Miami police: Secret Service agent found passed out drunk on sidewalk
Last edited Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: CBS News
A U.S. Secret Service agent was found passed out on the Miami sidewalk early Friday morning after President Barack Obama had left South Florida.
The arrest report states that Miami police officers were in the area for an unrelated call when they noticed Aaron Francis Engler sleeping on the ground, according to CBS Miami. When officer checked in on him, he grew combative and started to fight.
The officers then took Engler to the ground and handcuffed him. They realized his identity after they went through his pockets and saw his Secret Service identification.
Law enforcement sources told CBS Miami that Engler told police he was an agent out Washington and was part of the president's advance team, securing the area ahead of his arrival on Thursday. As soon the President Obama left, Engler said he went out drinking and got really drunk.
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Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57531573/miami-police-secret-service-agent-found-passed-out-drunk-on-sidewalk/
Gosh. I thought the Secret Service wanted more Mormon like agents, like CIA and FBI.
Judi Lynn
(160,588 posts)glinda
(14,807 posts)Personal perhaps? All sooooo secret ya know so no one ever gets the boot. My money is on a Conservative.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Agent Bolden was personally selected by JFK to serve as the first African American SS agent to serve on the White House presidential protection detail. He discovered the agency was filled with racist conservatives who HATED President Kennedy and were lax in their protection. After being subjected to treatment and ridicule that would make lesser men violent, he quit. After Dallas, he approached the Warren Commission with his accusations. For his trouble, he was railroaded and put into federal custody, including the penitentiary and psych wards. In reality and for history, Mr. Bolden is a hero.
Some background for those still interested in how we got to where we are:
Former Agent: Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago Foiled Before Assassination
Ex-Secret Service agent reveals Chicago JFK plot
The great author and journalist Edwin Black broke the story, "The Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago," way back when. Scribd has a copy, posted by Mr. Black (an outstanding author, New York Times journalist, and a good friend of someone I met once):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49710299/The-Chicago-Plot-to-Kill-JFK
On the above article, from Edwin Black:
This file has been transcribed from a poor set of photo-copies. The images in those photocopies are, at best, very poor and I chose not to include them except to reference them and provide any subtext attached.The text in the original article was formatted in one to three columns per page and, to make referencing the original a bit easier, Ive referenced those columns as well. I hope Ive maintained the integrity of the original article to everyones satisfaction.
But first
Five years ago on a commission from Atlantic Monthly, I began investigating a Chicago conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy just 20 days before Dallas. When I asked the wrong questions and came too close to sensitive information, I was followed and investigated by a Defense Intelligence Agency (D. I. A.) operative. By examining my own file, I identified him and embarrassed the DIA into halting the harassment. There's a record of their "project" in the credit bureau where it began, Credit Information Corporation. (named Cook County credit bureau at the time). The DIA's inquiry listed my employer as Atlantic Monthly although, that assignment was my only work for the magazine.
Unfortunately, the harassment didn't end until after my apartment was broken into. No valuables were taken. But all my files were obviously and clumsily searched.
But that was five years ago, before Watergate, a different era. Today, when reporters edge close to dirty government secrets, it is the agencies who become nervous. And they think thrice before attempting the retaliation and tactics once common to the game.
My investigation, revived within the past eight months, took me to New York, Long Island,Houston and Washington as well as through courts, warehouses, police stations and federal offices in Chicago. Hundreds of hours scrutinizing federal, state and local documents,dozens of interviews, hundreds of leads. And always with the Secret Service and FBI working against me, doing what they could to make the investigation tedious, time-consuming, and expensive. Perhaps they hoped the investigation would just disappear after all the obstructions.
I hope they now know they must come up with the answers. It is simply unacceptable to wait until the 21st century for the release of seventy or so top secret Warren Commission documents.
(image: Edwin Blacks signature)
glinda
(14,807 posts)First link doesn't work.
DavidL
(384 posts)I hope some of these guys get fired, and never hired in public employment again.
Flipping burgers at McDonald's, about what they are worth.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Strange. It looked OK here. Then, it wasn't.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)chloes1
(88 posts)Faux news will be blaming Obama for this, wait and see!
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)newblewtoo
(667 posts)Who is in charge of these guys and why is that peson still employed as well. This is starting to smell like a culture thing which usually comes from the top down. They better get a handle on this before it gets someone killed. Like a drunk driver, it is never their first time and I don't care who you are, you are not a the top of your game with a hangover or bit of a buzz.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)I would like to read the continued part.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Remember when the SS basically turned their hotel in Cartagena, Colombia into a makeshift brothel?
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)causes dehydration and thus reduced tolerance to alcohol with the resulting bad choices.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)These asshats should go for a swim, a sail or a paddle in a kayak if the heat's getting to them. Instead, they get drunk
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)that'd be like not drinking when it's cold or pleasant out.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)you do really stupid stuff, like this, and the incident in Latin Am.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)I mean I read, SS is getting overwhelmed by the sheer amount. Maybe thats why we are seeing them blow off steam. I could be wrong, but I don't remember this ever occurring before.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)Their regular duties are already extremely rigorous and they are generally the cream of the crop among the executive branch. It is a prestigious and sensitive post and the pinnacle of some careers.
This guy is just a shitbag.
PB
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)I've had the pleasure of working with them several times when different Pres. have come to my city for visits, They are highly professional individuals and they take their duties very seriously, it's said that the Secret Service has no sense of humor, take it from me, they really don't.
I suspect this individual, depending how long he's been an agent, will either be facing suspension or termination.
Paladin
(28,267 posts)Too many death threats, too few agents.....
Evasporque
(2,133 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)We have no idea what this drunk SS guy is going through in his personal life.
Why judge him?