Secret Service overstretched

Campaign Puts New Strain on Secret Service

"The protection work of the Secret Service has grown in magnitude and complexity since 9/11. . . . The number of protectees under your responsibility has doubled since 2002. At the same time, the global war on terror is driving up the intensity of your protective operations," Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) told Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan at a March hearing on his $1.4 billion 2008 budget proposal. "Your already stretched personnel and resources are going to be stretched even further."

Saddled with new duties, the agency is cutting back its traditional work on financial fraud and cybercrime.

So now agents are being pulled off their surveillance of the banks and the Internet.

Now we're even more open for something like what happened to Estonia.

Also, if they're going to have trouble finding the resources to scan the White House mail and other threats to the President, doesn't that leave things open for people to...er...

...I don't know, perhaps harm...if it's safe to say...

Oh, wait...if I say it, they won't catch me! They're too busy to FIND IT! WAH-HA-HA-HAAAAAA!

Stretched resources potentially leave the President vulnerable!

The act of running for President endangers the current President!

And you just TOLD everybody!!!