{"id":58720,"date":"2015-03-13T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58720"},"modified":"2015-03-12T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:23:41","slug":"keystone-secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58720","title":{"rendered":"Keystone Secret Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, on March 4th at about 10:30 PM, according to the Washington Post<\/a>, a woman hopped out of her car on 15th Street, near the White House, and approached some Secret Service guards carrying a package wrapped in a shirt and she yelled that she was holding a bomb. Then she dropped it and ran back to her car and tried to escape, hitting an officer a few times until she was successful.<\/p>\n

Pretty exciting, huh? But, that’s not the end of it. At about 11PM, two senior agents drove onto the scene from their night out down in Chinatown, a few blocks away;<\/p>\n

[The senior agents] drove their government car through the crime scene. According to people familiar with the incident, they drove through police tape and then hit a temporary barricade, using the car to push aside some barrels. An agency official said Thursday that the car was not damaged.<\/p>\n

The episode was caught on surveillance video. Investigators who reviewed the tape of the incident initially said they couldn\u2019t be sure if the pair drove very close to or over the suspicious item wrapped in the shirt, one law enforcement official said. But after reviewing more tape later on Thursday afternoon, the official said, they concluded the agents\u2019 government car drove directly next to the package. <\/p>\n

Secret Service officers…wanted to arrest the agents \u2014 but a more senior supervisor at the complex told them to let the agents go, the officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, alcohol was involved. The woman was known to the Secret Service and it looks like she might end up in court answering for her assault on the officer with her car. But, it wasn’t until 3\/4 of an hour later, after the two inebriated agents drove through the crime scene that it was determined that there was no bomb. One of the agents was Marc Connolly who is second in command of the president’s security detail.<\/p>\n

I understand that when the agents are off duty, they have a right to blow off steam, but these fellows were partying in a government vehicle, you know one of the vehicles we bought for protection of the president and his family, not for joy riding around the middle of the District. And if they were off-duty, what were they doing at a crime scene? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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