Posted on 04/05/2018 12:08:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Several weeks after taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt was running late and stuck in Washington, D.C., traffic. Sources tell CBS News that he wanted to use his vehicle's lights and sirens to get to his official appointment, but the lead agent in charge of his security detail advised him that sirens were to be used only in emergencies.
Less than two weeks later that agent was removed from Pruitt's detail, reassigned to a new job within the EPA.
Special Agent Eric Weese, a 16-year veteran of the EPA, was replaced by Pasquale "Nino" Perotta. Perrotta now leads Pruitt's unprecedented 24-hour Protective Service Detail.
Pruitt's lavish travel, which totals more than $182,000, according to the Environmental Integrity Project, has included first class domestic and international flights for him and his security detail, private charters and a military jet.
In a statement, EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson told CBS News, "We have no knowledge of anyone being removed from the detail for not using lights and sirens." Asked why Weese was removed, an EPA spokesman said "We do not comment on personnel matters within EPA's protective service detail."
Recently however, two Democratic senators wrote a letter to the EPA asking, "Under what circumstances did the prior Special Agent in Charge leave?"
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President Trump told us his selections wouldn’t behave like swampthings....What uranium did Pruitt sell?
Pruitt and DeVos have been dealing with mounting personal threats. Everywhere they go they are greeted with protests, and often times arrests. While I'd like to see the EPA eliminated, Pruitt is effectively disarming this department.
If they slide him over to Justice he can use the sirens.
Pruitt absolutely needs 24/7 security. There is a certain kind of Lefty nut for whom he is up there with the President and Vice President on the list of people they hate the most.
Full court MSM press on Pruitt.
What I want to know is; why does the Director of the EPA needs a SS detail?
You have to be kidding
Pruitt is rolling back the entire Obama EPA agenda and is focus of anger for every Green zealot and global warming nut on the planet
I have no problem with the 24/7 security for the Secretary—it is needed.
The siren is not appropriate unless there is an immediate security threat at that location and escape is the right move.
It’s not just the extremes like selling uranium. Pruitt (if this is true) put himself above the law. Can’t have that.
“...unprecedented 24-hour Protective Service Detail.”
The guy probably gets more death threats than even Trump. But once again, THEY control the media so they can make it seem like he’s a bit ‘paranoid’.
Pruitt can dress like Aladdin and have a damn taxpayer-funded harem of nubile beauties hand-feeding him grapes for all I care as long as he keeps doing the jobs he's been doing erasing the economically-devastating environmental regulations the Left has cursed us with.
What, he thought the Italian would be a little more willing to break the law? Racist.
The agent has had the position for 18 years. You can pretty much infer that he is a liberal and may have been a source of leaks from the EPA.
Once again, no names, just "sources"........Maybe you have a source?
What in the name of God are you talking about? I didn’t write the f—king article, I merely responded to it.
Oh, he wanted to do what cops do ALL THE TIME?!
What a horror.
Valerie Jarrett got security 24/7 because she stated she was threatened.
Even if he is, he’s our petty privileged a-hole. He is saving us from the destruction of our economy and standard of living.
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