Ok So first the Secret Service was disciplined for whoring it up at a Colombian Brothel
Now they’re being sent to the naughty-chair for getting crunk on assignment.
Three Secret Service agents on President Obama’s detail were sent home from Holland after reportedly spending a night out drinking in Amsterdam ahead of the president’s arrival Monday.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told Fox News that the agents had been sent home “for disciplinary reasons” and had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
The Washington Post reported that the three agents, all members of the Secret Service Agency’s Counter Assault Team (CAT), went out in the Dutch capital Saturday night. Staff at their hotel alerted the U.S. Embassy after finding one of the agents passed out in a hallway Sunday morning.
According to regulations recently adopted by the Secret Service, agents on official trips are prohibited from drinking alcohol 10 or fewer hours before being on duty.
Seriously? COME ON! Ok look, I’m no fan of our President and I’ll be happy when he drifts into post-presidential retirement in 2016, and I feel overall he beclowns our nation. Still he IS the President of the United States and he was duly elected TWICE. The man deserves respect from both the people and his protection detail. Plus no matter what the reason for this total lack of discipline from what should be considered one of the most illustrious and exclusive branch of US Law Enforcement/ Public Service (They protect the people who were chosen to represent us in our government, so in effect they are protecting all of us) the Secret Service should also have its own bit of honor.
I can see a group of hand-picked people who I’m sure all have impressive resumes getting a LOT more leeway then your average employee or even Law Enforcement Officer, but you’d think once the group of jokers in Columbia were found out, the scandal of that would suddenly become a major concern for the management-level agents.
Of course the director of the Secret Service is one of many Obama Appointees, it makes you wonder about his selection process. Behavior like this shows bad management, and like any work force that falls into disarray I’m sure this incident didn’t come without warning signs. Workers tend to push boundaries before they blatantly cross them. Managers that are lax on this behavior often find them self crushed by a massive snowball in the end.
I agree that “passed out in a hallway” would be considered unprofessional in any profession, and is certainly unacceptable in an SS agent’s folder, but…
The man deserves respect from both the people and his protection detail.
No he doesn’t since he shows no sign of respecting the charter he supposedly defends, and
They protect the people who were chosen to represent us in our government, so in effect they are protecting all of us
Oh HELL no, Weer’d. If anything in effect they are oppressing all of us.
I envy you your bright, shiny view of ‘public servants,’ while not agreeing that it corresponds in any way to reality.
Meh, its not that my view is so Rosey, its just not quite as grim.
First up, People get the government they deserve, it sucks what happening in Connecticut right now, but its not like this happened overnight.
Same thing with the President. Essentially what I’m saying is that we’re not at a point of shooting them yet, and since WE as a nation aren’t shooting them, people from OTHER nations, nor odd factions get to shoot them.
And yeah, even an asshole like BHO got legally elected by both electoral college, and majority vote in this country TWICE. He may be a prick, but that DOES command some respect.
A fish starts to rot at the head.