Oh Brother - Now The U.S. Secret Service Is Racist...

These professional political race-baiters are something else. The Washington Free Beacon can now add new item to their ongoing list….

WASHINGTON DC – As a lengthy record of U.S. Secret Service security lapses has been exposed, skepticism of the agency among African-Americans is growing, with an increasing number of blacks believing that agents who are supposed to be protecting President Barack Obama are deliberately dropping the ball. The latest scandal to plague the agency was reported on Friday, and involved a man who posed as a member of Congress and got close to the president while he delivered a speech.
“It is something that is widespread in black circles,” U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., who is black, told the New York Times. “I’ve been hearing this for some time: ‘Well, the Secret Service, they’re trying to expose the president.’ You hear a lot of that from African-Americans in particular.”

Repeated security failures led former Secret Service Director Julia Pierson to resign earlier this week after she lost the confidence of Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
The Secret Service scandal began with alleged fence-jumper Omar Gonzalez, who allegedly was carrying a knife when he accessed the White House on Sept. 19. Gonzalez, a 42-year-old Iraq War veteran, got as far as the East Room before he was subdued. (read more)