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Congress Launches Investigation of Secret Service Agent Diversion from White House
The Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 | Carol Leonig

Posted on 05/21/2014 6:44:34 PM PDT by kristinn

Congress’s chief oversight committee has launched a formal investigation into how and why Secret Service agents were ordered to leave their assignments protecting the White House complex to instead protect a close friend of the agency’s director.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked Secret Service Director Julia Pierson by letter Tuesday to turn over all documents detailing how and why agents were pulled from providing extra protection for President Obama and his family in summer 2011 to go to La Plata, Md., as part of a new assignment called “Operation Moonlight.”

The Washington Post first revealed the existence of the operation, in which agents were pulled from a special unit monitoring the White House perimeter to instead check on the home of the administrative assistant of then-Director Mark Sullivan. Agents were told Sullivan had directed that they be diverted to her home out of concern that his secretary was being harassed by a neighbor, but several agents were concerned that the operation was illegal.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: secretservice; usss

1 posted on 05/21/2014 6:44:34 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

You watch - the MSM will make this bigger than the Benghazi and VA scandals put together


2 posted on 05/21/2014 6:48:07 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: kristinn

When Obama hears abot this...Great Caesar’s Ghost! He’s going to be angry!


3 posted on 05/21/2014 6:49:21 PM PDT by stevem
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To: kristinn

Read the last comment. WHAT? Seems to have been written by a random word generator


4 posted on 05/21/2014 6:54:11 PM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.)
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To: kristinn

Well what the so-called “king” orders he gets. This is the most corrupt administration ever.


5 posted on 05/21/2014 6:55:07 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: kristinn
Soon there will be so many investigations into Obama scandals and corruption that Congress won't be able to do its job. Wait, you mean they haven't been doing their constitutionally authorized job? Silly me.
6 posted on 05/21/2014 7:06:43 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: stevem
When Obama hears abot this...Great Caesar’s Ghost! He’s going to be angry!

No doubt he will, but only after he reads about it in the paper.

7 posted on 05/21/2014 7:46:23 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: kristinn

Despite the obvious malfeasance, no Obama officials will receive so much as a slap on the wrist.


8 posted on 05/21/2014 7:53:34 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: kristinn

Obama won’t hear about this until the MSM asks about it...

Oh....then....never?


9 posted on 05/21/2014 8:07:20 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Mark17

Was this in the comics section? If it wasn’t then Obama never saw it.


10 posted on 05/22/2014 5:58:33 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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