Krauthammer’s Take: The Secret Service Is ‘Absolutely Out of Control,’ and It’s No Surprise

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The Secret Service is “absolutely out of control,” says Charles Krauthammer. “The first instinct of the Secret Service when there is a breach, when they have a failure . . . is to diminish civil liberties of tourists walking outside the gates. The problem is not outside the gate, it is inside the gates.”

The Secret Service’s failures are only consequences of a larger problem, though, Krauthammer said on Special Report. There is a “culture in Washington where no one is accountable for anything. You say the words, ‘I am accountable, I am responsible,’ and nothing happens to you. Anybody who says in a hearing, ‘I take the full responsibility,’ ought to be required by law to resign within the hour. That’s what it means that ‘I take responsibility.’”

“Time after time — with the VA scandal, with the rollout of Obamacare, with what happened in Benghazi — people say, ‘I am accountable,’ and nothing happens to them,” Krauthammer said. “If you’re accountable, if you say the words, you’re gone.”