The Secret Service’s list of offenses may have moved from unprofessional shenanigans to just plain blackmail.
This time, the scandal doesn’t involve booze, women or security breaches for the agency. It involves attempts by the Secret Service to send a clear and frightening message to Congress — investigate us at your own risk.
The Secret Service is accused of accessing and leaking to the media an unsuccessful job application for Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, after he began investigating the agency.
Employees of the Secret Service accessed Chaffetz’s 2003 application for a job there starting 18 minutes after the beginning of a congressional hearing in March about the latest scandal involving drunken behavior by senior agents. At least 45 employees viewed the file.
One week later, Assistant Director Ed Lowery suggested leaking embarrassing information about Chaffetz in retaliation for aggressive investigations by Chaffetz’s committee into a series of agency missteps and scandals, a Homeland Security report said. Days later, on April 2, the information about Chaffetz unsuccessfully applying for a job at the Secret Service was published by The Daily Beast.
“Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out. Just to be fair,” Lowery wrote March 31 in an email to fellow Assistant Director Faron Paramore.
During the investigation Chaffetz’s office learned that a photo of him from a committee hearing was posted in at least one Secret Service office. Across the top and bottom of the photo was written: GOT BQA BY THE SERVICE IN 2003 BECAME A CONGRESSMAN IN 2009.
The investigation found that 18 supervisors or members of the agency’s senior executive service knew or should have known that employees had improperly accessed Chaffetz’s job application, but only one person attempted to inform Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy. The inspector general said that under U.S. law and Secret Service rules, employees were required to report such behavior to supervisors.
The actions by the employees could represent criminal violations under the U.S. Privacy Act.
“It’s intimidating,” Chaffetz said. “It’s what it was supposed to be.”
He said in a statement Wednesday that “those responsible should be held accountable.”
President Barack Obama formally appointed Clancy early this year despite recommendations from an independent review panel that the agency needed a leader from the outside.
Defund Secret Service.
That’s the tip of the iceberg. All the police and spy agencies in the federal govt. regularly collect information of embarrassing and criminal behavior by members of the legislative branch and anyone else that might cause them a problem. That’s how they roll.
If anyone stands up to them, they have the goods on enough people to insure their cooperation in squashing the threat. As a result, the whole of Washington has become more of a criminal enterprise than a legitimate govt.
I wonder what they have on john Roberts?
In his book, “Gideon´s Spies The Secret History of the MOSSAD,” Gordon Thomas exposes the murderous MOSSAD and its motto: “By way of deception, thou shalt do war.” Gideon and progeny used the technique for thousands of years before Ben Gurion named the Israeli spy organization, MOSSAD. Blackmailing is a standard tactic of the Israeli MOSSAD, when a victim is not murdered. One surmises that the MOSSAD has taught the USSecret Service how to entrap targeted victims. However, that there are members of congress who have not been entrapped by the beautiful whores of the Israeli MOSSAD raises a question. How many different ways can a congressman be blackmailed?
Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that criminal activity and corruption are the Norm in our government, Now did the CIA director get trained to spy on Americans and his staff after he became a muslim. The corruption is incredible in our White House, and it answers several questions for me, wht and how O-Barry Sotoroe was never Vetted, and several people looked the other way, while the fraud and phony obuma starts tearing apart our country, because so many have accepted Bribes, or they just did not do the job they were chosen to do. WOW Hillary has Felons working for her, the CIA threatens Congress the Radical Islamist have all the key jobs in the White House, obuma is a Joke and his boy Biden has no clue whats going on, Boehner sold his soul to obuma and all the Democrats are involved in some criminal activity as we have witnessed.
Oh and The FBI has decided they are going to protect The Queen clinton, and they to have told Congress to back off. WOW
What more ‘Dirt’ could the FBI expose about obama and michele? Everyone knows that, ‘bama’ is a closet homosexual, and his ‘wife’ michael is a male cross-dresser who likes to pretend that he is a female; and that their kids are adopted. of course there is no record of this: none proffered by bama, anyway.
Bama is one of the antichrists enumerated by Saint John the Divine in the Holy Bible.
Also, everyone now knows that he is a devout muslim with the kkkoran’s instructions to lie, in order to further the spread of this cancer that is presently knocking at our door. He is a socialist, communist, fascist, fraud; hater of everything American. His battle cry of hope and change is even now being uncovered as one of his many, many frauds being perpetrated against the U.S.A. and her people. He is an absolute Skunk of the highest order, wafting his sickening odor onto everything he touches. His tsars, as appointees, are mostly common criminals VERY carefully selected to act upon his word whenever he instructs them to. He is the godfather of Chicago corruption which he has brought with him to DC; obama Corleone. Google it.!!!