Of all the crises the U.S. faces, at home and abroad, one of the most searing is the failure to ask the right questions that get to the heart of any vital issue. Questions are distorted or deflected by disinformation, misinformation and willful disregard for truth and fact that tragically now are how politics are malpracticed today.

Until the right questions are asked, the answers will be neither relevant nor helpful. What does this mean in simple terms?

One major crisis is the Secret Service's apparent inability to adequately protect current and former senior officials, notably presidents and vice presidents.

The two assassination attempts against Trump in Pennsylvania and on a Palm Beach golf course came way too close to succeeding. An inch one way or the other in Butler, and Donald Trump would likely be dead. If a Secret Service agent had not been alert enough to see a gun barrel peering out from the foliage in Palm Beach, disaster too easily could have followed.

Here, then, is the key question that was never asked. The Secret Service has another, equally important mission besides protection to investigate financial crimes against the government from counterfeiting to fraud. Should the Secret........

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