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Under the bus.

Julia Pierson resigns as Secret Service director

By Dan Calabrese ——--October 1, 2014

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It couldn't have gone any other way, of course, not after the debacle on Capitol Hill the last couple of days. (Then again, John Koskinen still has a job, so nothing is impossible.) But if this goes as Washington business typically does, the political class will consider this the end of the story because the always-wanted pound of flesh was acquired. The Secret Service was a mess before Pierson. In fact, she was supposedly appointed based on her ability to fix it.
Oops! But when even Nancy Pelosi isn't willing to defend you, yeah, you can pretty much pack your bags:
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned her post Tuesday after a fence jumper gained access to the White House Sept. 19th and a subsequent congressional inquiry uncovered other security lapses. Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson announced the resignation in a statement. He also announced that the DHS would take over an internal inquiry of the Secret Service and that he would appointment of a new panel to review security at the White House.
Calls for Pierson to leave her post grew after a poor performance during her testimony on Capitol Hill and another bombshell revelation that the an armed contractor was allowed to get into an elevator with the president during a recent trip to the Centers for Disease Control. Even some high ranking Democrats have turned against Pierson, who has been in the job for less than two years. In an interview on Wednesday Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, where the hearing took place, said he thinks Pierson- who he referred to as "this lady" "has to go." Cummings reiterated this stance in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I want her to go if she cannot restore trust in the agency and if she cannot get the culture back in order," he said. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, quickly endorsed those comments. "I agree with his analysis, yes," Pelosi said during her weekly Capitol Hill news conference.
So what happens now? The Secret Service is under Homeland Security, which is now taking a look at where to go from here. Most likely they'll send over some DHS veteran - as veteran as you can be with an agency that's 12 years old, I guess - who will be charged with the imperative of cleaning it up, but we've heard all that before. Don't be surprised if we're soon hearing calls on Capitol Hill to increase Secret Service funding, as if lack of money is the reason the guard at the door couldn't stop the fence jumper from getting in. But at least we know the Secret Service won't be embarrassing itself any further by sending Pierson up to Capitol Hill to obfuscate. That's the job of pros like Lerner and Koskinen. By the way, Hillary, are you sure you want to be president when this group of Keystone Kops would be protecting you? If you don't want to run out of concern for your own safety, trust me, the entire nation will understand.

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