re: How incompetent is the White House secret service detail?

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The first family wasn't on site.


So that might explain a lot of the laspe.

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Probably but it's still pretty bad.

The White House has enormous value as a symbol so you (obviously) still don't want something like this to happen because next time it could be Johnny Jihad with a grenade or a vest and then on worldwide TV we have pictures of a busted up home of the Leader of the Free World.

As Obama would say, it's "bad optics".