I don't think the media gets it regarding the secret service.

[triron]

It wasn't a breakdown in communications or failure to believe that the capitol would be attacked. That's what the criminals in the ss want people to believe. No, there were traitors in the ss that knew it was likely but intentionally did nothing. Why do you think the texts were deleted? By accident?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Y'know it's one thing to take a job where you will take a bullet for POTUS.

It's another thing to become part of the overthrow of the USA b/c POTUS wants to.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Somehow committing crimes became part of the SS job description.

[DSandra]

23. All the far right needs to do is to infiltrate and take over law enforcement and the SS

[Lasher]

30. 16 years ago the FBI warned us this has been happening

FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?

Oct 21, 2016

Increased attention toward the killing of black men and women by police throughout the past year has ignited national conversations on racism and law enforcement. From Freddie Gray in April 2015 to Deborah Danner — an “emotionally disturbed” woman fatally shot this week by an NYPD officer — protests around the country have forced many Americans to reassess how police engage with communities of color.

In light of — or perhaps despite — the increased scrutiny, FBI director James Comey told police officers at a national conference last Sunday that because of insufficient data on use of force, “Americans actually have no idea” whether racial bias in policing is really an epidemic. Pointing to current public outrage over police killings of African-Americans, Comey said “the absence of good information” and data has aided in the growing belief that police officers target particular communities.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

And to this day, not one single thing has been done about it.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. Their Job Is To Protect The Office Holder

Their loyalty needs to be the the safety of the person holding the office.
Who it is doesn't matter! Obviously, somebody chose loyalty to a person over their loyalty to the office.

[no_hypocrisy]

42. Yup!

[onecaliberal]

2. The oath keepers were directly calling the SS. Pence didn't get in the car because he knew.

The fascist media DOES get it, the problem is they support the lies.

[DENVERPOPS]

47. Bingo, onecaliberal

80+% of all Media in the U.S. is owned by wealthy Republicans...........

[True Blue American]

52. Pence made it clear he knew what they would do.

For once in 4 years Pence stood up. He also helped Nancy and Schumer to get the Congress back in session by making sure they had security.

I will never make light of what Pence did that day. I think he had no idea what he was signing on for by accepting the VP.

[deelee]

56. Maybe he had no idea

But everyone else knew who he was hooking with, and then he had four years to figure it out. On 1/6 he was ONLY really worried about his own safety. Now, afterward, he could testify, but doesn't. Screw him

[True Blue American]

57. What ever we think

Pence did the right, lawful thing that day.

[McKim]

54. Yes!!!!

Yes!!!! The media doesn’t WANT to get it!

[llashram]

58. yep, concise and true

[RockRaven]

3. It's not a bad apple. It's the barrel.

But the barrel is very happy for the media to make that mistake.

[Jade Fox]

4. Agree

[cilla4progress]

5. Agree that it was intentional

from the very top.

That's who tfg installed.

[SheltieLover]

6. It was a conspiracy to overthrow our govt!

Call it what it is!

[Duppers]

29. ✔️✔️

[SheltieLover]

33. ...

[relayerbob]

7. Agreed

The SS didn't "ignore" warnings, they participated in the planning. Trump didn't avoid calling in the Guard, he actively led the attack. The head of the Capitol Police didn't fail to prepare his people, he was in on it, and intentionally withheld weapons and planning. And on and on.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yes I agree.

There were a lot of other people who participated in the attack.
Trump did not do this by himself.

[bottomofthehill]

12. You may be right on some of this as much of the secret service stayed in place after 1/6

But at the capitol, the Chief of the USCP and the House and SENATE Sergeants at Arms we’re all gone within 48 hours of the attack.

[SheltieLover]

35. But not locked up.

[SheltieLover]

34. It was obvious watching it unfold that it was planned & well coordinated

[relayerbob]

39. Oh yeah

A major giveaway was that Trump wasn't whisked off by helicopter as soon as the mob brkoe into the Capitol. Although it was obvious before that, also.

[SheltieLover]

41. That & that police allowed that circus.

If people showed up to rob a bank, cops wouldn't be holding doors open for them.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. That is the reality. And Corporate McPravda ownership know.

Should the reporting be straight-up factual — meaning with the full resources of the free press behind the reporters, investigators and analysts — and the traitors would be named, indicted and tried.

Seeing how these crooks also work for the same class as the owners of the mass media, it won’t happen without a Democratically led Congress and Executive.

Only Uncle Sam can level the economic playing field, a park that includes the political playground.

[FakeNoose]

11. When Chump became Potus in 2017, he didn't trust the Secret Service

Chump had his own bodyguard - Keith Schiller - who had worked for him for over 20 years. Schiller came to the White House with Chump, but once John Kelly came in as Chief of Staff, Schiller decided to leave. I guess Schiller thought HE was going to be Chief of Staff, I don't know.

So Chump lost his "best buddy" and he had to hand-pick from the Secret Service the few guys who would become his "trusted right hand" guys. For them loyalty was everything, taking an oath to uphold the Constitution meant nothing.

It's all part of the story of how the White House turned into the Mafia under Chump.

(link) https://people.com/politics/president-trump-bodyguard-keith-schiller-leaving-white-house/

[BadgerMom]

13. On the contrary, I think the media DOES get it regarding the Secret Service.

They’re on the same side. They don’t want their audience to get it.

[triron]

15. Yes I suspected that too. Perhaps should have added

That in my post.

[GreenWave]

14. They save their asses lock step.

[Thunderbeast]

16. Trump wanted an "alternate" private military

He cobbled it together with Secret Service, INS, prison guards, and Federal Protective Service.

These paramilitary forces showed up in Portland without ID making illegal arrests.

[paleotn]

22. His own Praetorian Guard.

[SunSeeker]

17. It is pretty clear the SS was complicit.

Link to tweet

[onetexan]

26. Goodness, fox watching the henhouse

SMH

[Joinfortmill]

18. Agree.

[live love laugh]

19. The media won't even connect the missing msgs with

the intentional breakdown in communications.

[dlk]

20. The Media gets it

We can’t ever forget it’s the owners and execs have their own agenda that colors everything that gets written and produced; and their agenda doesn’t always mesh with democracy—one reason we see so much infotainment in place of hard news.

[spanone]

21. ...K&R...

Joe Biden to have new Secret Service team amid concern about Trump loyalty

Thu 31 Dec 2020 11.48 EST

Joe Biden is expected to receive Secret Service protection with a new team that is more familiar to him and replacing some agents amid concerns that they may be politically allied with Donald Trump.

In a changing of the guard as well as the man to be guarded at the White House, Biden’s security detail will undergo some staffing changes, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Several “senior” Secret Service agents are poised to return to the president-elect’s protection team and Biden knows these agents well because they guarded him and his family during his time as vice-president, according to the article, echoed in a report by CNN, citing a law enforcement source.....

....Although staffing changes are typical, several incidents reportedly contributed to the heightened concerns from Biden’s allies that some agents and officers might be loyal to Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/31/joe-biden-secret-service-team-trump-loyalty

[Magoo48]

24. They only get and report what their corporate censors allow them to get and report.

It’s not that we on DU are generally smarter than the media, we are simply free to discuss what we see and deduce. They are not.

[dchill]

25. Yep. Part of the plot.

[ms liberty]

27. Yes, and Major was a good boi. He should have bitten more of them. n/t

[SunSeeker]

36. Yes indeed. nt

[PatrickforB]

28. Absolutely! Key SS members committed TREASON.

Honestly, Biden needs to clean house in the SS, NSA, State, CIA, and FBI.

Let's get people in there who will die to protect the republic, not who will commit treason so one guy can stay in power.

[Heather MC]

31. Perhaps in some ways the media is in on it

I was watching the news on the coverage and all the media was talking about was a clip from Nancy Pelosi exands she would punch Donald Trump in the face

I have yet to find anyone in the media that actually discussed the really big huge moment

When Pat Sips Alone

Screw the pooch when he answered the question ""who in the White House did not want the TERRORIST to leave the CAPITOL‽

He thought the question was "who on the staff and did not want the terrorists to leave the capitol?

Before he answered the question Liz Chaney corrected him corrected him and said "in the White House"

He responded "no one absolutely no 1 wanted them to stay in the Capitol"

And then he tried to say oh I was talking about the staff, And Adam shift com and Liz Chaney made sure he understood that he answered the question about everyone in the White House including the president of the United States.

Pat Sips Alone, just got really quiet and he realized he couldn't correct his answer without implicating Donald Trump.

This entire exchange starts if you're watching C-span when the clock is at 2:55.

So don't take my word for it. Go find it and see for yourself.

And yet for some reason the media chose to focus on Nancy polosi threatening to punch Donald Trump in the face🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

How's that for absolutely useless media?

[triron]

37. Can you help with a link?

[Heather MC]

38. Absolutely 💜

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217255997

[triron]

40. Thanks.

[reACTIONary]

43. I believe the texts were deleted...

... by accident. Furthermore, I don't believe any of those texts would have had any more information in them than the 1.5 million documents that have been turned over. There isn't any evidence that the there are criminals or traitors in the secret service. If and when such evidence turns up, I'm sure they will be dealt with accordingly.

[Stuart G]

44. Agree Completely. K and R.

[Ford_Prefect]

45. There were stories about the W edition of the White House which ran that he, Cheney and the PNAC mob

were paranoid about anyone at all knowing what they were up to. This lead to a particular POV at SS being prevalent under his regime. Much like DJT personal loyalty was emphasized along with mistrust of the rest of government. We saw that same perversion acted out by Cheney and the PNAC crew when they built a parallel CIA, DOD, and State Dept. intelligence apparatus to facilitate their policy goals in Iraq and elsewhere.

One of the significant flaws of the Obama years was the retention of people who were essentially agents in place for W's distortion of government. He kept far too many Bush/Cheney/PNAC loyalists in the name of fair play. The Obama Staff along with the DNC never seemed to grasp just how committed those people are to the PNAC vision of American empire and governance.

That situation laid the ground for the next GOP Conservative to take the office and continue the retreading of American government. We are seeing much the same in the current revelations about FBI, DOJ, DOD and other agency staff being loyal to DJT and the Christian Fascist agenda.

The national media doesn't "get it" because they trade in cultural myth and symbols of the same as something easily digested by the average grocery shopper (who is actually their target audience). Anything which requires additional thought by the reader/viewer is considered a waste of time even if the distinctions are significant ones. Why is that? Column inches used to be the excuse. Click time is the cause now. If it doesn't fit on a phone screen as a headline with remarks it doesn't get run. You supposedly have between 3 to 7 seconds before the average phone user or tablet surfer moves to the next available headline.

[Cozmo]

46. No, no, no, they get it. MSM favors the right. They're responsible for getting tfg elected

[Samrob]

50. THIS

[markodochartaigh]

48. Some Media

Some media outlets do cover it, Free Speech TV, Progressive Voices, Pacifica Radio, local progressive radio stations in some cities. We need to support the media sources which report facts.

[KPN]

49. The press is weak kneed and spineless. Money is more important than honor.

[krkaufman]

51. Lather, rinse, repeat

Sadly, this isn’t really new information, even if the media wants to treat it as new. Just think back to the b-s rationalizations offered by Comey for his pre-election announcement from: email investigation … concern that the info would be leaked (by FBI agents).

[RVN VET71]

53. Trump wanted and was successful at developing his own praetorian guard

Parts of the USSS and the FBI were on the job to protect him and keep him in power. Pence's refusal to get in the car provided supposedly to take him to safety demonstrated this fact very dramatically and clearly. The VP may not have known if those particular Secret Service agents were there to kidnap and or murder him -- but for chrissakes, he was clearly suspicious and distrustful enough to refuse their efforts to get him into the car.

Trump doesn't know what the praetorian guard was to the emperors of Rome because Trump is an ignorant pig. But he knows instinctively -- as did those emperors --that he needed to cultivate an armed elite service for his protection and, ultimately (in, say, a second term) carry out his orders regardless of whether they violate basic constitutional principles. And this he managed to do by culling the ranks of the USSS and FBI and military for fascists willing to sell out their own comrades and country for a piece of power.

[llashram]

55. no

truth...traitors were involved as they were in the Senate and House and still are there.