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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPHOTO: Agent In Secret Service Scandal Was In Sarah Palin’s Security Detail
David Chaney has been identified as the Secret Service supervisor who retired under pressure this week in the wake of the prostitution scandal rocking the agency. Heres a photo he posted on his Facebook wall back in 2009 of him protecting former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean? he wrote in response to a friend, joking that he was a Palin stalker.
Another photo of him protecting Palin, posted later in 2009:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/photo-agent-in-secret-service-scandal-with-sarah
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)wealthy soon.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)No foul, no harm.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Skittles
(153,199 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)And I'll wager most if not all of them were hired during the Bush regime.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)He was a young guy and dating a coworker. He joined several of us for dinner one night. He was very circumspect and said nothing disloyal to the President the whole evening, but I could tell he stifled a grin a few times when disparaging comments were made, or folks tried to "catch" him out.
I liked him. Don't stereotype these guys is all I'm saying.
ellie_belly
(47 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)orwell
(7,776 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Looks like he's staring at her ass in the second
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)I totally get a right-wing vibe from this. You can bet that SS agents who were libs and dedicated to protecting our President wouldn't have engaged in this nonsense. Lib or Winger - what they did was wrong (I will bet a bit of money that they were politically to the right). I might be wrong, but in reading this story, I immediately thought that they were politically to the right and likely voted Republican.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Have you ever met a liberal cop? I haven't. I mean, it's kind of an oxymoron.
dmr
(28,349 posts)They're out there. There's good & bad in everything.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)profession a lot.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Here's one who used to work for our sheriff's department. He's now retired and writes a liberal column in the local paper: http://www.knoxnews.com/staff/david-hunter/
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Sorry.
The more relevant question is how much pressure they need to blow off steam.
Spazito
(50,484 posts)Secret Service agents would not be posting photos of themselves while making sexist comments on Facebook. I am guessing that his page was/is public seeing as TPM found the photo and the comments although I could be wrong about that.
cally
(21,596 posts)Sarah Palin was a VP candidate and it's his job to show respect and protect her.
MADem
(135,425 posts)This guy is both a tool and a fool, and it's obvious that his hiring predates Obama's administration.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)AnnieBW
(10,459 posts)Media whores or real whores.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Awful awful people. Just awful. Whores. Every awful person should be called a whore because prostitutes are despicable people.
2banon
(7,321 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)separating personal conduct with the job? Prostitution is legal in Columbia, so he didn't break any laws. I might not want him for a son in law, but that has nothing to do with his job.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)again. The entire government is a PR scheme.
Kencorburn
(74 posts)I wonder if any Colombian pura was involved? Is he grinding his teeth in that top pic?
Bozita
(26,955 posts)Days?
Weeks? ... More?
unionworks
(3,574 posts)Spooks are trained to recognize and avoid them. These guys knew better. At least, they embarrased the US. At worst, they showed our enemies that our highest level of security is easily compromised.Hugo Chavez is laughing his ass off.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Correction: Hugo Chavez is training prostitutes how to kill with hat-pins and stiletto heels.
unionworks
(3,574 posts)...carefully folded "mens magazines".
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)in the Secret Service. *These* are the people protecting the President?!