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Suspended Secret Service Agent Who Said She Wouldn't Take A Bullet From Trump Removed From Top Post
Townhall.com ^ | March 20, 2017 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 03/20/2017 6:14:57 AM PDT by Kaslin

Kerry O'Grady was the Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Secret Service’s Denver district office. It’s a prominent position, given that she works with the D.C-based advance teams for all presidential visits into the area. Well, she, like many other anti-Trump folks in the country, just couldn’t keep her mouth shut about the 45th president’s upset win over Hillary Clinton. She took to social media, writing on Facebook that she would rather go to jail than take a bullet for Trump. This was posted during the 2016 season. She also voiced her support for Clinton. All of this is barred under the Hatch Act regarding political activity concerning federal employees. Susan Crabtree of The Washington Examiner has been reporting of this story extensively.

The fallout was swift. O’Grady was removed from a retired Secret Service member association—The Association of Former Agents U.S. Secret Service—and she was placed on paid administrative leave.

Crabtree now reports that O’Grady won’t be coming back to her former position, but sources told her that they’re worried she could be transferred to some other federal agency.

The Secret Service will permanently remove a top special agent from her position after an investigation into her Facebook comments that she would rather not defend President Trump or take "a bullet" from him, but some agents are concerned she will simply be transferred to another government job.

About two weeks ago, the Secret Service placed the agent's prior post — the special agent in charge of the Denver District, the top job in that office — on a list of agency openings, according to two Secret Service sources.

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Current and former Secret Service agents and officers are worried that top officials at the agency are working to shield O'Grady from being fired.

They are worried that she will be transferred to another division of the Homeland Security Department and allowed to serve out her time until she can retire with a pension as the agency has done with other officials in the public crosshairs.

O’Grady did deleted the controversial posts, but we all know that the Internet is forever. She said that her opinions of the president wouldn’t have impacted her ability to execute her duties. Apparently, not everyone felt that way.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: fired; first100days; hag; kerryogrady; presidenttrump; usss
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1 posted on 03/20/2017 6:14:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I wish I could get paid administrative leave . . . .


2 posted on 03/20/2017 6:16:36 AM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: Kaslin
you break it..you pay for it.
Time for her to pull up her big girl panties
3 posted on 03/20/2017 6:17:30 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Kaslin

She wasn’t willing to do her job. She’s a danger to anyone she should be protecting. In sane times, this would have been an immediate firing. She’d be flipping burgers or greeting people at your local big box store.


4 posted on 03/20/2017 6:17:56 AM PDT by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: mykroar

for us it’s called unemployment.


5 posted on 03/20/2017 6:17:57 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Kaslin

What exactly does one have to do to get fired from government service in this country?


6 posted on 03/20/2017 6:18:47 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Kaslin

Looks like a tough (female dog).


7 posted on 03/20/2017 6:18:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: Kaslin

She should be fired.

Then audited by the IRS.


8 posted on 03/20/2017 6:20:18 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: pgkdan
What exactly does one have to do to get fired from government service in this country?

Just tell your boss you voted for Trump.

9 posted on 03/20/2017 6:21:27 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Kaslin

The second last sentence says: “O’Grady DID deleted the controversial posts”. Grammar is hard I guess, even for the Secret Service.

More importantly, I’m glad this agent outed herself as a danger to the President. She needs close scrutiny for the remainder of her stay in the agency.


10 posted on 03/20/2017 6:23:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: UCANSEE2
Just tell your boss you voted for Trump.

OK. Point taken, that would probably work.

11 posted on 03/20/2017 6:23:14 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Kaslin

The only satisfactory response would be a major demotion and significant pay cut.


12 posted on 03/20/2017 6:26:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: lee martell

“The second last sentence says: “O’Grady DID deleted the controversial posts”. Grammar is hard I guess, even for the Secret Service.”

Can’t blame that one on the Secret Service. That seems to be the fault of the article’s author.


13 posted on 03/20/2017 6:30:05 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: TigerClaws

“She should be fired.”

You can thank JFK that she won’t be fired. Virtually all the problems with any of the alphabet organization’s trace their problems back to JFK’s 1962 executive order 10988 which authorizes government employees to unionize. To really deal with government corruption, inefficiency, bloated organizariins, etc, this ex order will have to be rescinded. But, holy hell would bust loose should this ever happen. Not even Trump has the stones to do it.


14 posted on 03/20/2017 6:42:42 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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But, holy hell would bust loose should this ever happen. Not even Trump has the stones to do it.

Probably, but we shall see.

15 posted on 03/20/2017 6:48:17 AM PDT by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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To: UCANSEE2
Do you think I could get in trouble for not renting to an Obama supporter? Not only is this new tenant a lover of Obama and hater of Trump, but he also hates Christians, and Jesus Christ, had a real satanic poster of Jesus with black eyes, first thing up in the apartment.

Could I kick him out for hating Trump? I know I cannot discriminate on religion, but politics? no law in that!!

16 posted on 03/20/2017 6:51:45 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: Kaslin

Untrustworthy
Should be FIRED....
LOSE ALL SECURITY CLEARANCES
And no fed job....ever


17 posted on 03/20/2017 6:53:28 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: zzwhale

If not fired transfer to Somalia to look for counterfeiters.


18 posted on 03/20/2017 7:04:53 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff in town.)
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To: zzwhale

If not fired transfer to Somalia to look for counterfeiters.


19 posted on 03/20/2017 7:04:53 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff in town.)
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To: Kaslin

Transfer her to an outpost in Alaska (sorry Alaskan Freepers). And a cut in pay would be in order as she will have nowhere to spend the money anyway.


20 posted on 03/20/2017 7:04:57 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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