A Tipoff By The Secret Service Blew Up The Federal Probe Of Alleged Imposter Duo

[Zorro]

Before federal agents stormed a luxury apartment building in D.C. last week, the suspects accused of impersonating federal agents already knew they were under investigation.

They had been tipped off by the Secret Service two days earlier.

That misstep by the government has gotten its case off on the wrong foot, rushing prosecutors into a series of embarrassing errors and miscues.

Under the gun by an error of the government’s doing, prosecutors have been scrambling to recover. It hasn’t been pretty.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/a-tipoff-by-the-secret-service-blew-up-the-federal-probe-of-alleged-imposter-duo

[DURHAM D]

1. Good God ! The problem is the Secret Service.

They tipped off the enemy for a few bucks? Sick

Trump supporters.

[2naSalit]

2. So can we call THEM traitors?

[DURHAM D]

3. Totally

Put them in jail and throw away their phones.

[empedocles]

5. Recall the Secret Service was the source of Clinton WH household embarassments

by inside leaks.

[DURHAM D]

12. Oh yes, I had forgotten that.

Didn't they also put out some trash about Michelle Obama?

[SharonAnn]

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Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today — from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled.

The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and excellence would not last forever. By Barack Obama’s presidency, the once-proud Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mistakes and alarming lapses in judgement: break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing into the windows of the residence while confused agents stood by, and a massive prostitution scandal among agents in Cartagena, to name just a few. With Donald Trump’s arrival, a series of promised reforms were cast aside, as a president disdainful of public service instead abused the Secret Service to rack up political and personal gains.

To explore these problems in the ranks, Leonnig interviewed dozens of current and former agents, government officials, and whistleblowers who put their jobs on the line to speak out about a hobbled agency that’s in desperate need of reform. 'I will be forever grateful to them for risking their careers,' she writes, ‘not because they wanted to share tantalising gossip about presidents and their families, but because they know that the Service is broken and needs fixing. By telling their story, they hope to revive the Service they love.'

[Historic NY]

4. Time to clean house.

Trump stench of green .

[rockfordfile]

10. I agree. Those pos are traitors

[Kid Berwyn]

6. SS agent Abraham Bolden testified about corrupt JFK detail.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2022/1/14/22883963/abraham-bolden-first-black-secret-service-agent-pardon-efforts

Of course, for his trouble, he was labeled all sorts of names and railroaded by the State.

[Ocelot II]

7. WTF was going on with those Secret Service agents?

Looks like they belong in the frame along with the suspects the FBI busted.

[Tommy Carcetti]

8. You mean Milli Vanilli?

Sorry, wrong decade.

[RockRaven]

9. Anyone who paid any attention during TFG years knows the USSS is corrupt and unprofessional.

So a "misstep" or "miscue" like this is more expected than surprising.

[Brainfodder]

11. That statement is ODD? Tipped off? Why not arrested on the spot? DUH!??!

[Hekate]

13. Now there's an agency that needs to be, shall we say, purged

Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch

[Midnight Writer]

14. Hate Radio Talker Dan Bongino is cautioning against jumping to conclusions before all facts known.

He is, of course, ex Secret Service himself.

He also, of course, spends 3 hours a day on the radio accusing hard-working people of every imaginable crime with absolutely no evidence.

I hate these assholes.