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    Former Secret Service agent Bongino: Holder’s Justice Dept. is a ‘travesty’

    9:15 PM 11/22/2013
    Katie McHugh
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    Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, author of the newly-released book “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away From It All,” left his post after a 12-year run to run for Congress as a Republican, turning his back on President Barack Obama and the “fog of scandals” he believes have enveloped the Obama administration.

    Bongino sat down with The Daily Caller and dished on the politicized state of the Department of Justice, the reforms he believes will stifle corruption in the burgeoning federal bureaucracies and the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance sweeps.

    Bongino: “It’s a travesty, what’s happened to the Department of Justice. It’s an actual travesty. It’s political malpractice at its worst. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Lady Justice has got a blindfold on. That has not been the case for this administration. Think about the things they’ve wasted their time on. Political statements about the voter intimidation, Fast and Furious, hiding documents from Congress — the most recent scandal, and I think the most egregious, is going after Louisiana for the school voucher program. … This Department of Justice is a Department of Injustice. It’s just sad what has happened — I’m stunned that more people have not come forward. Because I get, phone calls, emails, texts from people all the time, who — I cannot express to you the level of frustration amongst federal agents and administrative employees. People are really fed up with this administration and the way they politicize things. I think the DOJ is just the tip of the spear.”

    Do you have a remedy for this besides bringing in a new DOJ, reforms that could be put in place to prevent this sort of politicization?

    Bongino: “From a larger, umbrella view, the reason we have this is the walling off and these individual silos amongst this multitude of alphabet soup of federal agencies out there. What it does is give the Department of Justice unusual power. If we were to reform the system, put everyone under a blanket law enforcement umbrella, and then a blanket intelligence umbrella, and then had independent — completely independent, there’s no cross-pollination, there’s no transfer of personnel — and independent, third wing, so law enforcement intel, and then an inspector general that was completely separate and distinct from everyone else. They would actually be able to oversee elements like the DOJ and law enforcement and government by discretion. The way it’s set up now, structurally, it’s impossible. The attorney general is an appointee of the president and his loyalties are to the president first, which I think Holder’s are, and not to the people. And I think you’re going to have a very serious problem. And there is no way to prevent it if the media just goes along.”

    So you have tens of thousands of federal agents investigating small crimes and ignoring larger ones like the Boston bombing. Does this puts us at risk for not only corruption in departments, but actual attacks?

    Bongino: “Absolutely. This is a national security issue. I mean, think about it — we’re raiding Les Paul guitar centers for importing wood that violates a restriction that nobody even knows or cares about, while a known terrorist, a Tsarnaev brother, is in our terrorist information database, goes back and forth [to Russia], and nobody even notices? If this was a private company, there would be a mass firing. They would be selling off of branches, consolidation — none of this happens. And this is the sad part: We have just so accepted as the American citizenry government ineptitude. It’s ineptitude that — it doesn’t surprise anyone. There’s no cattle prod. … It’s like that shirt I see all the time: ‘The beatings will continue until morale improves.’ That’s really what we’ve got to, a point where — you accept such levels of ineptitude these umbrella questions get lost, because it’s just assumed that that’s the way it is. And the umbrella questions of ‘Why do we have all of these agencies?’ Has anybody even thought of that?”

    “This is bureaucratic investigative laziness at its worst. I’ve actually investigated these cases, so I’m speaking from first-hand experience. This whole position of lawmakers, bureaucrats, and some in the spy agency — not all — is that since we can’t reform government, we’re going to defualt to a collection mechanism on every American, because we can’t do anything to make things better at the margin. So we’re just with one big stroke of the pen collect [data] on every single American. How any good conservative can defend this program is beyond me. If you give the government — I promise you, having been there as long as I have, I promise you it will be abused. Don’t think for a second that it won’t. It’s just a matter of when. The ‘if’ question is done, finished. It will be abused, I promise. The incentives are all wrong.”

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    EXCLUSIVE: FORMER SECRET SERVICE AGENT CANCELLED APPEARANCE ON BASHIR'S SHOW OVER PALIN REMARKS




    by TONY LEE 22 Nov 2013 669POST A COMMENT

    On Thursday, a former U.S. Secret Service agent who is running for a House seat and has written a book about his life in the Service cancelled his prescheduled appearance on MSNBC'sBashir Live because of Martin Bashir's suggestion that someone should defecate and urinate in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's mouth.

    Dan Bongino, who was a Secret Service agent under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, told Breitbart News that his appearance to speak on Bashir's program about his book, Life Inside the Bubble, "was booked in advance of his unfortunate comments," and he could not in good faith appear on the program.

    "In light of these comments I felt it only appropriate to cancel my appearance on the show. Governor Palin took a principled chance on me during my U.S. Senate campaign when few would," Bongino told Breitbart News. "She put herself out there for me, risking her political capital, and chose to endorse me because she believed in me

    "In a political arena filled with bad actors it was refreshing to know that Governor Palin was willing to fight for the underdog. She deserves better than the treatment she received by Mr. Bashir and I cannot, in good faith, appear on the show, regardless of the number of books it may or may not sell."

    Bongino is the author of Life Inside the Bubble, which is getting bipartisan interest thanks to recent scandals and the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. As of this writing, it is No. 39 on Amazon.com's bestsellers list. Bongino, a candidate for Maryland's Sixth Congressional District who has said he would go to Washington and not let the city change him, turned down a chance to promote himself and his book on Bashir's show during a week in more people may be watching due to the controversy surrounding Bashir's comments. Bashir apologized on Monday for his remarks, saying they were "offensive" and wholly inappropriate," but MSNBC has not taken any action against him despite the network's past history of disciplining its on-air talent for "offensive remarks." Palin's political action committee SarahPAC sent a letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin and NBC News President Deborah Turness, which Breitbart News exclusively obtained, that asked the network what action it would take against Bashir, especially given that the network suspended Alec Baldwin for anti-gay comments he made off of the air.

    "You fired Don Imus for offensive language in describing the Rutgers University Women’s Basketball team, you suspended Alec Baldwin, and yet nothing has happened to Mr. Bashir," the letter reads. "Are we to assume then, that disciplinary procedures at your network take place based on the target of the remarks rather than the remarks themselves?"

    The letter concludes, "Americans deserve to know that your network doesn’t condone violent and hateful rhetoric directed at anyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or political persuasion."

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journal...-Palin-Remarks

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