The current Presidential Secret Service is sure not the straight laced, uniquely disciplined, anal professionals, that I always thought that they were, and that I thought that they needed to be.
Recall some stories during the previous administration of agents being inebriated and visiting prostitutes.
The Secret Service seems to have some inherent problems.
You are thinking of Obama period scandals, Bush's secret service "scandal" was him willing to fight to defend his men.
"Melee in Chile seen as ‘big deal’" Law-enforcement authorities said the Chileans, who claimed to be in charge of security for the event, stopped Secret Service agent Nick Trotta as he was escorting Mr. Bush and first lady Laura Bush into the center, jumping in front of the agent as he approached the building entry. The authorities said the Chilean officers had seemed poised to act.
At least one Secret Service agent was shoved against a wall, the authorities said, as Mr. Trotta continued to push his way into the center. It was then that Mr. Bush responded, pushing into the crowd of angry security officials, pointing at Mr. Trotta and ordering that he be released. Mr. Bush finally reached over and grabbed the agent by the suit collar.
“He’s with me,” Mr. Bush said as he waded into the scuffle and pulled the agent through the crowd.
The authorities said the Chilean agents were shocked when they determined that the man pushing over them was Mr. Bush, who, they said, grabbed Mr. Trotta, adjusted his shirt cuffs and then winked at bystanders with the agent at his side.
La Cuarta, a Santiago newspaper, described Mr. Bush’s actions as a “total breach of protocol” and referred to him as “John Wayne … definitely acting like a cowboy.”
June 09, 2002 =>
In February, agents assigned to Vice President Cheney in the San Diego area finished their shift with a stop at a bar, where they got into a drunken brawl with a group of patrons. One of the agents bit off a piece of one man's ear in the fracas.
Before the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in February, agents dropped into a Salt Lake City snowboard shop to pick up souvenir hats. They accidentally left behind a step-by-step plan for protecting Cheney at the Games' closing ceremonies. "I happened to be in the right place at the right time, but if the right bad person found that, something really bad could have happened," said shop owner Clayton Greenhalgh, who returned the plan to the Secret Service.
In October 1999, a female agent guarding First Lady Hillary Clinton had her purse - containing her 357-caliber service weapon - stolen as she drank at the bar in Chicago's Fairmont Hotel, where Clinton was staying. Sources told the magazine the agent was promoted a grade between that and an earlier incident in which she lost her gun.
A Secret Service agent and an Air Force enlisted man were shot and wounded when they got into a bathroom brawl Aug. 4, 1999.
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