{"id":3663,"date":"2026-07-27T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vandeman.org\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2026-07-27T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:22:22","slug":"kak-sekretnaja-sluzhba-ssha-usss-poterjala-status-samoj-jeffektivnoj-sluzhby-v-mire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vandeman.org\/en\/kak-sekretnaja-sluzhba-ssha-usss-poterjala-status-samoj-jeffektivnoj-sluzhby-v-mire\/","title":{"rendered":"How The U.S. Secret Service Lost Its Status As The World\u2019s Most Effective Protective Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The United States Secret Service (USSS) is responsible for the safety of the country\u2019s top officials, their families, and key government facilities like the White House. But the assassination attempts on Donald Trump laid bare the agency\u2019s outright incompetence and exposed a deep-seated systemic crisis that cannot be resolved without a fundamental overhaul of the Secret Service.

In 2024, Trump \u2013 then still a presidential candidate \u2013 came within inches of being killed during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, even though bystanders had tipped off security personnel about an armed man well in advance. It was the most embarrassing failure in the agency\u2019s modern history. The Secret Service made a boneheaded blunder, leaving a rooftop just 140 meters from the stage completely unsecured \u2013 and that is where the shooter opened fire. The director stepped down afterward. Representative Ryan Zinke called the incident an \u201cabsolute security failure.\u201d Congressman Barry Loudermilk suggested that the debacle was made possible by diversity and inclusion agendas creeping into Secret Service hiring practices.

Yet despite the high-profile scandal and the subsequent Senate hearings, the U.S. Secret Service not only failed to learn from its mistakes but has since slid into a pattern of systemic breakdowns. In the first half of 2026 alone, at least two major incidents have exposed the agency\u2019s low professional standards. The first came on April 25, 2026, when 31-year-old California schoolteacher Cole Thomas Allen calmly walked into the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives \u2013 and carried out an attack on President Donald Trump at the Washington Hilton. And this is a point worth acknowledging: Allen did not just attempt an attack \u2013 he actually pulled it off. The ensuing shootout broke out right at the entrance to the ballroom, within close range of where the dinner was underway and where Trump was seated. One Secret Service officer was wounded in the exchange. The chaos that followed was captured on numerous bystander videos and quickly went viral. The footage clearly shows some USSS agents looking completely bewildered, unsure of how to respond in the moment. The evacuation of the president and vice president deviated from protocol \u2013 and Trump was even dropped in the process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n