Posted on 10/01/2015 4:30:28 AM PDT by markomalley
It’s only taken — what — five or six years for the Secret Service to go from one of America’s most trusted and respected security institution to a collection of politicized bureaucratic hacks. Nice work, Obama administration:
An assistant director of the Secret Service urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of the service should be made public, according to a government watchdog report released Wednesday. “Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out,” Assistant Director Edward Lowery wrote in an e-mail to a fellow director on March 31, commenting on an internal file that was being widely circulated inside the service. “Just to be fair.”
Two days later, a news Web site reported that Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, had applied to be a Secret Service agent in 2003 and been rejected. That information was part of a Chaffetz personnel file stored in a restricted Secret Service database and required by law to be kept private.
The Chaffetz file, contained in the restricted database, had been peeked at by about 45 Secret Service agents, some of whom shared it with their colleagues in March and April, the report found. This prying began after a contentious March 24 House hearing at which Chaffetz scolded the director and the agency for its series of security gaffes and misconduct. The hearing sparked anger inside the agency. The inspector general’s inquiry found that the Chaffetz information was spread to nearly every layer of the service.
This is the true face of the modern Left: corrupt, authoritarian and brutal. It doesn’t care what the law says, doesn’t give a fig for basic human decency. Satanically, it only cares about one thing: revenge on its political and cultural enemies, and it doesn’t much care how it does it. So who among us really believes this:
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who had apologized to Chaffetz when the report initially surfaced, personally apologized again to the congressman Wednesday, Chaffetz told The Associated Press in an interview on Capitol Hill. Johnson did not disclose whether any employees had been punished.
He said in a statement Wednesday that “those responsible should be held accountable” but did not provide further details. ”Activities like those described in the report must not, and will not, be tolerated,” Johnson said.
Yeah, right. If past is any prologue, no one will be held accountable, no one will be fired and behavior like this will continue to be tolerated as long as it helps the administration.
Almost sounded like they were talking about Hitlary.
Read the comments to today’s Washington Post article on this subject. The leftists could care less about the breach of ethics since they hate Chaffetz for giving the Planned Parenthood CEO a hard time.
At one time in this nation there were commonly held standards for ethics and people believed those violating laws and ethical rules should be punished no matter their race, creed, color, social status, or political affiliation. In today’s world we seem to adopt a standard that what was once considered unacceptable behavior is admirable if it is engaged in on behalf of the right cause.
A society and culture cannot survive if every behavior is politicized and there are no moral or ethical absolutes.
Can you just imagine if a Republican Pres.........awww, never mind.....
Aren’t the Assistant Directors of the Secret Service “political” appointees?
when you go to a file fight, take a gun
Those guys are nothing more than government cops.
I recall how Obama got those divorce records unsealed. Same old, same old.
They’re like mafia goons running a protection and blackmail racket.
There still are commonly held standards in America, but not among the anti-America left - which is represented by the current administration.
This imbecile put that in writing in an email?
Astonishing stupidity
And he’s high ranking to boot.
This is how the obama admin gets republicans to do whatever they want them to do.
Has Obama turned them into his own version of the Nazi SS?
“This imbecile put that in writing in an email?”
I found the stupidity displayed by people who are supposed to be our best and brightest to be simply amazing - for example, looking up his info WHILE THE HEARING WAS ONGOING. Didn’t they think that the queries into the database were recorded (login id, time, subject) and audited?
If this is the best that we have, then we are in much more trouble than even I thought.
Between you, me and everyone here. I don’t think we have the best and brightest, either elected, appointed or hired working in our government. The best and brightest are too busy inventing and improving things in the civilian sector.
More and more and more we are descending into 3rd world, banana republic style corruption.
Fish rots from the head down. Kenya, meet Indonesia.
The president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That's going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it's never been done before.
Hot.
So far have not seen anything to actually blackmail him with. Lots of people aply for jobs with the Secret Service. Most get rejected and that is a good thing. I suspect Chaffetz has applied for many other jobs also and he did not get them all. So Where’s the Beef here.
““Got BQA from the Service in 2003.” Within the Secret Service, “BQA” is an acronym meaning that a “better qualified applicant” was available.”
This is the best info I have found. Does not make him a bad person.
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