Secret Service Agent’s Comment May Explain Lapse in Protection
While the story behind the firing of Kenneth Tate does give you pause and make you wonder why so many others did not lose theirs, it also may just explain why there has been quite a few lapse in protection of this nation’s first Black President. The article titled “ One Day in an Elevator With Obama, Then Out of a Job ” by Michael S. Schmidt for the NY Times reports “Kenneth Tate toiled for years as a construction worker and corrections officer, and he has no doubt that his last job — working as a $42,000-a-year private security guard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — was the best he ever had. The high point was an afternoon seven weeks ago when he was assigned to accompany President Obama, who was visiting the agency’s headquarters here for a briefing on the Ebola epidemic. It was not only that Mr. Tate’s bosses had entrusted him with staying close to such an important dignitary. It was that, as an African-American born in Chicago, he was going to meet th...