Keystone Secret Service
Earlier this month, on March 4th at about 10:30 PM, according to the Washington Post, a woman hopped out of her car on 15th Street, near the White House, and approached some Secret Service guards carrying a package wrapped in a shirt and she yelled that she was holding a bomb. Then she dropped it and ran back to her car and tried to escape, hitting an officer a few times until she was successful.
Pretty exciting, huh? But, that’s not the end of it. At about 11PM, two senior agents drove onto the scene from their night out down in Chinatown, a few blocks away;
[The senior agents] drove their government car through the crime scene. According to people familiar with the incident, they drove through police tape and then hit a temporary barricade, using the car to push aside some barrels. An agency official said Thursday that the car was not damaged.
The episode was caught on surveillance video. Investigators who reviewed the tape of the incident initially said they couldn’t be sure if the pair drove very close to or over the suspicious item wrapped in the shirt, one law enforcement official said. But after reviewing more tape later on Thursday afternoon, the official said, they concluded the agents’ government car drove directly next to the package.
Secret Service officers…wanted to arrest the agents — but a more senior supervisor at the complex told them to let the agents go, the officials said.
Of course, alcohol was involved. The woman was known to the Secret Service and it looks like she might end up in court answering for her assault on the officer with her car. But, it wasn’t until 3/4 of an hour later, after the two inebriated agents drove through the crime scene that it was determined that there was no bomb. One of the agents was Marc Connolly who is second in command of the president’s security detail.
I understand that when the agents are off duty, they have a right to blow off steam, but these fellows were partying in a government vehicle, you know one of the vehicles we bought for protection of the president and his family, not for joy riding around the middle of the District. And if they were off-duty, what were they doing at a crime scene?
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“Agents later determined that inside the package wrapped in the shirt was an unwrapped Baby Ruth candy bar. Agent Marc Connolly said it tasted quite good and really helped him get over the munchies.”
DOODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROTFLMAO! Thanks GDC!
Local news has it that the agents were at a retirement bash or some sort when they were called into work for the bomb threat.
SS agents are allowed to use their vehicles to and from home and work. The agent’s vehicles also don’t have GSA plates. I’m relatively certain that they can’t use them for personal business. So, was the party personal business or government business. If personal, they should have left the car in the ample lot behind the White House and taken a cab to the event. If business, they shouldn’t have been drinking. Either way, they’re screwed.
If this had happened 10 or 15 years ago, this wouldn’t have been an issue. Now, not so much.
Any local cop would have been in jail and fired the next day. Screw them and the Supervisor who allowed them to get away.
Ummmm….no, local cops would not automatically been fired.
http://wcbe.org/post/columbus-cop-facing-ovi-charges
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/03/05/fort-worth-officer-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drunken-driving/
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2015/03/7/officer-arrested.html
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/binghamton/news/2015/03/3/binghamton-police-officer-answers-to-misconduct-charge.html
Yep. Police do sometimes cut their “brothers in blue” slack.
Not all the time – but it happens.
I should have began that sentence with “It’s been my experience.” True that officers will sometimes give professional courtesy to other officers; however, when it comes to high profile incidents or in most cases I’ve seen, DUI, PC goes out the window. Two reasons: 1) You don’t want to be the one who made the decision and get hammered by the public and your agency if found out 2) A lot of officers don’t have the capability to turn off the video system in their vehicle or erase it. Only a supervisor can and whatever you stop is recorded and reviewed. Often it is kept for a period of time in case something pops up later. Where I worked as a police officer once you were arrested for DUI you instantly were suspended without pay and if found guilty you were terminated.
“One of the agents was Marc Connolly who is second in command of the president’s security detail.”
Not for much longer… Dude just tap danced all over his crank.
Well, in all fairness, who in his position *wouldn’t* need a drink or ten?
Yakity Sax makes it better
http://bennyhillifier.com/?id=gWnCfzvSVzo
Farking genius!
Video makes it even better.
Ex-PH2, That was GREAT!
I needed the laugh, too, Sparks.
Everything we’ve heard lately makes me believe the Secret Service’s morale is in the tank, particularly among those agents assigned to the White House detail.
I never thought I’d say I feel sorry for them, but now I do. They show every sign of being both leaderless and rudderless.
Yeah, well, considering their principal….
They are supposed to be professionals
You can just hear the music playing
It would appear, according to all accounts listed above, that “Turd” Bolling and Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency are already on the job.
We will know for sure when the sexual harassment claims begin.
I say fire 10% of them immediately
It just occurred to me that I don’t remember hearing about all this kind of Keystone Kops behavior in the Secret Service and White House Security in the past under, Bush, Clinton, etc. You know the media would have pounced on every incident had it happened on Bush’s watch, so what the hell has happened in the past six years?
If he’ll make a Marine hold his umbrella, how do you think he treats the Secret Service agents around him?
Uh, Poetrooper, who’s in the Oval Office now?
Rhetorical question, Ex-PH2…
(falls off chair laughing)
+1000
Hope you didn’t hurt yourself, my dear.
From your past comments I take it that you are a plant lover so you will appreciate this. I just pulled my head out of my surfing butt long enough to look past the monitor and out the sun room windows to notice that our neighbor has a tall, wide, wild rose bush that is blooming huge pink roses on the back, wooded side of her lot.
Spring is here apparently after a cold snowy, rainy winter. Nothing like yours of course. Hang in there for Spring’s on its way, even for you Dakotaluts and Illanooks.
From all I’ve heard in the past that is a horrible job under any President. Great for career advancement, but horrible while on the detail.
It’s ironic, is it not, that the “SECRET” Service is being publicly analyzed to death. I guess their secret is out: they screw up a lot.