Posted on 03/26/2014 7:47:06 PM PDT by kristinn
As the U.S. Secret Service arrived in the Netherlands last weekend for a presidential trip, managers were already on high alert to avoid any further embarrassing incidents involving agents.
The agency’s director had admonished supervisors after two counter-sniper officers suspected of drinking were involved in a March 7 car accident during a presidential visit to Miami, according to several people with knowledge of the incident. The driver passed a field sobriety test and was not arrested.
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Those with knowledge of the internal investigation said the incident infuriated managers because it came less than three weeks after the traffic accident in Miami, which led to the two officers involved being sent home. Local police gave one of the officers a field sobriety test on suspicion of drunk driving but released him with a citation for the accident and no additional charges, those familiar with the incident said.
The two officers, who serve in the uniformed division, notified their superiors of the accident. They were ordered to return to Washington under Pierson’s “no tolerance” policy, an official familiar with the matter said. The two men continue to work for the agency.
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Huis Ter Duin spokesman Stephan Stokkermans said the three guests involved in the incident, whom he declined to identify, under hotel privacy rules, arrived in an apparently intoxicated condition at the hotel early Sunday morning by taxi.
“They came in, they waved to the team at the reception desk,” Stokkermans said. “It was clear they had a good time, but they didn’t need any help.”
Later that morning, he said, a hotel employee discovered one of those guests sleeping in the hallway about 10 feet from his room, which had a key-card-style lock. It was about 30 feet from the nearest elevator, and the employee summoned co-workers for assistance.
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“two counter-sniper officers suspected of drinking”
If I had to throw myself in front of a bullet headed for that turd I would probably develop an alcohol habit too...
The SS (Secret Service, not Sturm Soldaten) ain’t what it used to be, is it? I wonder if moral has anything to do with the current situation?
Why is this even being reported? This what you get with this assclown mentality. Party duds, enjoying the fruits of being elitist with this administration. It will only end when this trash is no longer in office.
YUP, no doubt that Obama and his staff treat their SS protection like absolute crap...
Imagine having to protect Valerie Jarrett.....
Watching her eat live mice... ugh...
That would demormalize me as well... 
And WHY does the "sleestack in chief" even get SS protection? Isn't that just really Odd....
Corrected link => http://nypost.com/2002/02/26/not-so-secret-service-for-vp-at-olympics/
When you look over the footprint of the travel entourage, the Secret Service grew at a hefty rate in the 1990s, and it’s bulked up big in the last ten years. All of this attracted a bunch of wannabe Secret Service folks...who get into trouble on these foreign trips. They said for this trip....there’s 900 support personnel who traveled to Europe with the President. When Nixon did his trips....how many did he have? I’ll bet it was a quarter of that number.
...send more tequila....
The very first day of the Haiku Guy Administration, I would call up the Barracks at 18th and Eye and tell them to send over 400 Marines. I would then turn to the head of my Secret Service detail and inform him that their services would no longer be required, and give them 24 hours to vacate the White House.
Evidently the conduct of Secret Service agents has regressed from mere (?) fecklessness to a culture of drunken revelry and debauchery.
I’d say the Cheney incidents were worse than the Netherlands incident. It’s all fish from the same barrel.
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