Those Secret Service Agents Almost Ran Over 'Bomb'

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http://www.newser.com/story/203980/those-secret-service-agents-almost-ran-over-bomb.html

The Secret Service agents involved in a crash at the White House last week didn't just add another embarrassing gaffe to the agency's loooong list. The stunt disrupted an active bomb investigation, the Washington Post reports. Sources and police documents note the allegedly intoxicated agents, identified by the Post as Mark Connolly and George Ogilvie, drove through police tape and "directly next to" a suspicious package a woman had left on the ground; she had claimed it was an "[expletive] bomb" before she hit an agent with her car as she drove away. (The package turned out to be a book wrapped in a shirt; the woman has been located.) New Secret Service chief Nebulous Clancy says he learned about the disturbed probe on Monday, five days after the March 4 incident, raising more concerns about the state of the troubled agency.

Though the Homeland Security Department will investigate the crash, two members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have asked Clancy to release more information on the "extremely serious" incident, which "raises important questions about what additional steps should be taken to reform the agency and whether the problems at the USSS run deeper than the recently replaced top-tier of management." Clancy has moved Connolly and Ogilvie to "non-supervisory, non-operational" positions—an odd move as agents under investigation are usually put on administrative leave. The Post points out this interesting tidbit: Ogilvie is a Secret Service spokesman who previously spoke on the agency's "zero-tolerance policy" for misconduct.

Thoughts?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

We have a absolutely corrupt federal government on all levels that cannot be trusted. It can't surprise anyone this has infected the secret service also.

 

[Jazzy]

In any other industry an act like this would obviously get the idiots fired and charged with DUI and maybe reckless endangerment or whatever else. Ogilvie spoke about zero tolerance, eh? Talk about hypocrisy.

 

[Webster]

In any other industry an act like this would obviously get the idiots fired and charged with DUI and maybe reckless endangerment or whatever else. Ogilvie spoke about zero tolerance, eh? Talk about hypocrisy.

Jazzy, this is the federal government we're talking about here; odds are, they'll be shuffled off to some other location, retire after 20 more years and get a nice, fat, taxpayer-supplied pension.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

We have a absolutely corrupt federal government on all levels that cannot be trusted. It can't surprise anyone this has infected the secret service also.

I agree.