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> They just wont give up the cover up. Here we are 60 years after the _murder_ of an elected President and we're still playing these games. Ridiculous. If you a
by lesuorac 1y ago
> They just wont give up the cover up. Here we are 60 years after the _murder_ of an elected President and we're still playing these games. Ridiculous. If you accept this as true then you have to accept the United States Secret Service was criminally incompetent in failing to stop a single "lone nut."
I didn't realize this was up for debate.
Which 3 letter agency did Thomas Crooks [1] work for?
Our security theater apparatus largely works because nobody is trying to kill a president.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Pennsylvania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Don...
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Our security theater apparatus largely works because nobody is trying to kill a president Eh, it’s halfway decent at thwarting schemes. Where it fails—where most law enforcement and counterterrorism fails—is in the lone-wolf case. (I’ll call it the Wallace’s dilemma.)
- cafard 1y agoIt worked for Ford, it sort of worked for Reagan--he was gravely wounded, but hit with only one bullet rather than several.
- pc86 1y agoThe lone nut is the hard thing to stop because even when they're not focused on super strict operational security, it's unlikely they're telling a ton of people about their plan. The more training they have, the more secluded they are, the less likely you are to have any chance of catching them ahead of time.