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Top Secret Service official urged release of unflattering information about congressman
The Washington Compost ^ | 09/30/2015 | Carol D. Leonnig and Jerry Markon

Posted on 09/30/2015 5:34:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

An assistant director of the Secret Service urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of the service should be made public, according to a government watchdog report released Wednesday.

“Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out,” Assistant Director Edward Lowery wrote in an e-mail to a fellow director on March 31, commenting on an internal file that was being widely circulated inside the service. “Just to be fair.”

Two days later, a news Web site reported that Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, had applied to be a Secret Service agent in 2003 and been rejected.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; 2003; 201503; 20150331; 201504; 20150402; breachoffaith; chaffetz; confidential; edwardlowery; leaks; lowery; secretservice; securitylapses; tit4tat

1 posted on 09/30/2015 5:34:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m sure that Obama knew nothing about this.


2 posted on 09/30/2015 5:37:01 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So the SS has become corrupt and politicized like all of 0’s other agencies.


3 posted on 09/30/2015 5:38:13 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Farmer Dean

A fish rots from the head, as we always say here.


4 posted on 09/30/2015 5:38:17 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Farmer Dean
Hard ball.

Still, pale in comparison to what they do in Venezuela.

5 posted on 09/30/2015 5:38:48 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Irresponsibly getting a stadium of 20,000 to BOO our closest ally in the Pacific, JAPAN, just SUCKS)
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To: Farmer Dean

He’s as outraged as we are.


6 posted on 09/30/2015 5:39:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I can’t imagine it would be terribly embarrassing. After all it was discovered when he applied for a job with the secret service.

If you’ve got some deep dark secret, the last thing you’re going to do is apply for a job with the SS and welcome a background check.

It will turn out that he defaulted on a loan or was treated for depression as a teenager or some crap like that.


7 posted on 09/30/2015 5:39:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: gusopol3
A fish rots from the head, as we always say here.

yeah and the head fish is a bottom feeder, a bottom sucker if you will...........I may have mispelled that last one.

8 posted on 09/30/2015 5:45:38 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: I want the USA back

The turd is/was an Assistant Director, possibly/likely a political appointee or politically connected. That is not new but doesn’t necessarily reflect on the actual operators/agents themselves.


9 posted on 09/30/2015 5:49:52 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: gusopol3
Should release Rep McCarthy affair info. That would even the score. Don't need McC.
10 posted on 09/30/2015 6:12:07 PM PDT by Pit1 (The Obama's are on their way out, never to be heard from again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The SS? The same SS that hires hookers... And then compounds the problem by failing to pay the hookers? That SS is going to dare to dish dirt on its political enemies?


11 posted on 09/30/2015 7:39:48 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Page not found.


12 posted on 10/01/2015 12:08:53 AM PDT by conservativegranny (Cruz 2016)
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To: conservativegranny

That was the original title.

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2015/09/top-secret-service-official-urged-release-of-unflattering-information-about-congressman-chairman-of-the-committee-which-oversees-secret-service/

They seem to have changed it, and probably the article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/watchdog-top-secret-service-official-wanted-information-about-chaffetz-made-public/2015/09/30/ff280378-67ae-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html


13 posted on 10/01/2015 6:25:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is interesting... notice the date- wonder if there was more to the weird attempt to embarass Chaffetz than meets the eye - maybe an indirect message to someone else? :

MARCH 31, 2015 : (SECRET SERVICE ASST DIRECTOR EDWARD LOWERY EMAILS A FELLOW DIRECTOR ABOUT THE "NEED" TO EMBARASS HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE JASON CHAFFETZ) An assistant director of the Secret Service urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of the service should be made public, according to a government watchdog report released Wednesday.
“Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out,” Assistant Director Edward Lowery wrote in an e-mail to a fellow director on March 31, [2015] commenting on an internal file that was being widely circulated inside the service. “Just to be fair.”
Two days later, a news Web site reported that Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, had applied to be a Secret Service agent in 2003 and been rejected.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...--- Top Secret Service official urged release of unflattering information about congressman The Washington Compost ^ | 09/30/2015 | Carol D. Leonnig and Jerry Markon , Posted ...by E. Pluribus Unum

Same day:

MARCH 31, 2015 : (CONFERENCE CALL INCLUDES PLATTE RIVER NETWORKS, HILLARY CLINTON LAWYER DAVID KENDALL, SERVER ADMINISTRATOR PAUL COMBETTA, AND CLINTON AIDE CHERYL MILLS ... THIS SAME DAY COMBETTA DELETES HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAIL ARCHIVES) Indeed, even the FBI’s now-public investigative files show that the FBI had knowledge that federal records were deleted. The FBI’s interview summary of Secretary Clinton said that she was asked about “a PRN work ticket, which referenced a conference call among PRN, Kendall, and Mills on March 31, 2015.”
PRN stands for Platte River Networks, the company that administered Secretary Clinton’s non-government server. Kendall is David Kendall, her attorney. And Mills is Cheryl Mills, her former Chief of Staff at the State Department.
Paul Combetta, the administrator of her server, was also on the conference call and was interviewed multiple times by the FBI. He admitted he lied to the FBI in his initial interviews, and got immunity from the FBI in exchange for agreeing to tell them the truth. According to the summary of that interview, Mr. Combetta deleted Secretary Clinton’s email archives on March 31, 2015.
So, you have a conference call with Secretary Clinton’s attorneys on March 31, 2015 and on that very same day her emails are deleted by someone who was on that conference call using special BleachBit software.
----The American People Deserve the Whole Story": Grassley on Importance of Congressional Oversight US Senate Floor ^ | Dec 7, 2017 | Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa

Rogues throughout government.

14 posted on 12/07/2017 10:20:05 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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