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Secret Service Agent Leaked Obama's Campaign Schedule
"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."
http://www.insidesources.com/is-exclusive-secret-service-agent-leaked-presidents-campaign-stops/
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/10/02/secret_service_agent_leaked_obamas_campaign_schedule.html
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Kablooie
(18,571 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)it was widely reported that for his visit to Chicago yesterday and today (economic speech at Northwestern; campaigning for Governor Quinn), Obama would be landing at the Gary, Indiana, airport rather than O'Hare or Midway. This of course is not to cause further disruptions at those airports after the fire set at the radar facility last week caused major, ongoing delays and problems. But why does the public need to know where Air Force One is landing? Yes, it's our plane, but it's not particularly need-to-know information. And the Gary airport can't be that well protected.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)kas125
(2,472 posts)he usually does land there because it's faster to get to his home from here than it is from O'Hare or Midway.
That's not true. Air Force One has never before landed in Gary. Never. Not once.
http://wgnradio.com/2014/10/02/garychicago-international-airport-airforce-one-first-time-in-gary-in/
Why would you make something like that up? Do you think we're stupid?
kas125
(2,472 posts)landed there on airforce one, but he did use our airport during his campaign flights because it's the fastest route to his house. There have been articles in our newspaper about plans to use the airport for airforce one and I must have thought that they were doing it because of those.
And damn, you're rude.
Cha
(295,925 posts)President Barack Obama has his picture taken with U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and Gary, Indiana Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson after stepping off Air Force One at Gary/Chicago International Airport to begin a two-day visit to the Chicago area
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/02/rise-and-shine-917/
annabanana
(52,791 posts)I have wondered on more than one occasion about the personnel. Any rabid fox viewers among the rank and file over there? The hate filled disconnect from reality put out by that outfit makes me nervous...
malaise
(267,823 posts)to said RW militias.
It is frightening because ReTHUGs and their corporate media hacks have been encouraging the hate.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)dhs=dept of bush leave behinds.
i dont care how many dems they put at the helm. the dept was not set up to protect the fatherland. it was set up to serve the elites.
FlatStanley
(327 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Sorry Charlie, but it was BOTH parties that proposed it. Nice try.
FlatStanley
(327 posts)But thank you for the link.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)of the Secret Service....
He didn't clean house....
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Is the Presidents life in danger from the Secret Service?
Scary to think that the ones charged with protecting the President could be his biggest danger.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)point to deep-seed many key civil service positions with extreme RW fundie types. I bet a *lot* of the SS are very RW, just as a lot of the military are.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)I work in Bronx Criminal Court. We have magnetometers and X ray machines. Even though I've worked there for decades a couple of the officers still ask me to show ID. Yet when we met with the President, while we were searched with a wand, they only gave a cursory look in my bag. They didn't inspect my phone. While I'm glad all my belongings weren't displayed in public ( woman's things), I wouldn't have really minded if it was.
One of my court officers said they would do a better job of protecting Obama and I believe it. It only takes one deranged tea party secret service person to do the unthinkable.
locdlib
(176 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)I knew from the moment it was big mistake when congress merged secret service with homeland agency.
RussBLib
(8,985 posts)...to get the President killed. I say clean out the whole nest of them and start over.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Leaking that sort of information must be considered a crime as that agent purposely put the lives of the president, his family, and fellow Secret Service agents in jeopardy.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)These traitors need to be fuckin arrested right goddamn now!
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)should not get anywhere near the President. Why can't they have full time employees do the security for the President and his family? Not really related to this but I wondered about the other incidents against the President and it was mentioned that one of the fired security personnel was a contractor.
blm
(112,920 posts)Now why is that wrong? If GOP and RW media are sincere about the messages they are sending to the GOP voter base, then these Secret Service members are only protecting the country from the anti-democracy 'tyrant' who stole the WH through widespread 'voter fraud' and tyranny......right?
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)The guy just appointed is a placeholder. The gal just outed used the Columbia scandal to get her crew in charge. Those opposed used the current scandal to get her crew out.
I assume this is returned fire against the old guard.
Childish yet predictable.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)We definitely need more good agents and less horndogs - geeesh
Botany
(70,291 posts)What should be one of the most protected buildings in the world had somebody
jump it's fence, run more then 50 yds to the front door, no guard dogs were
released, the person got into an unlocked door, overpower the guard at the door,
he got into and run around the building because the alarms were turned off, and was caught
because an off duty secret service agent just happened to be there.
These S.S. fuck ups might well be one more spin off from w's Presidency because
prior to 9/11 and then the Dept. of Homeland Security the Secret Service was
part of the Treasury Dept. and had two missions; Protect the President and his family
and stopping counterfeiting.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)A secret service agent giving out Obama's schedule after drinking to impress
some women ..... I wonder if he still has a job w/the secret service now?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 2, 2014, 11:44 AM - Edit history (1)
Are they a reputable news source?
herding cats
(19,549 posts)It appears they launched April 28th.
This is what I found when I looked at the Author of the article.
Shawn McCoy
Shawn is the Publisher of InsideSources. Previously, he served as Iowa Communications Director for the Romney Campaign and has advised other campaigns nationwide. Shawn has an MBA, concentrated in econometrics and statistics, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and he completed his undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame. He has a dog named Milton, after his favorite economist.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Sources are SO important. Just on what you have there, I don't have much faith in him. Worked for the Romney campaign and worships Milton Freidman? NOT my kind of guy, if you get my drift. I suggest we all take his info with a large grain of salt and Tequila.
herding cats
(19,549 posts)There's no denying there are a lot of people out there with agendas spreading lies and half-truths. I like to know where a person stands before I take what they say seriously.
In this case I completely agree with you. A healthy dose of skepticism should be used here.
The Secret Service response to this latest security breach is to request a larger secure area around the White House Complex. They want to put in random check points and just stop people who are walking around near the White House. As a life long Northern Virginia resident I have watched the federal triangle area slowly turn itself into the Green Zone. Here is a novel idea for the Secret Service, do your job right the first time and you wont have to worry about these screw ups. They fuck up and the public pays the price for their incompetence. As for political motivations the secret service officers are people too and I am sure they have their own political views. However the job of protecting any high ranking political official is supposed to be done in an apolitical manner. It appears that this is not the case.
tridim
(45,358 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)VA_Jill
(9,854 posts)I would swear there was a conspiracy in the Secret Service to take out the President. Maybe even the Vice President. That would make Bøner president, and it would be an easy matter to get rid of him.....then the Koch brothers could install whoever they wanted to......
Maybe there is. Time to CLEAN HOUSE. Top to bottom. The broom, please.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)This reminds me of "gossip." I know this is the norm in news reporting now. But I don't care if God does this kind of reporting, I don't trust it. "Sources," "two staffers," and "former advisers."
That doesn't mean we should totally disregard what Mr McCoy (Inside Sources) says, since it concerns the SS.
All we can do now, I guess, is trust the new Director (Clancy?) to clean the effing Secret Service organization, from top to bottom. Fuck the budget. Protect the WH and it's inhabitants, visitors & correspondents, no matter what the price ticket!
kpete
(71,901 posts)Report: Secret Service Agent Leaked Obama Info to Romney Campaign :
The Secret Service might need a new name. According to the policy website InsideSources, an unnamed Secret Service agent shared several campaign itineraries, detailing the movements and whereabouts of President Obama, with campaign staff of Republican nominee Mitt Romney in late 2012.
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The author of the report, Shawn McCoy, is a former Romney campaign staffer, and says that the leaked itinerary was not widely circulated within the Romney campaign and did not impact the campaigns strategy. He also points out that the agent was married when he made advances towards a Romney campaign staff member.
http://gawker.com/report-secret-service-agent-leaked-obama-info-to-romne-1641626175
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)And from a RW ex-Romney staffer no less.
Not that I don't think the SS needs a thorough review and housecleaning, just can't get too excited about what a guy with credentials like McCoy has to say.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)Because I would think that that is illegal.