Secret Service agents investigated for late-night car accident at White House

[former9thward]

Source: Washington Post

The administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of President Obama’s protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party last week, an agency official said Wednesday.

Officers on duty who witnessed the March 4 incident wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests, according to a current and a former government official familiar with the incident. But the officers were ordered by a supervisor on duty that night to let the agents go home, said these people, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal matter.

Agency spokesman Brian Leary confirmed the investigation after an inquiry from The Washington Post, saying the Secret Service was “aware of the allegations of misconduct involving two of our employees.” He declined to specify which allegations are the focus of the inquiry, which he said will be pursued by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.

[Under pressure from Congress, Secret Service deputy director resigns]

Leary said officials have briefed Joseph P. Clancy, who was named by Obama last month to head the agency following a string of embarrassing security lapses.

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[MADem]

1. What is wrong with these guys?

Did Clancy hire Johnny McEldoo as his deputy?

[Ed Suspicious]

2. More buffoonery from the SS. Unreal.

[Rose Siding]

3. Misconduct involving 2? What about the supervisor?

Waving it away was at least as bad.

[LiberalArkie]

4. And that is why if you are call, you do not drink.

I was on call 24/7/365 from the age of 22 until I was 63 when I found out about "on call" pay. I did not know you got a pay increase while on call. My new supervisor said I did not qualify for it. I told him I am off call and started turning off my cell phone when I left work. I immediately ask some co workers what was good to drink and get plastered as I had never drank anything before. I got bad hungover.

Those guys should have known to stay where they were.

[SoapBox]

5. Good grief...this "frat house" is out of control.

Drinking...driving...prostitutes...

[AC_Mem]

6. Good Grief

This stuff has got to stop! Driving a government car while under the influence should be grounds for immediate termination. What are they thinking! They are supposed to be protecting OUR PRESIDENT!!!!!

[snappyturtle]

7. If I had done that I would be facing a DUI. However, I'm not in

the priviledged class.

[kairos12]

8. These guys must have been hired straight from the set of Reno 911.

[Raine1967]

9. Didn't the Secret Service get new leadership? I am asking because of this part:

Officers on duty who witnessed the March 4 incident wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests, according to a current and a former government official familiar with the incident. But the officers were ordered by a supervisor on duty that night to let the agents go home, said these people, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal matter.

That, IMO, is seriously effed up.

[dhill926]

10. so I'm sure somebody drove them home...

right? What a freakin' mess...

[bvar22]

11. Some pigs are more equal than others.

Rules are for the [font size=1]little people.[/font]

[marlakay]

12. That's why my retired husband quit his taxi job

Guy he worked for would only pay him hours he drove but he would be on call all day, couldn't have a beer or relax.

If these guys were on call to protect Obama they had no business drinking. I can't believe they could be that lax with president of US no matter who it is.