Once again the Secret Service has displayed a stunning incompetence ("Secret Service in disarray March 13).
A new director, congressional and media inquiries, the scratching of heads and finger-pointing for more than 60 years has resulted in little real change. The two agents who allegedly crashed into a White House barricade after a night of drinking were just more business as usual at the agency.
While the "frat boy culture" identified by The Sun exists, the problem is far more entrenched than that phrase suggests. The drunken idiocy that night apparently wasn't even reported to the agency's new director until four days after it happened. Nor is that obvious lack of communication the only problem.
What is badly needed is a small panel of top criminologists able to come together quickly and conduct in-depth interviews with a representative sampling of current and former agents. Meanwhile the White House and leaders in Congress should be prepared to transfer or terminate a significant number of the current Secret Service supervisors or eliminate the agency altogether.
R. C. Monk, Towson