By Dan Bongino
As a former Secret Service agent familiar with the behind-the-scenes workings of the White House daily grind, I was sadly unsurprised by former White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor’s answer to Fox News’ Brett Baier’s pointed questions about Benghazi.
Vietor’s answer, “Dude, this was like two years ago,” although surprising to some, is completely consistent with my experience with this Grapefruit-League White House.
Although President Obama has Cabinet and leadership positions filled with people who have experience with the inner machinery of government, he defaults to rookies like Vietor, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod when the going gets tough. That these inexperienced, politics-first and leadership-last individuals are influencing the tough decisions is the core reason behind why the country currently has a chief executive in name only.
Real leadership is a two-way street that requires mutual respect for those in charge by those being led, and the respect of the rank and file by the leaders leading them.
This Grapefruit League White House, in placing political point-scoring above leadership, has perfected the blame-game to a near art form and has torn up the pavement on this two-way street.
Whether it be the blaming of rank-and-file employees of the IRS’s Cincinnati Office in the targeting scandal, the Secret Service for the closing down of the White House tours or the intelligence community for the deceptive narrative the administration propagated after the Benghazi terror attacks, the disgust is growing and the hot potato is being thrown back into the president’s lap.
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The intelligence community has responded that they are not responsible for the YouTube video meme, employees of the Cincinnati Office have fought back against allegations of misconduct and, based on the many phone calls I receive from frustrated government employees, there is more to come.
The tragic irony of this sad episode, culminating with the childish responses of Tommy Vietor to Brett Baier’s questions, is that if the men and women I worked with in the Secret Service had briefed the press using language such as “dude,” they would likely be suspended or worse.
It’s time for those in denial in the media to do their jobs and – for the sake of the country – to open the floodgates of truth on this administration and allow America to move on, before it’s too late.
America deserves a leader, not a director for another sequel to a “Wayne’s World” movie.
Dan Bongino, author of “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from It All,” Â began his career in law enforcement with the NYPD in 1995. He joined the ranks of the Secret Service in 1999 as a special agent where he was assigned to investigate financial crimes. In 2006, Bongino entered into duty with the elite Presidential Protective Division in the administration of President George W. Bush. He remained on protective duty during the change in administration to President Barack Obama. He resigned from the Secret Service in 2011 to run for a Senate seat in Maryland.
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