{"id":60307,"date":"2015-06-11T07:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T11:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60307"},"modified":"2015-06-11T06:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:41:02","slug":"yet-more-secret-service-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60307","title":{"rendered":"Yet More Secret Service Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Secret Service is yet again in the news.  And as has been the recent norm \u2013 it hasn\u2019t been in the news in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>First:  it appears that one of the Secret Service agents working a First Lady event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/06\/11\/secret-service-agent-working-michelle-obama-event-on-leave-after-lewd-text\/\"><i>got a bit . . . randy using his phone recently.<\/i><\/a>  It apparently happened on his \u201cown time\u201d, but he\u2019s still on admin leave while this is sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>And, second:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/06\/10\/secret-service-officers-reportedly-posted-at-white-house-without-proper\/\"><i>apparently security clearances at the Secret Service are either thought to be unimportant or are treated somewhat carelessly<\/i><\/a>.  It seems that uncleared agents have been present at the White House lately &#8211; including at recent meetings involving classified information.<\/p>\n<p>The linked articles (both from Fox) give more details.  The first is IMO kinda \u201cmeh\u201d.   The second isn\u2019t, and points out a serious issue that needs fixing.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this means the \u201cnew\u201d Secret Service chief is having a wee bit of trouble turning things around.  Or maybe it means he\u2019s simply OK with the current status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Secret Service is yet again in the news. And as has been the recent &hellip; <a title=\"Yet More Secret Service Follies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60307\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet More Secret Service Follies<\/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":[209,213,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60307","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=60307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}