The Secret Service Has A New Leader, Same As The Old Leader (Ep. 2295) - 07/26/2024
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Summary:
The outrage around the Secret Service catastrophe begins to die down as a new USSS acting director was named. But this should only fuel the fire of contempt. In this episode, I discuss the shocking similarities between Kim Cheatle and Ronald Rowe, even more new developments in the assassination case, as well as the incoming freight train that is Kamala Harris for President.
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The outrage around the Secret Service catastrophe begins to die down as a new USSS acting director was named. But this should only fuel the fire of contempt. In this episode, I discuss the shocking similarities between Kim Cheatle and Ronald Rowe, even more new developments in the assassination case, as well as the incoming freight train that is Kamala Harris for President.
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00:00I want to welcome back to the show a former colleague of mine, a friend, a good guy, a
00:04very talented agent during his time with the Secret Service.
00:08Former agent with the Secret Service, Charles Chuck Marino.
00:11Chuck, welcome back to the show, we appreciate it.
00:13Hey, Dan, thanks for having me.
00:16Of course, you've been doing some really excellent and honest commentary, folks, on this, and
00:21I think a lot of the working agents you and I worked with really appreciate it.
00:26Because Chuck, I think you, as well as I, are getting a ton of emails from both formers
00:31and active agents that are absolutely horrified by this apocalyptic abomination of a security
00:37failure.
00:38And just to be clear, from guys like you and I, who have not been part of security failures
00:42like this, thankfully, there's no excuse for this.
00:45This is just an abject failure.
00:49You know, Dan, you're right, and I've got to tell you what's blowing my mind is this,
00:54that building was outside the security perimeter.
00:58And I think it's been bad messaging from the start, from the former director of the Secret
01:03Service, because threats like that are what drive the established perimeters.
01:09So you and I both know, you walk out there, you say, this building's too close, it's got
01:14a line of sight.
01:15You know what?
01:16That's in our perimeter, and we're going to secure it accordingly.
01:19Instead of making it sound like it was just left up in the air, you know, for the cops
01:24to come up with their own plan to secure it.
01:27And that's, you know, ever since that description, it's been breaking bad for the service.
01:31Yeah.
01:32Talking to Chuck Marino, former Secret Service agent.
01:35Chuck, I heard you on Fox providing that commentary this morning, and I was at the table, pounding
01:40the table like, yes, the threat determines the security asset allocation, not the other
01:46way around.
01:48The counter-sniper unit of the Secret Service recognizes threats out to roughly 1,000 yards,
01:55which a super-competent sniper in a ghillie suit could pull off.
01:59You're 100% correct.
02:00We don't just go, well, it's kind of hot, and that building's 130 yards, but whatever,
02:06man.
02:07Like, Alicia Silverstone and Clueless, like, that's not what we do.
02:11But let me ask you one question here as well.
02:13Again, you haven't done hundreds of advances yourself.
02:17The advance agent, as you well know, is at the site way before the protectee shows up.
02:23So whoever the advance agent is that day, is there hours before Donald Trump arrives
02:29on the scene.
02:30What me as a former agent, I think you were kind of curious about as well, want to put
02:35words in your mouth, if the advance agent was there that day and knew this was a threat,
02:39there's going to be some CSU and CS vulnerability assessment that's going to show that that
02:44line of sight in that particular building was a threat from an elevation standpoint,
02:48then how the hell did they let the site go unmanned?
02:52Even if they agreed that it was a local post, which I hear they agreed, and they said, oh,
02:57it's too hot, then why not come up with a different strategy, like, hey, you know what,
03:02we'll rotate poststanders in and out to make sure nobody goes up there.
03:06Or Chuck, things you and I have done, like, we'll block the line of sight to at least
03:10make sure they can't see Donald Trump on the stage.
03:12There were other ways to fix this.
03:15It's like they forgot about the effective implementation part, right, to go check on
03:21things that are supposed to be posted by state and local law enforcement.
03:25Look, if it's not being covered to the satisfaction of that site agent, then he's got to fix it
03:30and he's got to fix it quick.
03:33But this should all be done well in advance.
03:34As you said, this should all be coordinated, the lines of communication, everything that
03:39you and I are hearing today about, you know, no communication between state and local law
03:44enforcement, this finger pointing, which is bad for all agencies.
03:49None of this should happen.
03:51This would have taken, you know, us five minutes to say that building is a threat.
03:56Here's what we're going to do.
03:57It better be posted.
03:59And I'm going to be back here the morning of the event.
04:01And I'm going to check on it and keep checking on it.
04:04Yeah.
04:05Talking to Chuck Marino, former Secret Service agent with a lot of experience in this.
04:09Chuck, that that segues nicely to my next question.
04:13You know, you and I both know that security is treated as a three dimensional bubble,
04:18not a circle on a piece of paper that that moves with the protectee.
04:23So 360 degree, three dimensional security bubbles mean above and below.
04:27That's a serious issue in New York, where if the president's walking on the street,
04:31there's a train station below.
04:33We might man that.
04:34We have NYPD down there, but we also always keep assets overhead for a number of reasons.
04:40You want to make sure a plane doesn't crash into the site.
04:42It's not like that's happened before.
04:44I mean, I say sarcastic.
04:45I mean, this stuff has actually happened.
04:47How in the hell did the air security branch not have a hundred dollar drone up there or
04:55a FLIR or a Huntsman or something just to look down on the site and say, hey, we got
05:00a guy on the roof who shouldn't be there.
05:02I mean, this is inexcusable to not have eyeballs in the sky.
05:05Look, my understanding is they've got a program.
05:11Field offices have the tools to deploy.
05:15And so why this technology wasn't deployed and used the Secret Service is going to have
05:20to explain.
05:22But it's unacceptable, especially the airspace needs to be closed.
05:26That needs to be ensured.
05:27Look, former President Trump is a high enough level on the threat assessment scale to be
05:35practically equivalent to the president of the United States based on actions that he
05:40took during his presidency against state actors like Iran and his visibility and policy decisions
05:48now.
05:49So look, give him the highest level of protection.
05:52The airspace needs to be closed.
05:55Drone mitigation needs to be a part of the plan.
05:57And for anything less, it's inexcusable.
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07:07Talking to Chuck Marino, former Secret Service agent.
07:09Chuck, one of the questions I find baffling, which still we have not been given a candid,
07:15honest answer on, is from multiple sources that are feeding me and others information,
07:21the Secret Service knew between 15 and 20 minutes out conclusively, I would say it's
07:26probably earlier, but let's just work with that timeline for now because that's enough.
07:31About 15 or 20 minutes out that there was an unmitigated threat out there, a man outside
07:36what they claim is their secure perimeter roaming around range finder backpack.
07:42I mean, these are all furtive type suspicious movements which should have stopped President
07:47Trump to protect you that day from walking out on stage.
07:50There's a room at these sites called the holding room everybody knows about.
07:53The president goes there to hold when there's a threat.
07:56I can't think of one possible reason why this wasn't relayed to the shift to say, hey, just
08:02keep them in the limo, keep them in the truck or keep them in the holding room until we
08:08can figure out what's going on.
08:09I mean, it's not like the networks weren't going to wait a few minutes on these speeches.
08:13They're late all the time.
08:14Yeah.
08:15You know, we're starting to see with this significant failure in the plan.
08:19All the other cracks starting to be exposed.
08:23And we're going to see it significantly in communications in that area.
08:28Like me, I can't figure it out because as you and I both know, this is nothing elaborate.
08:33It's the counterpart system literally sitting side by side with law enforcement agencies
08:39that are participating in the security plan.
08:42So for the life of me, like you, I still can't figure out how the communication didn't flow
08:47here in this situation.
08:50But you're right.
08:51Yeah.
08:52Should have never gone the stage with based on the timing that you're saying.
08:56And you're right.
08:57It was probably longer.
08:58Yeah.
08:59I'm sorry to mean interrupt.
09:01Yeah.
09:02I'm having a tough time because people like you and I did this for a living.
09:05I was on my friend Glenn, Glenn Beck show this morning.
09:08You know, Glenn has no Secret Service experience whatsoever.
09:11And Chuck, he's asking questions that both guys like you and me can't I can't answer
09:16without attributing to malice or stupidity.
09:19I really can't find an option C and it's driving me bananas.
09:24Let me ask you another question.
09:26So there are friends of ours who I think you and I both know there is a significant email
09:31trail here about security requests for enhancements to the Donald Trump detail, the DTD.
09:36Right. There's an email trail.
09:38There have been there have been white papers out there.
09:40I have this on good authority, let's just say.
09:43You know, what I found bizarre was former director, thankfully, Kim Cheadle's testimony
09:47under oath yesterday trying to evade this basic question.
09:51I mean, if you're going to take responsibility and I, quote, say the buck stops here, which
09:55is what she did, then part of it is to say, hey, listen, we failed.
09:59There were requests for security enhancements in the past.
10:02We denied them.
10:03These repeated denials probably led to a failure to request them anymore.
10:08I mean, if I'm telling you a thousand times I need antiviral protection, you say, no,
10:12my computer gets hacked.
10:13You don't have any easy excuse.
10:14You should have said yes.
10:15I mean, she really she she's was risking perjury yesterday with some of these dangerous answers.
10:22Well, that was a train wreck yesterday and again, not being transparent with members
10:28of Congress, you know, giving two interviews, leaking the opening statement, none of this
10:34was good and certainly not in the spirit of the Secret Service, for sure, which is why
10:40she's now the former director.
10:42But look, this happened on her watch.
10:44She's got to take responsibility for all of this.
10:47And if there were numerous requests, which you and I know there were, then she should
10:52have articulated why they were denied that.
10:56That's not part of the investigation by the bureau right now.
10:59They're looking at the assassination attempt.
11:01She could have freely spoke about this and said, here was the decision I made.
11:05I denied it.
11:06I stood by it.
11:08And here's why.
11:09But she didn't even do that.
11:10Which tells me she knows it was the wrong decision.
11:14And I'm hoping for the life of me, it wasn't a political decision.
11:18Oh, gosh, I'm hoping to talk to Chuck Marino, former Secret Service agent, former colleague
11:24and a friend.
11:25Chuck, last question.
11:26And I'd like to get your take on this.
11:27And you may not agree.
11:28And that's fine.
11:29I'm asking you candidly and seriously, because I like your answer.
11:32I think one of the problems with the Secret Service right now is this commingled investigative
11:37mission.
11:38I get it.
11:39The history of the Secret Service with counterfeiting.
11:41I understand the whole thing.
11:42There's been this ethos in the past, this mythological story.
11:45We tell each other that, oh, my gosh, it makes people better protection agents.
11:48No, protection makes people better protection agents.
11:51I don't play football to become a better baseball player.
11:53The Secret Service needs a field office system.
11:56But the Secret Service, you don't have to transfer everyone to a protection detail.
11:59You'd probably lose everyone.
12:00But you could keep them in the field doing threat cases, critical infrastructure analysis.
12:05I mean, you know, we have firemen some days who, you know, they don't have a fire.
12:09They don't go start a fire because they're there to be reactive to a fire that I think
12:14we need to dump this investigative mission.
12:16It's creating way too many problems with the travel rotation.
12:20You know, court cases for people.
12:22We need these guys dedicated to this mission.
12:24We've seen what happens when we fail.
12:26Your thoughts on that?
12:28I agree with you 100 percent.
12:30And I'll say it a different way.
12:32You can't complain that you're constantly being asked to do more with less and keep
12:38raising your left hand up asking for more.
12:41Look, you're not going to get this type of coverage for screwing up a counterfeit
12:45investigation. You and I both know that protection is where it's at.
12:50It's the number one priority of the Secret Service.
12:53They're the best in the world at it and they need to keep doing that.
12:56So they've got to focus their attention, all their resources on protection related
13:03functions. I agree with you.
13:04Protective intelligence, critical infrastructure, technical security, all of that
13:11stuff. But it's got the foundation has to be protection going forward and give those
13:18investigations back to Treasury or wherever else.
13:23Really, I don't use the Lord's name in vain, but thank God, because I'm glad a smart
13:27guy like yourself, who I believe in and trust and work with, feels the same way we did.
13:32This does not mean guys will be on 24 hour protection.
13:35It just means we will focus exclusively on threat cases, critical infrastructure, things
13:41directly related to the protective function.
13:43And you're right. We can't keep raising our hand going, we'll take NSSEs, National
13:47Special Security Vets. Oh, we'll take e-crimes, electronic crimes.
13:51You're right. You can't make both arguments.
13:53Hey, we're doing too much. Hey, give us more.
13:55It doesn't work that way. Chuck Marino, you've been fantastic.
13:58Follow him, Charles Marino on Axies.
14:00Had some really, really super insightful commentary.
14:04You see him on Fox, on cable news.
14:06Just really great work.
14:07Chuck, thanks for telling the truth.
14:08I'm getting a lot of feedback from mutual friends who appreciate you being an honest
14:12voice, man. We got to fix this thing and not just complain about it.
14:14Thanks for your time. We appreciate it.
14:16Well, likewise, you too, Dan.
14:17Thanks. You're the best.
14:18Thank you. You got it, buddy.
14:20I work with that guy, folks.
14:21That guy's legit.
14:22I'm telling you, there are good guys who really, really are absolutely 100 percent
14:27committed to fixing this apocalyptic security failure.
14:31They are embarrassed.
14:32They are horrified.
14:34If I could, I would read you the hundreds,
14:39more than hundreds of texts from people I've worked with in law enforcement
14:43in the service who are.
14:45Absolutely, I don't even have the words, the modifiers and adjectives and adverbs
14:49to describe how disgusted they are about what happened.
14:53Fix it or someone's going to die.
14:57Someone did die.
14:59Corey, compare it to her.
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