Secret Service Director Joe Clancy seems to have some awareness of the optics of the idea of using armed uniformed police officers to move kids with cancer out of a park where they're holding a candlelight vigil to raise money to stay alive.
Rather than the bloodless e-mail "regrets the miscommunication" response available to reporters last night, Clancy called one of the directors of the vigil's sponsoring organization and apologized for the treatment. He offered to come to a meeting and apologize in person and to give tours of the training facility to the kids the organization helps if they would like them. Another spokesperson confirmed the service would review its closing and notification procedures.
Someone somewhere deep within the bowels of the White House bureaucracy still deserves a stern talking-to, but at least we have learned that the Secret Service is led by an actual human being.
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