NBC News: Secret Service is appalled.
Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service’s chief of communication, said in the statement: “We stand united against any attempt to discredit our personnel and their invaluable contributions to our mission and are appalled by the disparaging and disgusting comments against any of our personnel.”
The Secret Service doesn’t get to be appalled after their appalling inability to keep Trump safe.
Diversity, equity and inclusion policies are corrosive to an organization because the people hired under DEI, cannot be fired or reprimanded. Sure, technically they can be, but the organization won’t because that undermines an important objective.
When DEI becomes a critical objective, it dilutes the core mission of the organization. Last year, the Secret Service declared it was their “ultimate objective to spread DEI within the agency”. Keeping people from being assassinated would be a better ultimate objective.
To me, it doesn’t appear that DEI was the problem. Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service, has made it clear in interviews that she is unfit to lead the agency. So far, it seems that she was brought in as the director at Jill Biden’s insistence. Cheatle met Jill while working at the Secret Service assigned to protecting the Biden family when Joe was the vice president.
The Secret Service, in a statement to NBC News, said that the criticism from pundits and influencers was baseless.
NBC News responded to the statement from the Secret Service, by producing this article filled with links to video and photos that seem to show female agents doing their jobs poorly.