4 top Secret Service executives told to leave their posts in agency shake-up

Washington Post ^ | January 14, 2015 | Carol D. Leonnig

[Second Amendment First]

The Secret Service has decided to remove four of its most senior officials while a fifth has decided to retire, the biggest management shake-up at the troubled agency since its director resigned in October after a string of security lapses, according to people familiar with internal discussions.

The departures would gut much of the Secret Service’s upper management, which has been criticized by lawmakers and administration officials in recent months for fostering a culture of distrust between agency leaders and its rank-and-file, and for making poor decisions that helped erode quality.

Acting Director Joseph P. Clancy on Tuesday informed the four assistant directors who oversee the Secret Service’s core missions of protection, investigations, technology and public affairs that they must leave their posts within 30 days.

If they do not resign or retire, they can report for a new assignment with the Secret Service’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the discussions.

[molson209]

The ones that would not swear alliance to Obama ?

[Blueflag]

At some point they just got tired of his 5h!t.

[rockrr]

The Secret Service has become irreparably contaminated due to prolonged exposure to Øbozo and needs to be purged in its entirety.

[Sooth2222]

To be replaced with four more who are just the correct tone of colo to satisfy Valerie Jarrett and her White House interior decorators?

[SomeCallMeTim]

It’s GOT to be tough duty these days... witnessing so much treason, and not being able to do anything about it.

[subterfuge]

People held as accountable in the obama regime? Unbelievable.

[onyx]

[PghBaldy]

If they actually go, we would have found one of the few govt jobs Obama considers important enough to fire people over.

[hinckley buzzard]

I am quite confident that the real reason for this Secret Service purge will never become publicly known. But watching who replaces these guys may give us a clue.

[Sacajaweau]

What the hell is going on....

[C210N]

I dunno... that could be raciss...

[spokeshave]

the four assistant directors who oversee the Secret Service’s core missions of protection, investigations, technology and public affairs that they must leave their posts within 30 days

To be replaced by the four political advisers to the assistant deputy directors.

[Sacajaweau]

Probably a bunch of Chicago thugs...

[hattend]

The Paris fiasco optics did them in.

[maine-iac7]

BINGO

[maine-iac7]

got more muzzie brothers to ‘install’

[Chickensoup]

so does this have anything to do with the SS avowing that the WH did not ask them about travel to France when WH said that SS said no?

[BeauBo]

Prepping the battlefield to defeat future threats, like a potential conservative in the office.

[FR_addict]

The Secret Service said they were not asked to provide a plan for Obama in France. I'm sure whoever made this statement is one of the 4 asked to leave.