The Secret Service scandal(s)?

Resigning immediately was the right thing to do. Now they can regroup and go forward.

I just read Ms. Pearson's bio. She was on THREE presidential details (Bush, Clinton, Bush), and her subsequent assignments in her 30 years with the agency seemed appropriate for appointment/ascension to director. It was probably uncommon to be a female agent when she started in 1984. I would be interested to hear her unvarnished view of things. (I'm not defending her, but I'm curious.)

I understand why Mrs. Obama would be hopping mad. She, her husband, and her daughters are surrounded by agents, which must feel like such an intrusion. You would hope the pay-off would be a sense of trust and well-being.



Maybe, but my first concern would not be that.

Ron Butterfield would have never let things like this happen

I had read that the country’s deaf community and the African National Congress had no idea who he was and in another article that they weren't even sure he was vetted. But just now I read another article that said he knows sign language but had trouble interpreting English and he's schizophrenic and was hearing voices and seeing angels flying into the stadium during the event.

@mytnice: That's the problem; he wasn't skill-vetted by the organizers. In their defense, there was probably nobody who knew sign who COULD vet him. (Just like here. But here, we have interpreter licensure and the organizer often uses an interpreter agency, so assumes skill. I'm not sure how it works in SA.) And yes, the SA Deaf community - in fact, Deaf communities around the world - were mystified by the whole thing. I don't believe his story; there are YouTube videos of him signing just as abysmally at other events. But he's got moxie.

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