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KeepItReal

(7,769 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 11:29 PM Mar 2015

Secret Service agents disrupted bomb investigation at White House

Source: Washington Post

Two Secret Service agents suspected of being under the influence while striking a White House security barricade drove through an active bomb investigation and directly beside the suspicious package, according to current and former government officials familiar with the incident.

...

Clancy placed the two senior agents involved in the incident in new “non-supervisory, non-operational” jobs pending an investigation — a less stringent approach than the service has taken in the past, when staffers suspected of misconduct were put on administrative leave or pressed to resign or accept demotion. Also, Clancy did not take action against a senior supervisor on duty that night who, according to officials briefed on the incident, ordered Secret Service officers to let the agents go home without giving them sobriety tests.

...

About 10:25 that night, a woman hopped out of a blue Toyota near the southeast entrance of the White House on 15th Street NW and, holding a package wrapped in a green shirt, approached an agent.

“I’m holding a [expletive] bomb!” she yelled, according to a government official with knowledge of the incident.

The woman then put the object on the ground and retreated to her car, the official said. The agent ran to the car and opened the front passenger-side door and ordered the woman to get out. But she then put the car in reverse and accelerated, striking the agent with the open door. The agent reached inside the car and forced it into park, said the government official, but the woman was able to shift it back into drive and drive forward, again hitting the agent and forcing him to jump out of the way.

The woman then sped off.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-disrupted-bomb-investigation-at-white-house/2015/03/12/0eb74590-c8c4-11e4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html?postshare=6661426186922760



I don't know what is worse - drunken agents plowing into an active bomb threat investigation, or the fact that a woman was allowed to declare a bomb threat at the White House (!?!?!?) and somehow GET AWAY.

AND IT TOOK TWO DAYS to apprehend the woman.
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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
2. These Praetorians need disbanding, and scattering to the four corners of the empire.....
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:01 AM
Mar 2015
The final act of the Praetorians in imperial history started in 306, when Maxentius, son of the retired emperor Maximian, was passed over as a successor: the troops took matters into their own hands and elevated him to the position of emperor in Italy on October 28. Caesar Flavius Valerius Severus, following the orders of Galerius, attempted to disband the Guard but only managed to lead the rest of them in revolting and joining Maxentius.

When Constantine the Great, launching an invasion of Italy in 312, forced a final confrontation at the Milvian Bridge, the Praetorian cohorts made up most of Maxentius' army; Maxentius was defeated and died on the field. Later in Rome, the victorious Constantine definitively disbanded the remnants of the Praetorian Guard.

The soldiers were sent out to various corners of the Empire, and the Castra Praetoria were dismantled. For over 300 years they had served the Emperors of Rome, and the destruction of their fortress was a grand gesture, inaugurating a new age of imperial history and ending that of the Praetorians. link


- Or, they could all run for office. They've got the drunk idiots with power thing down.....

hopemountain

(3,919 posts)
3. see what we missed with all of the other hysteria headlining the news?
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:35 AM
Mar 2015

information on the woman - whom what where how why...?

rachel covered this story at the top of her show and went into detail. but no info on the woman in the blue toyota. she also had rep. elijah cummings speak on these events and lack of trustworthy security for the president.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
4. Dear Secret Service: Are you trying to get our President and his family killed?
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:45 AM
Mar 2015

This has happened way too many times.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
7. No kidding.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:05 AM
Mar 2015

They need to seriously overhaul the SS. All the stories coming out are crazy. Was this happening under any other president?

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
11. Ah... thank you.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 01:36 AM
Mar 2015

Was there a pattern?

I don't remember hearing about so many incidents before, with GWB and Clinton for example. Were there other incidents under JFK?

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
12. Abraham Bolden can tell us. Put him on the witness stand.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 02:00 AM
Mar 2015

Former U.S. Secret Service Agent Abraham BOLDEN was the first African American Secret Service agent to serve in the White House, personally appointed and literally hand-picked by President John F. Kennedy to the White House detail. Agent Abraham Bolden reported overt racism by his fellow agents and outright hostility toward the "n------loving president," quoting fellow Secret Service agents on the JFK detail.

In addition to enduring all manner of personal indignities, he was concerned at the lack of professionalism in those assigned to protect the president and reported his concerns. He was told, "OK. Thanks" by his superiors. When the problems weren't addressed, Bolden requested transfer back to the Secret Service office in Chicago.



Abraham Bolden speaks at JFK Lancer.



The story of a man who told the truth:



After 45 Years, a Civil Rights Hero Waits for Justice

Thom Hartmann
June 12, 2009 11:52 AM

A great miscarriage of justice has kept most Americas from learning about a Civil Rights pioneer who worked with President John F. Kennedy. But there is finally a way for citizens to not only right that wrong, but bring closure to the most tragic chapter of American presidential history.

After an outstanding career in law enforcement, Abraham Bolden was appointed by JFK to be the first African American presidential Secret Service agent, where he served with distinction. He was part of the Secret Service effort that prevented JFK's assassination in Chicago, three weeks before Dallas. But Bolden was framed by the Mafia and arrested on the very day he went to Washington to tell the Warren Commission staff about the Chicago attempt against JFK.

Bolden was sentenced to six years in prison, despite glaring problems with his prosecution. His arrest resulted from accusations by two criminals Bolden had sent to prison. In Bolden's first trial, an apparently biased judge told the jury that Bolden was guilty, even before they began their deliberations. Though granted a new trial because of that, the same problematic judge was assigned to oversee Bolden's second trial, which resulted in his conviction. Later, the main witness against Bolden admitted committing perjury against him. A key member of the prosecution even took the fifth when asked about the perjury. Yet Bolden's appeals were denied, and he had to serve hard time in prison, and today is considered a convicted felon.

After the release of four million pages of JFK assassination files in the 1990s, it became clear that Bolden -- and the official secrecy surrounding the Chicago attempt against JFK -- were due to National Security concerns about Cuba, that were unknown to Bolden, the press, Congress, and the public not just in 1963, but for the next four decades.

SNIP...

Abraham Bolden paid a heavy price for trying to tell the truth about events involving the man he was sworn to protect -- JFK -- that became mired in National Security concerns. Bolden still lives in Chicago, and has never given up trying to clear his name.

Will Abraham Bolden live to finally see the justice so long denied to him?

CONTINUED...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/after-45-years-a-civil-ri_b_213834.html



After the assassination, he went to Washington on his own dime and reported what he saw to the Warren Commission. For his trouble -- and despite an exemplary record as a Brinks detective, Illinois State Trooper, and Secret Service agent -- Bolden was framed by the government using a paid informant's admitted perjury and spent a long time in prison. The government also drugged him and put him into psychiatric hospitals.His real crime was telling the truth.

Americans know the Truth: the country hasn't been the same since Nov. 22, 1963. President Kennedy kept the nation out of Vietnam and started toward the moon. Imagine what the New Frontier could have become for us today? Certainly would not be a time where "money trumps peace."
 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
6. "AND IT TOOK TWO DAYS to apprehend the woman."
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:04 AM
Mar 2015

Kinda blows the whole tin foil hat theory that the government knows everything about everyone,....doesn't it.

(If it did, there would be no bank robbers at large either.)

red dog 1

(27,648 posts)
9. Two Secret Service agents walk out of a bar,
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 03:38 PM
Mar 2015

get into their Secret Service patrol car, strike a Secret Service barricade, and drive through an active bomb investigation?

You can't make this shit up!

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
13. Supervisory Agent should be under arrest.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 02:07 AM
Mar 2015

Covering-up drunks is one thing. Putting that first over an active bomb threat investigation they compromised is another.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
14. So they shoot an unarmed teenager for jaywalking, but not a woman trying to bomb the WH?
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 09:44 AM
Mar 2015

The world has come off its hinges - has anyone else noticed?

joshcryer

(62,265 posts)
15. If you want to measure the respect Obama has received...
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 09:46 AM
Mar 2015

...during his tenure, one need only look at the Secret Service, which has basically gone to shit.

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