In the aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt, I noted that the organization has never had a good track record of stopping political assassinations once they were in progress (as opposed to some crank emailing a threat) so there’s a wavery line between incompetence and enabling an assassination through a complicity of carelessness.

More evidence is emerging of a pattern of what might be an almost calculated carelessness.

First, the Secret Service brass covertly suppressed efforts to put more men on the job.