Former Secret Service Directer Looked to Disney World
Before she left, former director for the Secret Service Julia Pierson told the agency it should model itself after Walt Disney World. The Washington Post reports, “In the spring, Pierson was irate at what she considered the excessive security measures her team had planned for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which Obama hosted this summer, demanding that it dismantle extra layers of fencing and reopen closed streets, according to two agency supervisors. Supervisors who had mapped out the security plan said they were taken aback when Pierson, who worked during high school at Walt Disney World as a costumed character and park attendant, said: ‘We need to be more like Disney World. We need to be more friendly, inviting.’” While the leader may be delusional, his security detail cannot be lost in a magic kingdom. More…
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