{"id":30436,"date":"2012-06-19T12:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30436"},"modified":"2012-06-19T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:03:50","slug":"more-secret-service-issues-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30436","title":{"rendered":"More Secret Service Issues Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like another report of bad behavior by the Secret Service has surfaced. And this time, it&#8217;s a bit more troublesome than the last one.<\/p>\n<p>This new report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/06\/19\/exclusive-secret-service-agents-partied-like-rock-stars-on-obamas-vineyard-vacation\/\">involves the POTUS protective detail <\/a>operating on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard &#8211; including the Counter Assault and Counter Sniper teams.\u00a0 And it includes a clear allegation that the Secret Service ignored or &#8220;lost&#8221; at least one report of agent misbehavior, as well as indications that local law enforcement may have helped keep things &#8220;quiet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;bad&#8221; behaviors alleged run the gamut from letting local children see\/touch Secret Service weapons (oh, the horror!) to hard off-duty partying to loss of credentials to disclosing sensitive operational details. The first two? Meh. The last two? Uh, different story.<\/p>\n<p>The article is relatively long, and includes quotations from named witnesses. It seems credible.<\/p>\n<p>A few scattered incidents here and there are what you&#8217;d expect in any 4400-person organization. But you wouldn&#8217;t expect to find the Secret Service playing fast and loose with info regarding operations. And we&#8217;ve now seen reports of more than a few scattered incidents here and there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look like there might well be a leadership problem at the Secret Service. A serious leadership problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like another report of bad behavior by the Secret Service has surfaced. And this &hellip; <a title=\"More Secret Service Issues Surface\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30436\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Secret Service Issues Surface<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}