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Watchdog: Top Secret Service official wanted information about Chaffetz made public
The Washington Post ^ | September 30,2015 | By Carol D. Leonnig and Jerry Markon

Posted on 09/30/2015 3:06:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The Secret Service’s assistant director 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 Committee, had applied to be a Secret Service agent in 2003 and been rejected.

That information was part of Chaffetz’s personnel file stored in a restricted Secret Service database and required by law to be kept private.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: chaffetz; jasonchaffetz; retaliation; retribution; secretservice; ss; tyranny

1 posted on 09/30/2015 3:06:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

The Mafia would be proud of the Feds..It’s time to fire about 75%


2 posted on 09/30/2015 3:09:04 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Hang 75%, incarcerate the rest.


3 posted on 09/30/2015 3:11:03 PM PDT by matthew fuller (BHO strategy: anti-American, anti-Western, pro-Islamic, pro-Iranian, and pro-Muslim Brotherhood.)
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To: Hojczyk

Lowery’s toast.


4 posted on 09/30/2015 3:13:28 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Hojczyk

Secret Service used to be a respectable organization. Thanks Obama!


5 posted on 09/30/2015 3:13:35 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Hojczyk

Edward Lowery needs to be FIRED!! If not in front of a FIRING SQUAD!!!uh...just to be fair. THESE files are supposed to be SECRET!


6 posted on 09/30/2015 3:13:57 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Hojczyk

Trump`s Pen And Phone should order the whole EPA to count blades of grass for 8 years.


7 posted on 09/30/2015 3:13:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: PghBaldy
USED TO BE!!! There is NOTHIN in our Government that is respectable anymore!!

I guess they got back at him for his questioning BABY KILLERS!!

8 posted on 09/30/2015 3:15:24 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Hojczyk

So a fraud had the tables turned. Oh my heart bleeds. Yea that’s a real shame. I feel so bad for him after he screwed so many conservatives at the bidding of his masters.


9 posted on 09/30/2015 3:17:28 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Hojczyk
Just for $h*+s and giggles, I filed a FOIA request for my government files some years ago. Yep, I'd applied to the CIA and State Department on three total occasions when I was young and foolish and thought this was our government.

Some very unflattering stuff in my file too and not just related to these three incidents. Almost all of it was innuendo, here-say and guilt by association from sources blacked out.

I'm willing to bet that if I could see the sources, they were almost all libtard nazis who chose to be offended by an opinion I may have expressed. Nothing more than that.

Most of it was based on things I did or said before I was 28 (the year I got married) and may have led a somewhat wilder life than compared to today.

Still, if they had made a movie about my sex life during that era, it would've been rated "G", at worst "PG-13."

10 posted on 09/30/2015 3:30:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Hojczyk
Roth said in his report that it was “especially ironic and troubling” that the Chaffetz information circulated so widely inside the agency and yet Clancy did not know about it. Even Clancy chief of staff Michael Biermann and Deputy Director Craig Magaw had been privy to the information, the report said, but did not alert Clancy.

SS Motto: "Worthy of Trust and Confidence"

or "Wheels up, rings off"

or "What ever?"

11 posted on 09/30/2015 3:37:06 PM PDT by TroutStalker ("Protect the hypersensitive. Ban everything.")
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EVERYONE involved in circulating and reading the CONFIDENTIAL files and documents needs to be TERMINATED. Will they do it? Of course not, they’ll be promoted after “serving” a period of extra paid vacation (aka administrative leave) that doesn’t count against their yearly leave.


12 posted on 09/30/2015 3:37:41 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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To: Vigilanteman

Welcome to the club.

Considering how corrupt this government is, I bet almost all patriots could never pass a government clearance background check, even if they previously held one.


13 posted on 09/30/2015 3:38:30 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Hojczyk

The SS has plenty of dirt to tell about Obama and many of his staff but keep mum. I know - by law.


14 posted on 09/30/2015 3:44:02 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: PghBaldy

It does seem that the Secret Service trashed out immediately after Obama came into office. But “just to be fair”, is this impression accurate, or were institutional seeds of destruction already there?

The mechanics of who, what, when and how destroyed the Secret Service would seem a necessary topic for a serious Congressional investigation, and a real journalist’s dream. Of course, that might not be seen as “fair”...


15 posted on 09/30/2015 3:46:14 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Vigilanteman

My sex life back then would be rated “L for Laughable”.


16 posted on 09/30/2015 3:49:59 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: Hojczyk

Makes one wonder what this administration has on other Congressmen and Senators. It does answer the question if they would use such information or not!


17 posted on 09/30/2015 4:04:08 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Congressmen, Senators and ..........you forgot one, media.


18 posted on 09/30/2015 5:25:43 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Toespi

Indeed, thanks!


19 posted on 09/30/2015 6:03:10 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: PghBaldy
I am finding that most federal agencies, including my own, do a lousy job of picking people to promote. The civil service does not have the necessary system to promote the correct people. My agency amplified this by not allowing supervisors to participate in the duties of their subordinates. The results are that only a small percentage of agents apply for promotion and many of those are extremely poor performers. Another telling statistics is that we have a large number of our first line supervisors asking to revert to a lower pay grade.

How many companies fill their management almost entirely from within, then have very few options to fire them. How many companies fill their CEO, CFO, COO positions (and staff) with people evaluated on their ability to raise political donations.

20 posted on 09/30/2015 6:16:24 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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