So the Secret Service has been cutting corners

[malaise]

and creating security prob;ems for President Obama.
You have to wonder.

[90-percent]

1. Yes, you do

I hope the President's motorcade isn't driving past any school book depositories any time soon!

-90% Jimmy

[appal_jack]

11. Especially w/ a B*sh appointee at the helm...

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is a B*sh appointee. Why Obama is standing by him is absolutely beyond my comprehension.

K&R

-app

[Octafish]

2. The Secret Service has a checkered history.

For details, please GOOGLE Abraham Bolden.

[malaise]

3. Wow

Never knew - thanks

[Octafish]

4. Have you seen this?: Henry J. Rybka -- The Secret Service Agent who asked: ''Why?''

From footage found, IIRCOTTOMH, in a dumpster outside ABC Dallas in the late 90's:



Video: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/171830/secret_service_jfk /

Afterward, in William Manchester's book, Death of a President, we see the "official story" of what happened:

"Kennedy grew weary of seeing bodyguards roosting behind him every time he turned around, and in Tampa on November 18 (1963), just four days before his death, he dryly asked Agent Floyd Boring to 'keep those Ivy League charlatans off the back of the car.' Boring wasn't offended. There had been no animosity in the remark." (1988 Harper & Row/Perennial Library edition, pp. 37-38)

The thing is PRESIDENT KENNEDY NEVER SAID THAT.

Not until 35 years later do we learn the truth, though, when the great investigator Vincent Palamara asked the Secret Service agents who were there what happened in 1963:

Agents Go On Record

[Fumesucker]

5. Interesting body language..

[Octafish]

6. Agent Rybka seemed to express shock at the order to get off the bumper.

Three times, Rybka holds up his arms in the classic "what the heck" gesture. The video also shows SS agent Emory P. Roberts ordered the protection to stand down. President Kennedy was murdered a few minutes later. From Vince Palamara:

THE RYBKA TAPE -- An important discovery was made by this correspondent during review of video of the Dallas trip shot by the ABC television affiliate in that city. During the start of the fatal motorcade at Love Field, Secret Service agent Henry J. Rybka begins to jog alongside the presidential limousine. He is immediately called back by his shift leader and commander of the follow-up car detail, Emory P. Roberts.

Rybka's dismay and confusion is made manifest by his unambiguous body language: He throws up his arms several times before, during and after the follow-up car passes him. He was not being allowed to do his job -- and it was not JFK who was ordering the stand-down.

Despite the discovery by this correspondent of three reports to the contrary (two by Roberts) written on November 22, 1963, this newly discovered photographic evidence confirms that frustrated and vocal-in-his-objections Rybka did not enter the follow-up car and was left behind at the airport.

[malaise]

8. They should waterboard GHWB for the truth

[Octafish]

9. I'd settle for a Grand Jury appearance by the former head of America Inc's GESTAPO.

As I'm against torture and consider it un-American, telling the truth would be the least he could do, especially in regards to that day -- a memory which brought back a chuckle to him at the funeral for Gerald Ford.



Poppy Bush brought up JFK Assassination and ''Conspiracy Theorists'' at Ford Funeral

And people wonder why Corporate McPravda barely grumbled when the same guy, years later, pardoned Caspar Weinberger and the rest of his Iran-Contra traitor co-conspirators.

[malaise]

10. I remember his comments at the Ford funeral well

[Octafish]

7. Agent Bolden was personally selected by JFK to serve as the first African American SS agent...

...to serve in the White House presidential protection detail. He discovered the agency was filled with racist conservatives who HATED President Kennedy and were lax in their protection. After being subjected to treatment and ridicule that would make lesser men violent, he quit. After Dallas, he approached the Warren Commission with his accusations. For his trouble, he was railroaded and put into federal custody, including the penitentiary and psych wards. In reality and for history, Mr. Bolden is a hero.

Some background for those still interested in how we got to where we are:

Former Agent: Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago Foiled Before Assassination


Ex-Secret Service agent reveals Chicago JFK plot

The great author and journalist Edwin Black broke the story, "The Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago," way back when (PDF, from the Wayback Machine, seeing how these things only last so long--please download and archive):

http://web.archive.org/web/20110111052522/http://www.blackopradio.com/The%20Chicago%20Plot%20by%20Edwin%20Black.pdf