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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:10 PM Mar 2015

Report: Drunk Secret Service agents crash into WH barrier/CNN

Apparently, according to the story, the Secret Service is doing its best to keep this Secret.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/11/politics/drunk-secret-service-agents-white-house/

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating another incident of misconduct by senior Secret Service agents, White House officials said Wednesday night.

Two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of President Barack Obama's protective detail, crashed a car into a White House barricade following a late-night party for retiring spokesman Ed Donovan and it's suspected they had been drinking, sources confirmed to CNN.

The officers were allowed to go home after a supervisor on duty overruled on-duty law enforcement who wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests, a U.S. law enforcement official confirmed to CNN.

"The officers for the Secret Service who monitor the safety of the white house complex and ultimately the president and his family felt that these two individuals may have been intoxicated," Washington Post reporter Carol D. Leonnig, who broke the story, said in an interview broadcast on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.

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Report: Drunk Secret Service agents crash into WH barrier/CNN (Original Post) Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2015 OP

The law only applies to us regular people Lurks Often Mar 2015 #1

Yep. cwydro Mar 2015 #3

I Have To Think These Agents Are Toast.... global1 Mar 2015 #9

They should have been arrested and treated like the rest of us would have been Lurks Often Mar 2015 #12

Jesus H Christ jberryhill Mar 2015 #2

And they were in their government cars! cwydro Mar 2015 #4

Unreal jberryhill Mar 2015 #10

So that was the noise folks heard malaise Mar 2015 #5

So sick and frightened of these stories elfin Mar 2015 #6

Their Breathalyzer registered a 1600. nt TeamPooka Mar 2015 #7

Lawless nation of privilege, Rex Mar 2015 #8

One of these people is the number two man on POTUS detail. onecaliberal Mar 2015 #11

Not funny... ecstatic Mar 2015 #13

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)

1. The law only applies to us regular people

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:13 PM

Mar 2015

99.99% of the people here would have been arrested, breathalyzed or had our blood taken, booked, lost our license for at least 6 months and would have to face a judge.

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

3. Yep.

Reply to Lurks Often (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:20 PM

Mar 2015

You hit the nail on the head.

And obviously this particular group is way out of control.

Wonder how many belong to SAE???

global1

(25,253 posts)

9. I Have To Think These Agents Are Toast....

Reply to Lurks Often (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:59 PM

Mar 2015

They might have been excused from the local D.C. police - but you got to bet that they are going to be torn a new one from their superiors. I don't think they'll have a job in a few days. It doesn't help them that this story broke on CNN. They might have tried to hush it up - but everybody knows now and that's not good for them.

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)

12. They should have been arrested and treated like the rest of us would have been

Reply to global1 (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:51 AM

Mar 2015

As for being fired, maybe, maybe not, it'll depend on what kind of union or civil service protection they have.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

2. Jesus H Christ

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:19 PM

Mar 2015

How hard is it not to drink and drive?

How fucking hard is that?

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

4. And they were in their government cars!

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:21 PM

Mar 2015

This is all kinds of effed up.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

10. Unreal

Reply to cwydro (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 10:01 PM

Mar 2015

Just unreal.

malaise

(269,064 posts)

5. So that was the noise folks heard

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:25 PM

Mar 2015

Rec

elfin

(6,262 posts)

6. So sick and frightened of these stories

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:29 PM

Mar 2015

The reported incidents have escalated during the term of Obama that they are no longer coincidental nor reflective of changes due to SS being moved from Treasury to another department.

I smell racism.

I don't care if the job is boring. I only care if the Pres. and family (no matter what party) are protected at all times and at all places.