Why are we paying the Secret Service again?

So the President had a grenade lobbed at him, within 100 feet apparently. It's a good thing that everyone's safe. But does this sentence scare you a little bit?

A Secret Service spokesman said the agency, which is charged with protecting US presidents, was only informed of the incident by Georgian officials after Bush had left the country.

It's not like the Secret Service has a whole lot else to do when they're on the road with the President. You're telling me the world's most important bodyguard agency had to learn about this from local cops in Tbilisi? Not to disparage the Republic of Georgia, but it's a relatively new democracy with a somewhat unstable past. Are you telling me that their Barney Fifes can outwit OUR Secret Service?

NBC News, citing the Secret Service, said a Georgian officer 'ran off' with the device after it was thrown and that it was 'rendered safe and did not go off on its own.'

Ran off? Can ANY part of this government be competent?