suited for such a scenario --especially if the president might come in contact with any "ungrateful" alligators or sharks. If there are any.

Doctor: you more than most know there's always a few malcontents no matter where Mr. Bush goes. And it's always these same miscreants posing the same embarrassing questions when the President revisits a disaster area. As you know, "W" -- like the Lord -- loves winners and hates losers. What's it gonna take to get you with the program?

As to White House staff members actually doing advanced scouting, there's absolutely nothing to that ugly rumor. Nobody in the West Wing has those kind of cojones. Someone is using that spin just to give a security cover to Blackwater.

And security is why it's especially important that we keep anyone from asking for Blackwater's records and business receipts for having guarded the President since at least 2003. It would only send the wrong signal to the Terrorists.

Worse...their records might even be accurate! Know what kind of pressure that puts on other contractors who scream in the middle of the night from the nightmare of having to submit a sealed bid to the government? Most of them probably don't remember how.

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by frank stellaugh (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 2:04:08 PM