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Showing Original Post only (View all)Re: the recent SS foul-ups and failings, to what do you attribute them? [View all]
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Incompetence and/or stupidity | |
9 (82%) |
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A specific murder plot | |
0 (0%) |
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Underfunding | |
1 (9%) |
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Something else | |
1 (9%) |
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Re: the recent SS foul-ups and failings, to what do you attribute them? [View all]
Dreamer Tatum
Sep 2014
OP
After listening to Director Pierson at the hearing this morning I'll take incompetence/stupidity
Sopkoviak
Sep 2014
#3
Other: They were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in 2003
Starry Messenger
Sep 2014
#4
This is what Mr. Whathell said: The SS shouldn't be a matter of political appointments.
whathehell
Sep 2014
#5
I know, we are accustomed to thinking of the SS as the elite crack security.
Starry Messenger
Sep 2014
#8
I don't know, honestly. It seems hard to make agencies in DC give up a power once they have it.
Starry Messenger
Sep 2014
#11