In her defense, Mickey Mouse would’ve done a better job at stopping someone from running into the White House than the agents did…
Via Hot Air:
Whole lotta lefty hacks out there today grumbling that the axe fell quickly for Julia Pierson only because she’s a woman. Supposedly, there’s a “glass cliff” phenomenon at work in which women executives are brought in to clean up a man’s mess and then, if they haven’t done it in some impossibly limited timeframe, they’re unfairly purged. Three problems with that. One: Per Ian Tuttle, Pierson wasn’t the first choice for the job last year. A man, former agent David O’Connor, was. Setting up Pierson for sexist reasons to take the fall for a hopeless salvage operation must have been the White House’s Plan B, I guess.
Two: Pierson wasn’t some outsider airlifted into the Secret Service and expected to somehow learn the ropes and turn the agency around in 18 months. She’s been a VIP there for years. She was chief of staff to the previous director, who oversaw the prostitution scandal in Colombia and the 2011 fiasco in which the agency covered up the fact that shots were fired at the White House. She was head of the agency when Omar Gonzalez made his mad dash into the East Room through multiple layers of security last month.