As scandal continues to envelop the Secret Service, InsideSources has learned of a security failure leading up to the 2012 election. Multiple sources inside the Romney presidential campaign confirm that a Secret Service agent provided details of President Obama’s schedule several days prior to the President’s campaign stops becoming public.
While sources involved in other presidential campaigns tell InsideSources that Secret Service detail assigned to each campaign will sometimes disclose private and personal information about those they are assigned to protect to opposing campaign staff, this instance in particular is very revealing of failures inside the Secret Service.
In the closing weeks of the 2012 campaign, a Secret Service agent was on the ground in a key swing state to coordinate security ahead of several campaign stops by the President. The agent, who was married, made advances towards a Romney campaign staff member.
InsideSources spoke with two staffers who witnessed the events in question. Each spoke on condition of anonymity and independently confirmed the details.
You know I used to have a great deal of respect for the men and women who stand between the President of the United States and those who mean him harm, but now I almost feel the whole agency should be disbanded and a new one started from scratch.
I think this guy said it best:
When asked about the recent spate of security issues surrounding the Secret Service, a former member of the Presidential advance team under President Bush said, “Seeing firsthand the considerable threat the President is under and how seriously so many of these agents take their duty, it’s very concerning that there are some who would put the lives of the President and their Secret Service colleagues in peril. The President isn’t just a person; he’s an institution, a third of our functioning government, and a primary target for any country or group who would seek to do our country harm.”
Damn straight!
What fuckers! I'm looking at these SS guys like I do the city police forces we have around the country today. None of them are to be trusted!
ReplyDeleteThey need to fire every damned one of them in the Secret Service and hire new with specific questions included in the interviews. Can you guess what some of them might be folks w/regard to our wonderful POTUS?
I worry for the safety of President Obama and his family members. Nothing better happen to any of them, that is for sure!
Ok. They are going to have to fire all R Secret Service or place them elsewhere until a new potus is elected.
DeleteThis partisan shit has gone too far. Chaney consorting with Palin, Bongino also too and now this guy?
WTF! WTF!
It seems the Service also,too is a bunch of horndogs who can't keep "it" in their pants...from the linked article:
Delete"In the closing weeks of the 2012 campaign, a Secret Service agent was on the ground in a key swing state to coordinate security ahead of several campaign stops by the President. The agent, who was married, made advances towards a Romney campaign staff member."
A Politicsusa article said a SS saying was Wheels up, rings off" for them removing wedding bands after the planes took off.
DeleteRegardless of any opinion of a president the lax protection is a national to international security threat.
DeleteI said to my husband yesterday, "You know I would love to know how many of the SS people are right wingers". He just laughed at me and said I should not even be thinking that way. I told him if it could happen to the SCOTUS who are majority right wingers, it can happen within the SS.
ReplyDeleteI'd also love to know what kind of psychological tests are given to SS and it needs to include tests of bipartisanship.
The SCOTUS needs term limits. I used to admire these justices but not anymore since what I've seen since Obama was elected. I hope it's not true but on the other hand I wouldn't be surprised to find out if certain members of the SS neglected duties ON PURPOSE hoping the worst. Yes, it's sad I would think that way...but hey it's happening all around us all the time.
The guy stationed inside the door was "pushed", not injured in anyway. Yet he allows the intruder to advance through the White House? He didn't go after him (after recovering from the shock of being "pushed" by an intruder? He didn't call for backup? He just sat there licking his injured ego? He should not be allowed on this detail ever again.
DeleteOh, I don't know. I think I can find the guy at the door an appropriate detail: guarding Bo Obama and policing him after he leaves a detail on the lawn.
DeleteI'd fire 'em all (let 'em reapply and get re-background checked and MAYBE rehired) and prosecute the ones who put me at risk.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
DeleteThey need to seriously clean the entire house.
If I was into conspiracies, I would be looking at Cheney and the moles he may have left behind...
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the movie White House Down. I thought is was far fetched, but it probably was more realistic than most thought.
DeleteWe have seen so much corruption and ugliness in our government since the election of President Obama. And, I blame it on the Republicans who dislike him so much - either for being black or because he remains calm and cool - honestly think they are trying to break him one way or another!
ReplyDeleteI'm an elder and have been around a long, long time and have never seen anything like this in all my life.
It's so obvious the SS doesn't like President Obama and could care less about protecting him and his family! It makes me sick to my stomach.
The members of the current SS need to all be fired and a new force put together with proper venting of each individual during employment interviews.
I so hope President Obama and his family members stay safe. I feel so sorry for them! Our president has so much on his plate....cannot imagine carrying the load he does!
And, I blame it on the Republicans who dislike him so much -
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Lets put the blame where it belongs....
"He's not like us" ~Sarah Palin
"Don't retreat reload" ~Sarah Palin
:"Kill him": at a VPOTUS rally ~Sarah palin smiled approvingly....
Sarah Palin, Fox news needs to have their FCC license or whatnot removed, she need to zip up her lip or be arrested for Treason, sedition and hate speech and all of the R's in congress also too.
I am ashamed of my country, my flag b/c of these ASSHOLES!
I have a flag from my dad's burial that is in my closet not proudly displayed for what he fought for and the Republicans destroyed.
I will not show it nor fly it.
It might as well be the USSR flag!
And now this more and more come out about the service! Malia littmen has FOIA after FOIA to DHS and John MCCain and Darrel ISSA who dropped the Secret Service issue when the Palin connection popped up! I am god damned sick and tired of this shit.
I would not be surprised if they try /tried to assassinate President Obama. The level of hatred is nothing like when Kennedy was president and look what happened. Now we find out all this stuff about the secret service.
Delete5:13 PM I am just as mad as you! Sarah Palin has caused/created nothing but evil, hate, racism and ugliness since McCain brought her on the scene.
DeleteAnd, he still has the balls to continually go after our great POTUS (whose ratings are currently going UP which is really going to upset the Republicans). McCain truly hates him because he lost by a big margin to a black man as well as the fact President Obama won a second term! That really unhinged McCain!
The jerk should be expelled from the U.S. Congress and Palin, the 'unamerican' liar and fraud should be hung from the rafters! The two of them deserve each other and I'm sure in their world today neither gives a flying fuck for the other!
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ReplyDeleteI found the second paragraph of this article really disturbing. How can it ever be appropriate for a SS to ever disclose to anyone what is going on with the prez.
As many of you know - Malia has been fighting her own little war with our government concerning the SS. This is all just so horrible.
Pat Padrnos
Time to dust off Shalley Tripp's book "Boys Will Be Boys." And reprint all Malia's carefully documented sexual abuses by the SS.
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DeleteThe incident with David Chaney is not in BWBB. Shay was introduced to David Chaney as one of Todd's "co-workers". It wasn't until she saw a pic of David Chaney in the Cartegena news coverage that she found out...he was a SS and she had sexually serviced him. But still read her book.
And read all of Malia's coverage FOIA etc.
"You know I used to have a great deal of respect for the men and women who stand between the President of the United States and those who mean him harm, but now I almost feel the whole agency should be disbanded and a new one started from scratch. "
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Gryphen are you saying that you lost respect for the Secret Service? The same agency that sent a detail to Alaska to provide security for our Sarah Palin in 2008? The same Secret Service whose agent screwed an Alaskan single struggling mother out of her prostitution wages and her pimp Todd Palin, who sent Shailey Tripp to the Secret Service agent, did nothing about it?
And it's been like that for decades. Though the government is any better.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the same source G posted:
"The leaked schedule was later passed on within the campaign. Others inside the campaign recall seeing the schedule, but the source of the information was not revealed. The schedule, therefore, was met only with skepticism. The details of the President’s schedule later proved to be accurate.
Former advisers to the Romney campaign note that the leaked schedule, which was not widely circulated within the campaign, did not impact the campaign’s strategy. It received little attention as the election was days away."
Romney campaign staffers apparently knew they had advance access to the POTUS schedule (did they also know the First Lady's or the VPOTUS schedules?), but only after the fact did they realize the leaked information was accurate.
Also at least two Romney staffers apparently knew a source of the information was the Secret Service.
How did the Romney campaign report this major security failure?
They did report it to the appropriate authorities?
Didn't they?
I suspect the appropriate FOIAs (to find out if this was reported) are already being filed.
Any bets on whether Mr. Horndog Secret Service agent was a MORmON?
I think that that the Romney campaign should now be part of any Secret Service investigation.
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Yes! I agree, I wonder how we can get that going?
DeleteI wonder if this guy was a Mormon? There is so many in these kind of positions. They have their own agenda and not for the good of the country.
ReplyDeleteMy ex husband is a ss agent and we are in a bitter custody battle 8 years after our divorce. The case is so black and white in everyone's eyes, it seems criminal! Although others have tried to convince me that there is bribery or something shady behind the way this case has gone down- I refused to believe it. I totally think he has people working behind the scenes for him- and believe me- I will uncover it!
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