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Originally Posted by stevo
Secret Service is probably going to take some heat for this. It took them almost ten seconds to react. You would think they'd be more alert being in Iraq.
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The thing is that this could have been much worse. Imagine if that guy was wielding a ceramic knife, instead of a shoe, and knew how to use it. Bush wouldn't have had time to react.
Those agents are being reprimanded and will all have desk jobs by tomorrow.The attacker should have been taken down the minute he bent over to pick up his shoe. That is their job.
A US president is a US president and that situation makes the secret service look really inefficient and incompetent. Especially as the attacker had time to "reload" and launch another missile at the President again.
Once would have been a lapse in security. Twice is inexcusable.