Reply #110: Yes, I'll defend.

[AllTooEasy]

Is the issue with Obama or the Secret Service? In many respects, the secret service does what it wants and the President(their boss) can't do anything about it. For instance, there was time when you could drive right past the WH gates. After a mad man opened unloaded an AKA from the sidewalk in the WH's direction during Clinton's administration, the Secret Service blocked off surrounding streets. You can walk pass the WH after you go through security check, but it's all blocked off to cars now, traffic congestion is worse, and it's an eye soar. Clinton tried several times to reopen the streets and...drum role please...the Secret Service (Clinton's employee's) told him NO! The WH area still looks like crap! You can google all of this.

I would like to see the records open, but I'm not sure where my WTF should be directed now that I know that the Secret Sevice is envoled. I understand and appreciate their job and sacrifice, but those guys can snatch the president off his wife in mid stroke if their rational has anything to do with "the president's safety". Their unchecked discretion has always worried me.