On January 27, 1967, a freak accident during a routine test killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. At the conclusion of the investigation, fellow astronaut Frank Borman testified to Congress that his friends were killed by a “failure of imagination.” As he said, nobody — including himself — imagined that a test of the capsule, performed on the ground, could be so catastrophic.
We heard the “failure of imagination” phrase again last week, when acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe testified about the assassination attempt on former President Donld Trump. He said that the Secret Service’s performance on July 13th amounted to
A failure on multiple levels, including a failure of imagination and a failure to challenge our assumptions.
I wonder if Acting Director Rowe realized that “failure of imagination” is the most damning admission possible for his agency. The mission of the Secret Service is to anticipate and mitigate threats to their protectees. If an agent can’t imagine that an assailant could attack with a rifle from 120 yards away, said agent lacks the imagination to be in any branch of law enforcement — especially the Secret Service. Yet Rowe admitted under oath, that the imagination problem was at all levels of his agency.
The calamity of errors on July 13th is so unimaginable, it has invited speculation of deep state conspiracies from the “Epstein didn’t hang himself” crowd. Given our government’s behavior of the past 10 years, who can blame them?
The FBI and CIA attempted to remove a duly elected President with a hoax they called an “insurance policy.” That is a fact, not a theory. The DoJ attempted to imprison Donald Trump for acts protected by the Constitution. That is a fact, not a theory. Democrat operatives in various states attempted to remove Trump from the Presidential ballot, based on opinions about his motives on January 6. That too is a fact. Congressman Bennie Thompson (D, MS) is trying to legislatively remove Donald Trump’s Secret Service protection. That he is doing so is a fact. Given all the above, it’s not much of a leap to question whether the same people that solicited some unstable patsies to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer might have solicited an unstable patsy to take a shot at Donald Trump.
However, despite our government’s recent history of conspiracies and dirty tricks (which have all failed), I think Hanlon’s Razor should be our guide.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Given that the federal government’s only demonstrated competency is being a pain in our backsides, I’m inclined to suspect that the Secret Service is not an exception to the rule.
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