VP was in car accident; Secret Service first called it 'mechanical failure'

[iemanja]

Source: Washington Post

A motorcade taking Vice President Harris to work was in a one-car accident on a closed roadway in D.C. Monday morning, an incident that concerned both the Secret Service director and the vice president and revived worries about the agency’s history of concealing its mistakes, according to two people familiar with the incident.

The Secret Service agent driving Harris in a sport utility vehicle struck the curb of a downtown tunnel hard enough that the vehicle’s tire needed to be replaced, bringing the motorcade to a standstill near Foggy Bottom at about 10:20 a.m., said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal discussions.

Harris had to be transferred to another vehicle in the motorcade so agents could safely spirit her to the White House. The routine nature of the travel and the high level of training required for agents who drive the president and vice president led many in the Secret Service, as well as Harris, to question how such an accident could happen.

The Secret Service also failed to note key details of the incident in an electronic message formally alerting senior leadership to the motorcade’s delay. The agency’s protective intelligence division reported that “a mechanical failure” in the lead car had forced agents to transfer Harris to another vehicle during a scheduled movement to the White House, according to details of the alert shared with The Washington Post.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/05/harris-motorcade-accident-secret-service/

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Boy, sloppy driving

The Secret Service really needs to up their training and clean out TFG's supporters.

The Secret Service is supposed to be protect against many risks not create risks.

[90-percent]

18. and the Supreme Court

and the Supreme Court is supposed to defend our Constitutional Rights, not take them away. For the first time in the history of our nation, no less.

Sorry to be cynical, but I think this election will flip the USA from a Democracy to a Dictatorship. Oh the price we will all pay for "conservatives"* owning the libs.

-90% Jimmy

*Conservatives? There is nothing conservative about these modern conservatives. Anarchists is a more correct label for them these days.


and a few more synonyms, if i haven't made myself clear

terrorist
insurgent
insurrectionist
malcontent
mutineer
nihilist
rebel
revolter

[PlutosHeart]

28. They really need to do a clean sweep

and remove as many T people as possible including DeJoyless.

[Doremus]

2. They need to clean up that agency, from the top down. nt

[Sky Jewels]

26. Yep. Purge it!

Totally clean house and start over.

[BadGimp]

3. My Spidey Sense is tingling...

I'm also suspicious.

[iemanja]

4. The SS obviously lied.

[Marthe48]

5. Right by a tunnel, hmmmm

Maybe there was a plan that didn't come off. I hope not, but it is easy for me to jump to conclusions.

Stay safe Madame V.P.

[Demanchor]

6. Or maybe it was practice

[orleans]

35. that is along the line of some of the comments to the article on wapo

The secret service helped the attack on our government. How do you know this wasn’t a test run for coup part II?


IMO, it seems that too many Secret Service agents are "deep state" Trump supporters. If I were Biden / Harris I don't know if I'd trust those agents for my protection.


Somebody check the Secret Service’s text messages on this.


Time to revise the vetting process.


I suppose the G-men don't want to look weak or incompetent. This incident about Harris ride is much ado about nothing except for the white lies. The serious misrepresentation and lies should have been dealt harshly including firing.

i think the driver & anyone else lying/covering this shit up should be fired! the article on wapo mentioned a couple other times in obama era when ss really covered shit up.

[riversedge]

7. It would be good to tell us the Harris was not injured in the first four paragraphs!! I do not

subscribe to WP and cannot read the remaining article but I assume she is ok since they did say she was transferred to another vehicle.

[sakabatou]

9. Might help

https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-car-accident/

[GentryDixon]

16. Free WAPO article.

https://wapo.st/3fMmyol

[BumRushDaShow]

10. The site I usually use

to get the no paywalls has been overloaded the past week or so but Wayback Machine has it here (although a bit messy with the ads all around it) -

https://web.archive.org/web/20221005213415/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/05/harris-motorcade-accident-secret-service/

(I have a couple ad blockers blocking most of it so there are just bank boxes but you can try it anyway)

[riversedge]

44. Thank you so much. Much appreciated.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

25. Thought the exact same thing.

[truthisfreedom]

11. There must be a video record

of what happened.

[liberalla]

12. I hope they did a sobriety test.

[twodogsbarking]

13. All in favor of calling it a "mechanical failure" say aye.

[soldierant]

40. The part which failed being the nut behind the wheel?

[LudwigPastorius]

14. !

[Hestia]

15. Is it really *that* egregious to not broadcast over airwaves that the VP's vehicle is inoperable?

Especially when someone posted to tiktok that the USSS had blocked the tunnel until the rim/wheel/tire was changed? Do we really want to notify the public as something happens, allowing every yahoo to run down there and cause some bigger problem over a traffic incident?

Supervisors/superiors were notified at the time of the incident; updates were posted afterwards on vehicle, VP's medical discharge -- all is well in the kingdom...

[iemanja]

21. Mechanical failure also signals inoperable

It’s also a lie.

[Samrob]

17. THIS is suspicious, to say the least. Warrants swift and intense investigation.

I'm sorry. Yes, i do not put anything past the MAGA-Trumpians. Biden needs to have his security thoroughly re-vetted.

Harris would be the first step. I just don't like this!!! Get real folks! The next two decisions by the SCOTUS will tell you how worried we should be.

Follow me before you trash this thought. We are just weeks out from the election. Everyone says the GOP is almost certain to win the House. Now, tell me the line of succession IF we have neither a VP or President. I'm done!

[calimary]

19. In a tunnel. Gee, perfect for an ambush.

[Marthe48]

33. Glad I'm not the only one

who thought thoughts about tunnels :/

[calimary]

42. That's where Princess Diana died.

Racing into a Paris tunnel, being chased by paparazzi.

Shit, the more I think about it, the worrieder I get. There's so much that can go wrong in a tunnel, especially if radical cons have evil in mind. And escape routes are not exactly what you'd call plentiful inside a tunnel.

[Marthe48]

43. I remember hearing initial reports about Diana

and following the story.

I thought the President and others could choose the people who comprise their body guard. I sure would. And vet the hell out of them.

[shelshaw]

20. Video: Scene of the accident

This is from the guy that tracked Trump in DC a couple of weeks ago

https://m.

[COL Mustard]

22. SOMEBODY's getting reassigned

To Alaska, or Fresno, or whatever shithole office the Secret Service has.

Not good. Not good at all.

[Generic Brad]

23. The timing is suspicious

It happened on the same day Putin saying he had a hit list of anti-Russia leaders he could easily have killed and her name was on his hit list.

[onecaliberal]

24. They all need to be fired and replaced. ALL OF THEM.

[former9thward]

30. That can't be done in federal civil service.

They are career employees.

[onecaliberal]

31. Trump got a lot of people in there. Those people and anyone associated ten ways from Kevin Bacon

Should be re-assigned to Siberia

[Mysterian]

47. Of course it can be done

Federal civil service employees can be fired. Why do you post a falsehood?

[former9thward]

48. The poster I was replying to said they wanted them ALL fired.

No, that can't be done. Why would you post a falsehood?

[Mysterian]

52. If a group of federal civil service employees commit malfeasance,

all of them can be fired. You implied federal civil service employees cannot be fired and you know it. You still haven't explained why you posted a falsehood.

[former9thward]

55. The poster I replied to and you are defending said they ALL should be fired.

That is what I replied to. That can't be done. You still haven't explained why you posted a falsehood.

[Mysterian]

58. An entire group can be fired if they all commited malfeasance.

This is a fact and to state otherwise is a falsehood.

[Sky Jewels]

27. I used to think the SS was the best of the best.

Boy, was I wrong.

[electric_blue68]

29. 🙄 whaaa..... 😑

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accident?

Maaaaybe, most likely. Still...



for incompetence or worse!

They need aserious relooking at NOW!
Tossed out on their ears if there's any pro drumphf stuff!!!

[Marthe48]

32. I'm not glued to the t.v.

or the radio, but I haven't heard any coverage of this.

[tonekat]

34. I used to drive that tunnel every day for years

It's not wide, it demands your attention and the ability to sort out which lanes at the other end go left and straight.

My ex's niece married a uniformed SS guy who worked during the Obama Admin, and he said none of those guys gave a damn about Obama's security. Nice.

[former9thward]

49. "None of those guys gave a damn about Obama's security"

Why don't you tell the media about this? Since you have the name of a specific person they would jump on the story...

[niyad]

36. Hyperbolic, I know, but Princess Diana sprang immediately to mind.

I have hit a curb in my little car, I have been with friends who hit curbs in their gaz-guzzling cars. NONE of us has ever blown a tire. And none of us have that supposed level of driver training.

Story stinks.

[soldierant]

41. I did - once - many years ago (sometime in the 90's it must have been.)

But I agree it's not routine. Every other time I've had any tire damage from a curb it was a slow leak. I have astigmatism, and while my glasses correct it, they really can't completely eliminate it.

[former9thward]

50. So because you and your friends have hit a curb and did not blow a tire it stinks.

Did you hit it with the angle and speed the Harris car did? And much more important did your car(s) weigh as much as the VP car which has all sorts of protective, medical and communication equipment in and on it that your cars don't have? A heavy car will blow a tire much easier than a lighter car.

[niyad]

37. And I was thinking about bill maher's ugly comments about VPOTUS that I

just read this morning.

[Joinfortmill]

38. This is troubling

[LiberalFighter]

39. Driver needs to be demoted.

[FakeNoose]

45. They blew a tire, it's stupid carelessness but there's no conspiracy here

Everyone is fine, VP Harris was never in danger. Nothing to see here.

[iemanja]

46. The problem is that the Secret Service lied

They blew the tire only after running into a curb. That's not a mechanical failure. Though I don't buy the idea it was an assassination plot. If they wanted to kill the VP, they could have gotten a lot closer to doing so.

[FSogol]

51. Did they breathalyze the driver?

[Action_Patrol]

53. Joking?

Why would they give a breathalyzer for a tire?

[FSogol]

56. How many secret service agents have been removed from duty for being drunk in the last 10 years?

That we know about? I'm sure there are more that just squeaked by.

Here's a book rec for you: Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol D. Leonnig

[Action_Patrol]

57. I've read it.

Since when does a minor accident with no injuries spark a breathalyzer?

[Action_Patrol]

54. So much hyperbole over this

Sometimes an accident is a accident. An armored truck weighs 5 tons and doesn’t handle like a normal vehicle.

This doesn’t seem like much of a story.