REPORT: Secret Service agents partied like rock stars on Obamas’ Vineyard Vacation. “Local residents say wild parties, fights and late-night carousing involving Secret Service members have become commonplace in recent years at the Vineyard, a favorite getaway for the First Family and longtime destination for upper-crust members of the Northeastern political, media and business establishment.” Plus lost badges, and security breaches.
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LITIGATION: Judicial Watch Sues Air Force and Secret Service for Records Detailing Michelle Obama’s Family Ski Vacation to Aspen, Colorado. “Pursuant to its original February 21, 2012, FOIA request with the U.S. Air Force, Judicial Watch seeks access to any and all records concerning the mission taskings, transportation costs and passenger manifests for Mrs. Obama’s February 2012 trip to Aspen, Colorado.”
MORE SECRET SERVICE PROBLEMS: Driver in road rage ID’d as Secret Service agent.
The license plate on a black Dodge Charger recorded speeding erratically on Interstate 77 in Charlotte and using blue lights to pull over a vehicle was assigned to a Secret Service agent, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service agency.
Special Agent in Charge, Russ Nelson, of the Secret Service office in Charlotte said, “The employee was working on duty in an official capacity in a US Secret Service vehicle at the time of the incident.”
Nelson said they’re investigating the incident and have placed the agent on paid leave until the issue is resolved.
Really, I’m beginning to have doubts about their professionalism. But three cheers for cellphone video. But why don’t we know the agent’s name?
SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR: Colombia Scandal Was An Isolated Incident. They always are.
But actually, as InstaPundit readers know, the Secret Service has had problems with poor management and toxic internal politics for quite a while.
SECRET SERVICE SCANDAL UPDATE: Did agency cut corners in rush to handle embarrassing incident?
SECRET SERVICE UPDATE: Cartagena prostitution scandal is no laughing matter to Secret Service alumni. Well, they should be embarrassed, especially as this wasn’t just one isolated incident. As I’ve noted here before, the Secret Service has had problems for many years.
THE WHITE HOUSE’S WAR ON WOMEN (CONT’D): Colombian Hooker Says Secret Service Agents ‘Showed No Respect.’
This culture of contempt for women comes from the top.
Pictured on the left, above, is Jon Favreau, who still works for the White House at a salary of $172,200 a year. According to the linked article, Obama calls him his “mind reader.”
SECRET SERVICE SCANDAL UPDATE: “The chairman and the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee have dared the Secret Service to answer 15 questions.”
Related: Secret Service Employees Paid 10 of the 12 Women Involved In Colombia Sex Scandal. And I’ll bet they really wish they’d paid the other two. . . .
UPDATE: Secret Service Problems Much Bigger Than Prostitutes. Yes, I’ve been blogging about those other problems for ten years. But somehow they haven’t gotten as much attention as the hookers.
NO SECRET SERVICE CAREERS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS INTERVIEW: ‘Whores’ Glory’: An Interview With Michael Glawogger. Tracy Quan talks with the maker of a “surprisingly accurate” documentary about prostitution around the world.
MAN BITES DOG: Joe Biden makes dumb, insulting joke about Secret Service.
SECRET SERVICE SCANDAL: New Allegations Surface.
MORE SCANDALS: New Secret Service scandal centers on strippers, prostitutes in El Salvador. “Although our source says he told the agents it was a ‘really bad idea’ to take the strippers back to their hotel rooms, several agents bragged that they ‘did this all the time’ and ‘not to worry about it.'”
WHERE WAS THE SECRET SERVICE? IT COULD HAVE BEEN DEATH YOGURT: “Getting yogurt on the president, you’ve got a story to tell.”
Oh, right, probably scanning for hookers. . . .
SECRET SERVICE UPDATE: GOP senator wants details of White House review of staff in Colombia.
THE WHITE HOUSE’S WAR ON WOMEN: What happened to the women Secret Service agents?
THE HILL: Secret Service Scandal Dominates Washington Conversation.
Here’s a question everyone should be pondering: If the federal government can’t keep the President’s bodyguards from drinking and whoring on duty, how likely is it to be able to run anything competently?
DAVID AXELROD: Yeah, I’d probably use the GSA, Solyndra, and Secret Service scandals against a Republican president. Luckily for him, the press won’t use those against his boss.
ELIZABETH RIDGEVIEW: My Creepy Hookup With A Secret Service Agent.
SO HOW’S THAT WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Secret Service agents are supposed to handle, not cause, trouble. A fish rots from the head.
SARAH PALIN TO OGLING SECRET SERVICE AGENT: “”Well check this out, bodyguard — you’re fired. And I hope his wife sends him to the doghouse. As long as he’s not eating the dog, along with his former boss.”
SECRET SERVICE UNPROFESSIONALISM:
One of the Secret Service supervisors ousted from the agency this week for their involvement in the Colombia prostitution scandal made light of his official protective work on his Facebook page, joking about a picture of himself standing watch behind Sarah Palin.
David Randall Chaney, 48, posted several shots of himself on duty in a dark suit and sunglasses, including one that shows him behind the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee during that campaign.
“I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?” Chaney wrote in the comments section after friends had marveled at the photo. He is married and has an adult son.
Really, it’s hard to trust the professionalism of government employees these days.
BRIDGET JOHNSON: Heads Begin to Roll in Secret Service Sex Scandal.