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June 19, 2012

FOX: Secret Service carouses on the Vineyard

If you're not feeling cynical enough today, read this: EXCLUSIVE: Secret Service agents partied like rock stars on Obamas' Vineyard Vacation

Trashed rental homes, bad behavior and barroom brawls that have required the local police to step in have some disgusted Martha’s Vineyard homeowners vowing never to rent out to the Secret Service again. And while none of the disturbing behavior appeared to have any direct effect on the president’s safety, some occurred even as the president and his family were nearby. [. . .]

The owner of a six-bedroom home rented out the last two summers to the same Secret Service team that got in trouble in South America showed FoxNews.com a bullet he said was left behind by the agents and said CAT agents let neighborhood children and other residents handle their weapons.

More alarmingly, he said the men told him details of presidential security plans and logistics.

“They left ammo behind, they told me things they shouldn’t have been telling me, things they shouldn’t be telling anyone about the details about how they protect the president. They let us hold their weapons, see all their stuff, they had huge house parties,” said the man, who spoke to FoxNews.com with his wife on the condition they not be named. [. . .]

A woman who was close to one of the agents and spent time with a group of them last summer said she was concerned about the national security implications of them bringing home women -- many of whom were foreign nationals -- nearly every night. She said the agents she spent time with did not bring their weapons out at night to the bars and parties, but that detailed information about the protection plans for the president was on all of their cellphones -- as were the phone numbers, locations and contact phone numbers for everyone on the detail.
See the story for more frat-boy-worthy details. Pathetic if true.

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1 comment:

  1. This actually pathetic.

    So much of the Secret Service's effectiveness is based on their reputation for almost single-minded devotion to security. Anything that detracts from that is inviting danger for our President(s). Pray that no nutjob with an axe to grind is reading about these incidents and decides this is his time to make the history books.

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