Secret Service Director Sullivan Gives G-Men Slap on Wrist

THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS:

Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Three Secret Service agents were disciplined. But not enough. Again, it's another example of the government protecting their own. The agencies director, Mark Sullivan issued a slap on the wrist as far as I'm concerned. Was it punishment to fit the crime? No way, director Sullivan.

Yes, the three agents were ousted but two of them were allowed to leave the agency in a way that will allow them to go out and be rehired by other agencies. That shouldn't be. My view, all "eleven agents" should have been fired, IMMEDIATELY.

One supervising agent was allowed to retire. I say, it shouldn't have happen. This guy can now received a large, lucrative pension that we taxpayers are on the hook for. We'll be paying him for the rest of his life. And don't forget, we'll have to pay for his health care and other benefits that the Feds lavish on their employees. Plus, he can now go out and get another job in law-enforcement and continue his bad behavior. On the other hand, if the agent was "fired", he could have lost all of his retirement goodies and benefits and it would be a matter of record when a prospective employer and/or agency checked his background. A slap on the wrist for this agent by the Secret Service ? You bet!

A second agent was allowed to resign. This man can also go out and get a job with another agency and have no mention of his misdeeds anywhere in his record. When asked why he left his last job all he has to say is "I resigned." What a joke.

The third agent was fired for cause. Hooray? Finally, a firing. There are a lot of people in Congress and across the country that believe all eleven agents should be fired, which includes one presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. And, he's right. The firings should have been undertaken as soon as the men were recalled back to the states. These federal agents had violated a number of rules and regulations that was a firing offense. Fast, swift justice should have been meted out then and there. Instead the Congress people who pander to special interests decided to have a dog and pony "see me on television" hearing.

We taxpayers shouldn't have to be paying large pensions to these corrupt, drunken agents. They should have been fired and all benefits of the job taken away.

Again, Obama, the administration and Congress are playing games with us taxpayers leaving us to pay the tab while they cover for the federal employees. Shame on them. Kudos to Romney for saying he would have fired the agents. Too bad he isn't president now. Justice would have been served.

As for the ten military personnel that were involved in this sorid mess. Punishment should be reduction in rank, a bad conduct discharge and the loss of all of future military benefits.

I said it before and I'll say it again, when other government agents or military personnel see that severe and swift punishment is handed out for wrongdoing they will think twice before committing such acts. No one wants to lose their jobs, positions and pensions and I suggest that if the morons know that is the price they had to pay, they wouldn't participate in wrongdoing. And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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