Secret Service

Obama is supposed to be under the protection of the Secret Service, yet they ordered police to turn off the metal detectors at a rally in Dallas. Something sounds really fishy there.

Just another problem our next President gets to fix:

The arrest of a man named Steven Howards in June 2006 after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney at a Colorado ski resort and denounced the war in Iraq might have seemed, at the time, no more than a blip on the vice president’s schedule.

But now the blip has become a blowup, with Secret Service agents — under oath in court depositions — accusing one another of unethical and perhaps even illegal conduct in the handling of Mr. Howards’s arrest and the official accounting of it.

The revelations arise from a lawsuit Mr. Howards filed against five Secret Service agents, accusing them of civil rights and free-speech violations. They offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Secret Service, which usually wears the standoffish, plainclothes cool of its mission like a cloak of invisibility.

Yup the President's own secret police make up their own laws, which go against the very laws the President swears to defend. How is that for irony?