Even by the nonexistent standards of America’s bloated and now-leaderless federal bureaucracy, it’s hard to believe that former Pepsi executive Kimberly Cheatle held onto her job for as long as she did. Cheatle is the director of the Secret Service, the agency that allowed a 20-year-old assassin to shoot the leading presidential candidate in the head just ten days ago. Or she was the director. It was just announced this morning that she is resigning from her position, finally.
It took a while, despite the fact that both parties, and Cheatle herself, readily admit that the best-case scenario here is that the Secret Service displayed stratospheric levels of incompetence — ineptitude so profound that it very nearly changed the course of world history. And yet Cheatle remained in office. In fact, Cheatle’s boss at D.H.S. said he has “100 percent” confidence in her. On top of…
