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Regarding the security breach by a Chinese woman carrying two (???) passports, four cell phones, a laptop, and a hard drive into Maralago:
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According to documents released today, Zhang showed up at Mar-a-Lago March 28 and told the Secret Service she was on her way to the club's pool. After passing the initial security checkpoint and taking a brief ride with club staff on a golf cart, Zhang was confronted by an employee in the main reception area. The club wasn't able to match Zhang's name to anyone on its member list. Employees alerted the Secret Service.
Actually no one really “failed”. The problem is that it’s no one’s job.
The Secret Service said in a statement that the agency “does not determine who is invited or welcome at Mar-a-Lago; this is the responsibility of the host entity. The Mar-a-Lago Club’s management determines which members and guests are granted access to the property. This access does not afford an individual proximity to the President or other Secret Service protectees.”
In Saturday’s incident, the individual was screened and “immediately met by club reception. The Mar-a-Lago reception staff then determined that the individual should not have been authorized access by their staff and Secret Service agents took immediate action resulting in the arrest of the individual,” the statement said.
The Secret Service is responsible for the president‘s personal safety. They are covering their asses and making clear that is their only job.
You don’t want to offend those million dollar members after all!
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Don Mihalek, executive vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, which represents the Secret Service, said the episode showed how much the Secret Service relied on the security at Mar-a-Lago.
He said the fact that Secret Service agents apparently relied on the determination by a Mar-a-Lago security agent that Ms. Zhang was related to a member of the club — simply because she shared the member’s last name — was problematic.
“It’s a hard position for Secret Service to be in to potentially deny a million-dollar committee member,” Mr. Mihalek said. “It puts Secret Service in a very difficult position because we don’t know who are members and who aren’t.”
This is a security vacuum that has been created by Trump’s adoption of this resort as his other White House, a place so hideous and oppressive he has to get away from it as much as possible, at a cost of millions of dollars each time . After all, he “doesn’t get to control travel costs says Sarah Sanders (but he can “authorize” Special Olympics funding and close down the Mexican border in one fell swoop).
“How can the president of the United States be spending his weekends in this club with all these people coming in and out?” Leamer said, noting that Trump’s private quarters are located in the middle of the busy grounds. “I thought inevitably something was going to happen. And thank God it was a fairly benign thing” in this case, he said, with no apparent physical danger to the president.
Yeah, thank God. What on the ever loving earth qualifies this as a “fairly benign thing” and how can he even make such a judgment?
Imagine how lax the security is when Trump is not there
But remind me that sending emails, classified after the fact, on a private server, was the greatest risk to our national security ever. www.google.com/...
