A call from the Hay-Adams hotel this past spring reporting that a Secret Service agent was trying to force his way into a woman’s room set in motion an internal investigation that has sent tremors through an agency still trying to restore its elite reputation.
The incident came a year after the agency was roiled by a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, prompting vows from senior officials to curb a male-dominated culture of hard partying and other excesses.
The service named its first female director, Julia Pierson, seven months ago, and an extensive inspector general report on the agency’s culture launched in the wake of the Cartagena scandal is expected to be released in coming weeks.
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The Secret Service is, without question, the most powerful police agency in the country. They are exempt from just about any laws that govern you and I and even other police agencies. When you wield that much authority and power, it soon goes to your head. Hence the behavior. And these are incidents that come out publicly, not the ones that get intimidated into a cover up, or swept under the rug, or just ignored.
ReplyDeletei hope they remove ALL of his SS protection.
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