Secret Service: Hey, sorry, we erased the video of our drunken agent plowing into a barricade

It's sort of like Hillary's e-mail, I guess. If you were as reckless and irresponsible as your run-of-the-mill Secret Service agent, you'd want to get rid of the evidence as quickly and cleanly as possible too. Surveillance tapes of that drunken Secret Service agent plowing into a barricade that had been set up as part of a bomb threat investigation? Oh, hey, they don't have that anymore because they tape over that stuff every three days. Seriously. This is their defense:

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Much of the surveillance video taken during a March 4 incident at the White House complex, in which Secret Service agents drove into a barricade marking off a bomb-threat investigation, has been erased, the agency's top official told lawmakers Thursday. Director Joseph P. Clancy, testifying before Congress for the second time this week, said the footage of the incident no longer exists, because of an agency practice of recording over surveillance video every three days. Clancy said his department is bringing in the security system's manufacturer and government experts to try to recover the lost footage. "We understand it's a concern," he said. "We're doing everything we can to retrieve those images and be as transparent as we can be."

They're trying to be as transparent as they can be given the fact that they're set up to be as secretive as they can. What law enforcement or security agency only saves surveillance tape for three days? And then, when someone needs the images, has no idea how to get it? I suppose the same agency that routinely hires party animals who pick up hookers in foreign countries, and that can't stop a guy from scaling the White House fence and running through the front door. I really would like to ask just about any presidential candidate - excepting Hillary because that would mean I'd have to talk to her - why they want to be president knowing that this collection of clowns is in charge of protecting your life. It's completely consistent with the Obama Administration's approach to preserving records, though: Get rid of it as quickly as you can.