Posted on 10/19/2016 5:01:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton's contempt for the Secret Service is legendary. In recent years, several biographers have written tell-alls about the Clinton-era White House that detailed her disrespectful behavior toward the people tasked with keeping her safe.
You would think that as she aged in the post-Clinton White House years, she would have become mellower and easier to get along with. But you would be wrong. According to FBI documents released Monday, State Department security personnel so disliked Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of State that many agents left the agency or asked to be reassigned. Hillary Clinton is credited with making the previously prestigious security job sought after by senior agents into one staffed by n00bs.
The revelations come from an interview summary of one unnamed Department of Homeland Security official that was conducted as part of the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information while secretary of state.
“Prior to CLINTON’s tenure, being an agent on the Secretary of State’s protective detail was seen as an honor and privilege reserved for senior agents. However, by the end of CLINTON’s tenure, it was staffed largely with new agents because it was difficult to find senior agents willing to work for her,” the interview summary states.
The official who was interviewed worked for the Department of Homeland Security and was a previous State employee.
The official said Secret Service agents also complained that Clinton “disregarded security and diplomatic protocols, occasionally without regard for the safety of her staff and protection detail, in order to gain favorable press.” According to the official, Clinton refused to travel by armored limousine with the U.S. ambassador as is standard diplomatic and security protocol when the secretary of State visits a foreign country.
“CLINTON refused to do so, instead choosing to be accompanied in the limousine by her Chief of Staff, HUMA ABEDIN. This frequently resulted in complaints by ambassadors who were insulted and embarrassed by this breach of protocol,” the summary says. Clinton’s breaches of protocol, it adds, were “well-known throughout Diplomatic Security and were ‘abundant.'”
The report goes on to say that DS agents were "indignant" because Clinton refused to leave her BlackBerry outside of her office as required, as it is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), while the agents had to leave their cell phones at the door.
That Hillary Clinton has habitually behaved disgracefully toward Secret Service personnel is by now beyond dispute. Former Washington Post reporter Ronald Kessler has similar anecdotes in First Family Detail, as does Edward Klein in both The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House and Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary. Gary Byrne, a 29-year veteran of the military and federal law enforcement, published his book in June: Crisis of Character: White House Secret Service Officer Discloses his Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate. It includes bombshell revelations about the Clintons, focusing on Hillary's “Jekyll and Hyde” personality that left Secret Service personnel and White House staffers living "in terror of her next tirade."
It's probably safe to say that the Secret Service community is not looking forward to working for a Hillary Clinton White House.
Just sour grapes from disgruntled federal workers. If it ain’t on video or audio like the bus ambush 11 years ago of DJT, it never happened. We all know how FBI agents lie and cheat. Oh..................
They hated it, but still did it. Don’t wanna screw up losing that pension.
Caligula......
we can only hope for such a change
Glad I’m not secret service; I wouldn’t take a bullet for that b*tch.
I’m amazed that there is anyone on this Earth who would.
No, they didn’t do it. Read the original text again. They either sought reassignment or quit outright. New agents got that job because experienced ones wouldn’t do it.
At the end of a Trump rally I attended in New Hampshire last August I got to talk for a minute or so to a Secret Service agent who was working the event.I asked him that very question,keeping in mind the reports that I,and others,had heard of SS Agents not liking the Clintons.He just smiled...not saying a word.I took that smile to mean “you don’t know the half of it,pal”.
Now that is interesting.
I bet Trump is polite with those who are charged with protecting him.
Did you ask the Secret Service guy if he liked being on the Trump detail?
The only people who can stomach Hillary are those who don’t know anything about her.
What happened was that at the end of the rally everyone,obviously,headed for the exit...me being among the first to reach it because I was closest to it when DJT wrapped up.The agents wouldn't let anyone out until DJT had left the venue...which is routine security policy.So standing a few feet away from one of the agents who was blocking the exit was when I got my chance.
Yes,I did ask him that but he refused to specifically answer that one too...understandably so.Answering it could,I'll bet,jeopardize his job.But,as I said,he did give me a particular smile when I asked him about the Clintons.
To a man/woman.... it is universally held that the Clintons where/are the most hated family who ever moved into the WH.
It is a mirror image description of the comments here by security personnel.
The Clintons had no idea of how to conduct themselves to subordinates... and had absolutely NO respect for tradition, protocols, established rules and procedures. They respect no one and nothing. It's ALL about THEM.
Regarding the office at the Dept of State building:
“...The report goes on to say that DS agents were “indignant” because Clinton refused to leave her BlackBerry outside of her office as required, as it is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), while the agents had to leave their cell phones at the door. ...”
Leaving the cell phones outside a SCIF is MANDATORY.
Not leaving them outside is a security VIOLATION.
If —anyone else— had done this repeatedly, as she did, they would have had their security clearance yanked and subsequently lost their job.
And that’s just one egregious breach of the security laws she’s done; others include not having security and help for the guys at Benghazi.
Hillary is unfit to be CinC.
Absolutely unqualified.
She should be in jail for what she’s done.
There’s a LOT more to this story, believe me. It wasn’t just the USSS agents on her protective detail, it was every swinging Richard on the White House staff and they held Al Gore in similar contempt.
In a conversation with his ne’er do well son, Gore once told him (while riding in a limo with USSS agents), “You’d better get your shit together or you’ll end up like these f***ing monkeys who drive me around every day!” The service couldn’t keep agents on Hillary’s or Gore’s detail for long.
I don’t doubt that one bit.
He is the one who brought up the fact that when she would walk the halls of the White House, you had to avert your eyes and not look at her, or leave her presence by slipping into an office door to avoid seeing her.
She sounds like my pitbull, avoid looking him in the eye and he won't growl and attack you.
Take a bullet for that woman? I think not. You can always fail and call it a wardrobe malfunction. They had to discuss that amongst themselves. Trump can cover their pension if they wish to speak out but then I’m still waiting for the FBI agents to resign. Ain’t gonna happen unless they surprise us.
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