First on CNN: Secret Service agent's gun, badge stolen near White House

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

Honolulu, Hawaii (CNN)A Secret Service agent's gun, badge, radio, handcuffs and flash drive were stolen in broad daylight Monday near the agency's headquarters in Washington, according to a police report and sources briefed on the incident.

The agent's belongings were taken from his personal vehicle while it was parked on G Place in downtown Washington around 4 p.m. ET.

A report filed with the Metropolitan Police Department several hours later describes the agent returning to his car and noticing the back rear window of his car had been "unzipped." The report says the agent noticed "a bag with the listed property was taken out of the vehicle."

The report lists a black Sig Sauer handgun, an APX6000 radio, handcuffs, a USB flash drive, a black Patagonia bag and a Secret Service badge, number 1266, as the stolen items.

The agent, who isn't named in the report but who a source said works in the Presidential Protective Division, saw a person reaching into the vehicle, the report states, "but didn't see him take anything out."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/22/politics/secret-service-gun-badge-stolen-dc/

The incompetence is mind-boggling.

[tblue37]

1. IF it is actually a bug not a feature. nt

[emulatorloo]

2. Whoever stole this is planning a mass shooting in the White House.

I hope to hell the WH is on lockdown.

[DFW]

5. If it was in DC

Whoever did it is most likely contemplating sticking up a liquor store.

[emulatorloo]

8. "downtown Washington around 4 p.m. ET."

[DFW]

9. That counts

Also--rush hour during the shortest days of the year.

I was in DC 10 days ago. At 3:30 PM, it already started getting dark.

[KamaAina]

3. Why on Earth is the story datelined Honolulu?!

[demmiblue]

7. That is probably where it was written/filed, is my guess.

[KamaAina]

10. To my knowledge, CNN does not have a bureau there.

And I lived there for several years.

I suppose someone could be on a busman's holiday.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Maybe because everyone who's anyone in the White House press corps is in Hawaii...

covering Obama's Hawaii holiday vacation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Because the reporter assinged to the beat is in hololulu

and if you ask me, should be datelined WASHINGTON

[DFW]

4. And one of them whined about being named Placido Flamingo

This just goes beyond all limits of the imaginable. If there's an excuse for this, the guy should be writing novels and be on the NYT bestseller list for fiction.

In 1995, my dad was requested to give a code name for the SS agent assigned to protect Clinton from frontal assault when my dad was next to him giving a speech. My dad said he had no idea what kind of code name to give a Secret Service Agent. They said, well he had to make up one. So, my dad named the agent "Placido Flamingo." The agent grimaced, but he didn't groan too loudly.

[MADem]

6. Who leaves their CREDENTIALS in their vehicle, EVER? WHO?

A buffoon who needs firing, I'd say.

Maybe it's time to redesign the Treasury badges, anyway. Draw a line under this fucked - up crew. They've been awful since the mid-Porgie days, and the fact is, most of these morons were hired by Curious George's crew.

[demmiblue]

11. Not only that, the vehicle was breached by unzipping the damn window!

[MADem]

15. It's incredible, isn't it? nt

[LiberalArkie]

13. Most people I know that have to have a lot of crap for a job do gun, radio, ear phones etc.

[peacebird]

14. So this "trained professional" left his gun and badge in a ragtop vehicle with zip windows???

The stupidity.... Mind boggling...

[Iggo]

16. Dipshit turns on that radio and he's toast.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Oh boy,this has

serious implications. The Radio undoubtedly has a locked channel,holy crap,someone needs to has his or her ass burned for this. Just think of what will come if these things are copied.

[Omaha Steve]

19. WTF

[JI7]

20. the Secret SErvice needs to go back to where they were

weren't they under treasury before bush moved them under "homeland security" ?

[lpbk2713]

21. Aren't they "always" on duty?

Why would he leave his shit in his car when he goes out in public?

[catnhatnh]

22. Well...

I googled and it turns out there are 1/2 dozen bars on G street. My bet is on The Laughing Man sports tavern..."This popular happy-hour hub has 2 levels with full bars on each & multiple flat-screens TVs."

[lpbk2713]

23. Sounds reasonable.

...

[ecstatic]

24. Sounds like a lying rat. Who leaves a gun,

credentials that allow access to the white house, and a secret service radio in a car with a zipper window? Normal people with nothing to lose wouldn't be that stupid, so I refuse to believe a professional secret service agent would. Fire him, revoke his cards, access, etc.