Paging Eric Holder
Remember how Eric Holder had threatened to disband the Ferguson, Mo., police department on the grounds it was racist?
And before that, how he was asking Judge Shira Scheindlin to grant his Justice Department oversight of the NYPD if the judge ruled against stop-and-frisk?
Well, maybe the Justice Department should look closer to home.
The Washington Post reports that two senior Secret Service agents one a member of President Obamas protective detail last week drove right through a White House barricade into an ongoing investigation, right next to a suspected bomb.
Overruling agents at the scene, a supervisor ordered the two men sent home without even a sobriety test; they were later given lenient temporary assignments.
This comes on top of other scandals at the agency, including agents use of prostitutes on overseas trips and a recent breach that saw a knife-wielding man get inside the White House.
The Secret Service, of course, is not the only federal police agency thats had its share of problems since Obama took office.
Thanks to administration stonewalling that saw Attorney General Eric Holder cited for contempt of Congress, we still dont know the full story behind the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Operation Fast and Furious in which licensed firearms wound up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
So were with Instapundits Glenn Reynolds on this one: Team Obama probably should spend more time fixing the law-enforcement agencies that are its responsibility rather than sliming ones that arent.
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Paging Eric Holder