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Secret Service Can’t Find Tons Of Its Guns, Phones, Badges And Cars
The Daily Caller ^ | 18 Nov 2016 | KATHRYN WATSON

Posted on 11/18/2016 6:32:13 AM PST by mandaladon

Thousands of sensitive assets belonging to U.S. Secret Service agents, including firearms, computer laptops, work badges, telephones and even motor vehicles, have been lost during the past 15 years, according to documents obtained by nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch.

“This is supposedly an elite law enforcement agency — how did all this equipment get stolen?” or lost. “This is alarming. Every American should be alarmed about this,” Judicial Watch’s Irene Garcia told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Secret Service agents reported 11,780 lost or stolen assets between fiscal years 2001 and 2016, according to the data Judicial Watch received, although the agency didn’t distinguish between lost and stolen items.

A total of 121 “weapons/pistols” were lost or stolen from 2001 through 2016, including 69 in 2002 alone. The Secret Service also reported 736 cell phones, 571 badges and six vehicles as lost or stolen in that same period. (RE

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; govtabuse; judicialwatch; politics; protection; secretservice; ssscandal; trump; usss
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The Secret Service took nearly a year to answer Judicial Watch’s December 2015 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documentation on all assets reported missing since 2001. Judicial Watch made the request as a part of a larger investigation.-------------------This happening during Obama's wathc!
1 posted on 11/18/2016 6:32:13 AM PST by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Check the clinton foundation.


2 posted on 11/18/2016 6:35:10 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote
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To: mandaladon

Nobody here really believes they were lost or stolen do they?? My money says they were GIVEN TO THE DRUG CARTELS to keep the Money Flowing in to the CIA.


3 posted on 11/18/2016 6:35:32 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: mandaladon

Did Judicial Watch check ebay?


4 posted on 11/18/2016 6:35:56 AM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: mandaladon

Here’s a place Trump needs to get someone in charge of to clean up.


5 posted on 11/18/2016 6:38:26 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: mandaladon

” including 69 in 2002 alone”

I’m pretty sure Obama wasn’t president in ‘02.


6 posted on 11/18/2016 6:39:06 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: mandaladon

We-e-e-el, lost in GW’s AND Barky’s.


7 posted on 11/18/2016 6:39:32 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in theolog and politics.)
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To: Tucker39

[We-e-e-el, lost in GW’s AND Barky’s.]

Don’t forget... TRUMP is the one not fit to serve!!


8 posted on 11/18/2016 6:48:35 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: mandaladon

Have they looked under the sofa cushions?


9 posted on 11/18/2016 6:48:57 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: mandaladon

Check Keith Ellsion’s basement.


10 posted on 11/18/2016 6:50:10 AM PST by LIConFem ( III)
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To: WayneS
More assets were lost or stolen in fiscal year 2004 than any other year — 1,362, most of which were uncategorized.

Okay, then. An addendum to my previous post:

Have they checked under the sofa cushions at the Bush ranch?

11 posted on 11/18/2016 6:52:07 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Black Agnes
I believe the guns were lost in boating accidents on the Potomac.
12 posted on 11/18/2016 6:53:26 AM PST by Hang'emAll (If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
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To: Black Agnes

No, but it feels like he was! Longest 8 years I can remember.


13 posted on 11/18/2016 6:59:36 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("Elections have consequences." Barack Obama)
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To: mandaladon

....”badges” may include the “lapel pins” issued to those other than actual USSS agents. Military Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), White House Communications Agency , Augmentee FLEAS & LEOS, Local and DOD K9, Tech Services Division etcetera.

Same applies to vehicles. 90% of vehicles used by USSS missions are local rentals. Yeah they get stolen. Then there is the Radios. My era they were Moterola Saber III’s with DES and yes they were lost and stolen or just not turned in for what ever reason.

The current USSS chief cook and bottle washer is an asshole of the nth degree and deserves all the grief he can be punished with .

I’m not excusing the losses just letting all know during my era such losses were routine . Except for the sidearms lost. Wasn’t a bullet catcher so wasn’t issued one in tech services division .

Loosing a firearm in my job was like loosing a member of my own family. Theft of firearms locked in hotel rooms or rental cars and even checked baggage if not flying on official duty etcetera was common but rare.


14 posted on 11/18/2016 7:01:57 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: mandaladon

Did they lose their car while shopping at Walmart.
I’ve done that a few times...embarrassing.


15 posted on 11/18/2016 7:04:24 AM PST by Leep (Winner winner chicken dinner!)
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To: mandaladon
It's odd...in my life I have never misplaced, lost track of, lost or had stolen any of the numerous firearms I've owned. (Except for that one silly and unfortunate boating accident)

Yet every 6 years I have to apply for a permit to simply own one let alone carry one. These apes are given one without so much as a "How do you do" and then lose them with no consequences other than an "Oops".

16 posted on 11/18/2016 7:04:48 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: Black Agnes

“Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.” Angelo Codevilla


17 posted on 11/18/2016 7:08:06 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: mewzilla

Can’t dispute that statement in the least.


18 posted on 11/18/2016 7:08:45 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: mandaladon

Secret Service? Let’s see....

Gun left in toilet at brothel.
Gun slipped out unnoticed between bed and wall in hooker’s hotel room.
Traded car for drugs.
Loaned car to hooker, but she never came back.
Pants with badge on them stolen while asleep in hooker’s hotel room.
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.
.


19 posted on 11/18/2016 7:09:20 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: mandaladon

Check the lake.


20 posted on 11/18/2016 7:09:47 AM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President-Elect Trump)
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