USSS

    Comparing the Colombian Prostitute Scandal to Operation Fast & Furious.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 19th at 09:30 AM  | 

    So, we now what the priorities are when it comes to American law enforcement officials acting badly. Secret Service agents who patronize, then refuse to pay, Colombian prostitutes? People end up getting fired, investigated, and generally have their careers blighted, within days. DEA/DOJ officials who put cop-killing (and Mexican-civilian-killing) guns into the hands of Mexican narco-terrorist gangs? No firings. The bare minimum of non-Congressional investigations. | Read More »

    Secret Service: Actually, no elevated threat level against POTUS.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 4th at 12:00 PM  | 

    Via The Weekly Standard and HolyCoast.com comes excellent news: Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, testifying today about the state dinner security breach, refuted stories that President Obama has received more threats than previous presidents. “The threats are not up,” Sullivan said, adding that they receive about the same amount of threats against Obama as they did for presidents Clinton and Bush. Except of course for | Read More »

    Well, Senator Obama, at least you don’t have to blame *yourself* for the bad timing.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 18th at 12:40 AM  | 

    I gotta admit, Senator Obama – or, more accurately, whoever came up with this for you – this was a pretty slick trap that you set. You go out and create an anti-McCain ad that’s a: exceptionally dishonest; b: insulting to both him and Rush Limbaugh; c: has the potential to remind the rest of the GOP about it’s internal immigration dispute; and d: – | Read More »

    At first, I was angry that they had hacked Sarah Palin’s email account.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 17th at 05:14 PM  | 

    The details are here, here, here and here: they did it yesterday, apparently. And this angered me, until one of my fellow Contributors reminded me of a little, small, surely insignificant detail that apparently everyone involved with hacking the account, publishing the hack, and favorably publicizing the hack seem to have forgotten. Sarah Palin is now under the protection of the United States Secret Service, | Read More »