The Secret Service Is Not-So-Secretly Disloyal
Joe Biden is merely the biggest American politician to have a cop problem.
Published on Dec 31, 2022 9:01AM EST
Alex Pareene @pareene
ACCORDING TO A forthcoming book by the journalist Chris Whipple, an advance copy of which was obtained by The Independent, Joe Biden is distrustful of his own Secret Service security detail for at least two reasons, one comical and one a bit less so. The comical one is that he simply does not believe his dog, Major, is as naughty as has been reported. Major supposedly bit an agent in the private residence section of the White House last March. But Biden does not think all the details add up:
Mr Biden expressed his concerns to a friend while he was giving a tour of the White House family quarters. The president reportedly pointed to the alleged location of the biting — on the second floor of the executive mansion — and told the friend: “Look, the Secret Service are never up here. It didn’t happen”.
He added that Mr Biden thought “somebody was lying … about the way the incident had gone down”.
OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY ADAM SCHULTZ VIA WIKIPEDIA.
Biden family dog Major looks out the window of the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, while President Joe Biden works at the Resolute Desk.
Major is also supposed to have bitten someone else a month or so later, so this is not exactly airtight proof of Secret Service perfidy. But there is also the other thing, which is a bit more serious than a dog bite. It seems that the Secret Service suspiciously destroying text messages its agents sent on January 5 and 6, 2021, has also made the president a little leery about the sympathies of the people tasked with protecting him. According to Whipple, “the president no longer spoke freely” in front of Secret Service agents.
For a man like Joe Biden, not speaking freely seems like an act that would take extraordinary willpower, so this is indeed a harsh assessment. But it’s not an unjustified one, considering that Secret Service agents have done things like write salacious (and factually dubious) books about the Clintons and basically repeatedly almost got Barack Obama and his family in serious danger due to bizarre security lapses. (Do you remember the guy that shot the White House with a semiautomatic rifle and no one noticed for a few days until a housekeeper found broken glass?)
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Joe Biden has reason to be suspicious of the Secret Service. He spent 8 years working in the White House while Obama was Potus. I'm sure he saw and heard ... "stuff." While Chump was in office, Biden heard a lot more ... "stuff." Then Joe returns to the White House in 2021 amid the crazy coup attempt, and all the other messes that Chump left behind.
Who wouldn't be a little paranoid of the Secret Service under those conditions? They probably should have all been fired or at least reassigned.
…reporting Secret Service didn't like African Americans — or President Kennedy — in 1963.
Former U.S. Secret Service Agent Abraham BOLDEN was the first African American Secret Service agent to serve in the White House, personally appointed and literally hand-picked by President John F. Kennedy to the White House detail. Agent Abraham Bolden reported overt racism by his fellow agents and outright hostility toward the "n------loving president," quoting fellow Secret Service agents on the JFK detail.
In addition to enduring all manner of personal indignities, he was concerned at the lack of professionalism in those assigned to protect the president and reported his concerns. He was told, "OK. Thanks" by his superiors. When the problems weren't addressed, Bolden requested transfer back to the Secret Service office in Chicago.
President Biden recently pardoned Abraham Bolden
The story of a man who told the truth:
After 45 Years, a Civil Rights Hero Waits for Justice
Thom Hartmann
June 12, 2009 11:52 AM
A great miscarriage of justice has kept most Americas from learning about a Civil Rights pioneer who worked with President John F. Kennedy. But there is finally a way for citizens to not only right that wrong, but bring closure to the most tragic chapter of American presidential history.
After an outstanding career in law enforcement, Abraham Bolden was appointed by JFK to be the first African American presidential Secret Service agent, where he served with distinction. He was part of the Secret Service effort that prevented JFK's assassination in Chicago, three weeks before Dallas. But Bolden was framed by the Mafia and arrested on the very day he went to Washington to tell the Warren Commission staff about the Chicago attempt against JFK.
Bolden was sentenced to six years in prison, despite glaring problems with his prosecution. His arrest resulted from accusations by two criminals Bolden had sent to prison. In Bolden's first trial, an apparently biased judge told the jury that Bolden was guilty, even before they began their deliberations. Though granted a new trial because of that, the same problematic judge was assigned to oversee Bolden's second trial, which resulted in his conviction. Later, the main witness against Bolden admitted committing perjury against him. A key member of the prosecution even took the fifth when asked about the perjury. Yet Bolden's appeals were denied, and he had to serve hard time in prison, and today is considered a convicted felon.
After the release of four million pages of JFK assassination files in the 1990s, it became clear that Bolden -- and the official secrecy surrounding the Chicago attempt against JFK -- were due to National Security concerns about Cuba, that were unknown to Bolden, the press, Congress, and the public not just in 1963, but for the next four decades.
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Abraham Bolden paid a heavy price for trying to tell the truth about events involving the man he was sworn to protect -- JFK -- that became mired in National Security concerns. Bolden still lives in Chicago, and has never given up trying to clear his name.
Will Abraham Bolden live to finally see the justice so long denied to him?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/after-45-years-a-civil-ri_b_213834.html
After the assassination, he went to Washington on his own dime and reported what he saw to the Warren Commission. For his trouble -- and despite an exemplary record as a Brinks detective, Illinois State Trooper, and Secret Service agent -- Bolden was framed by the government using a paid informant's admitted perjury and spent a long time in prison. The government also drugged him and put him into psychiatric hospitals. His real crime was telling the truth.
Americans know the Truth: the country hasn't been the same since Nov. 22, 1963. President Kennedy kept the nation out of Vietnam and started toward the moon. Imagine what the New Frontier could have become for us today? Certainly would not be a time where "money trumps peace."