OPINION 'The Secret Service’s failure to handle the threat against Pelosi in a timely manner is just the latest in a series of disturbing revelations about the agency charged with protecting the life of the president.'
It’s a question that must be asked in the wake of multiple shocking scandals that have cast a shadow over the agency’s credibility. On Wednesday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington revealed that the Secret Service waited two days to report a threat targeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President-elect Joe Biden and then-Vice President Mike Pence in Jan. 2021.
The post on Parler — a far-right social media platform — suggested that Pelosi would be a target of whatever was being planned for the Capitol on Jan. 6. Yet the Secret Service sat on this information. CREW obtained the Secret Service's email message as part of an investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“We broke into the Capitol. … We got inside, we did our part,” said Dawn Bancroft, an insurrectionist who broke into the Capitol, in a video posted Jan. 6. “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her.” Last month, we learned that the Secret Service agents had deleted texts related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, raising questions about what exactly went on during the hours when thousands of insurrectionists were swarming the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overthrow American democracy.
“I’m not getting into the car,” Pence reportedly told the Secret Service agents who attempted to escort him away from the Capitol.
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