Posted on 05/14/2015 3:52:16 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
wo senior Secret Service supervisors were probably drunk when they drove through emergency barriers onto the White House grounds on the night of March 4, shoving a protective barrel aside and passing inches from a package that officers feared might contain a bomb..
That's the conclusion of a scathing 55-page report issued Thursday by John Roth, the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.
The misconduct by two veteran agents is the latest embarrassing episode for the troubled presidential protective service, and it led to a further shakeup of top ranks.
One of the supervisors involved, Marc Connolly, who was responsible for White House security, has indicated he will retire, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the matter in public. Disciplinary action is reportedly being considered against the other supervisor, George Ogilvie, who is an assistant to the head of the Washington field office.
Roth's report says Connolly and Ogilvie spent five hours at a retirement party in an Irish bar six blocks from the White House. Just before 11 p.m., they drove through a police roadblock and onto White House grounds at the E Street entrance, unaware that a woman had fled moments earlier after throwing a package that she said was a bomb.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mga/OIG_mga-050615.pdf
The driver was quoted as saying “I’m not as thunk as you drink I am!”
Like I care.....
A lot of partying go on with the current crop of Secret Service Agents.
Mammoth disillusionment.
RAAAAAMING SPEEEED!
A couple of reports said they ran over the suspicious package. Probably saved the bomb squad a lot of trouble. :-)
“Probably”drunk?
They weren’t tested initially???
I don’t want to excuse the SS behavior, but hasn’t everyone had a boss they neither respected nor liked, but still had to come to work every day.
Guarding someone you can’t stand will lead to that.
Obama drove them to drink.
In 2009, one of them told 0bama to his face that he would not take a bullet for him because of the racism of his entire family. The guy was reassigned or quit. Don’t remember which. And no, I can’t find the source.
I think what’s gone on is the replacement of men with blacks and of those who think and may be on record as believing 0bama doesn’t deserve their protection. Also, 0bama has his own private security-likely NOI.
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