Tag Archives: U.S. Secret Service

I’ve said this before about other things, but it’s worth saying again in a new context. I find this news of the Secret Service operating with outdated and frequently malfunctioning, circa 1980s computer equipment, quite reassuring, actually.

As an old friend, a former government spook, likes to say, while hooting at the latest conspiracy theory of the paranoid: no agency of the federal government could find its ass with both hands. And thereby, my friends, our freedom is preserved. Imagine if they were actually efficient…

Via Dustbury.