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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, April 8, 2022

This Story Is Just Weird As Hell

 The recent arrest of two men who have been trying to infiltrate - in some, as yet unclear way - the Secret Service is just bonkers. 

This feels like an undercooked attempt by someone - Pakistan? Iran? Saudi Arabia? - to infiltrate the Secret Service details that guard the...First Lady? Hunh? Or maybe it was just the Secret Service in general? Or maybe these are wannabe "hard guys" who like palling around with Secret Service agents and making themselves seem like Big Shots. Why admit to being connected to Pakistani intelligence at your arraignment? That's not something spies usually do. "Ya got me! Guess I'll confess everything! Good job, you guys."

Anyway, the specifics are just nuts, but it also isn't the first time the Secret Service has sat on their own balls. There's something broken over there.

Finally, my favorite part of the story is that you have these guys - whoever they are - buying influence with the Secret Service, who are supposed be elite law enforcement officers.

But they get discovered by a US Postal Service Inspector.

I can't wait for the Coen Brothers to make this into a movie.

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