http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz3RVtSFUjL

If you were wondering if the US has turned into a Soviet style massive bureaucracy, right here is your confirmation. This incompetent jerk is forced out of his high paying job for all sorts of screw ups and then is handed an even higher paying undisclosed job that he will screw up in another agency. The country is finished....


The Face of Stupid.

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What new job in the Homeland Security Department is the ousted No. 2 official at the Secret Service doing? Nobody's saying.

Alvin 'A.T.' Smith, who ran day-to-day operations at the Secret Service during its most embarrassing scandals, resigned under pressure as deputy director earlier this week.

In what appears to be a highly unorthodox employment shuffle, Smith – who earned as much as $183,000 a year – was permitted to take an unspecified job inside the highly regarded Homeland Security Investigations unit in U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Both agencies are part of the Homeland Security Department.

But no one will disclose Smith's new job title, his responsibilities or how much public salary he's earning. It's a mystery whether Smith is investigating cases, shuffling paperwork behind a desk or supervising agents.

Smith was among the last senior Secret Service official left unscathed after a shakeup that started with the forced resignation of then-Director Julia Pierson. Four other senior leaders, including the man in charge of protection operations, were ousted last month.

Amid the upheaval, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, and others have criticized Smith, saying he was at the center of bad decisions made in a sequence of Secret Service scandals.

But until Monday, when the Secret Service announced his departure in a three-paragraph statement, Smith's job seemed safe.

The Homeland Security Department won't provide details about his new job. Smith spent 29 years with the Secret Service, including a stint as the head of the agency's investigations division and is nearing retirement. Federal law enforcement officers are forced off the job at 57.

Smith did not respond to messages from The Associated Press emailed to him and left with the public affairs office of his new agency.

A senior executive with the government, Smith could have been fired for misconduct or poor performance.

Unlike lower level government employees, very few rules protect a high-level job, said Carol Bonosaro of the nonprofit Senior Executives Association, a professional group that advocates for top-level government workers.

Secret Service Acting Director Joseph Clancy could have transferred Smith within the agency or fired him outright, but Clancy wouldn't have authority to transfer him to another agency within the Homeland Security Department, Bonosaro said.

The transfer would have involved approval from top officials within the department, run by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

Johnson last year pledged that 'ethics in government, setting the example and remaining above reproach are essential elements of good leadership.'

Johnson has not commented on Smith's departure.

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Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2

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But no one will disclose Smith's new job title, his responsibilities or how much public salary he's earning. It's a mystery whether Smith is investigating cases, shuffling paperwork behind a desk or supervising agents.

Or placed there to just keep quiet....?.

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