The US Secret Service is accused of failing to reply to an insider risk on the company – and retaliated in opposition to the whistleblower who reported the risk through the Biden Administration.
Information of the insider risk comes lower than one 12 months after two assassination makes an attempt in opposition to President Trump – one in Butler, Pennsylvania (July 13) – and one other try at his Mar-a-Lago golf course (September 15).
In response to RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree, the Secret Service employed an applicant who failed the terrorism part of the polygraph check.
Failing a polygraph check usually disqualifies a Secret Service applicant – nonetheless, the company has a harmful ‘family and friends’ loophole which permits folks with sure connections to retake the polygraph check greater than as soon as.
The company allowed this ‘insider risk’ to judge others’ safety clearances, in response to a whistleblower.
The whistleblower claims they have been retaliated in opposition to, pressured to resign and now the company is threatening to revoke their safety clearance.
“As an alternative of investigating the person for posing a possible risk to the company and the highest U.S. officers it protects, together with the president and the vice chairman, the agent alleges he was retaliated in opposition to and compelled to resign after serving greater than 20 years within the Secret Service. The agent who reported the insider risk considerations alleges that company officers are persevering with to retaliate in opposition to him by threatening his safety clearance if he doesn’t drop his authorized complaints,” Susan Crabtree reported.
Per RealClearPolitics:
The Secret Service by no means investigated inner reviews of an insider risk to the company and individually allowed an applicant who failed the polygraph terrorism part to be employed and serve ready evaluating safety clearances for fellow brokers, in response to a former agent whistleblower who has reported his complaints to Congress.
The previous senior agent, who served in a supervisory function when he reported the suspected insider risk through the Biden administration, additionally raised considerations in regards to the company’s failure to implement a psychological well being screening check for candidates. (The FBI, the CIA, and quite a few police departments across the nation require mental-health screening assessments for all candidates.)
Regardless that the Secret Service is tasked with defending the president, vice chairman, and different high-level federal authorities officers, it doesn’t have the same psychological well being screening system for its candidates. It’s unclear if the company is planning to implement one after the 2 assassination makes an attempt in opposition to President Trump final 12 months.
EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING: SECRET SERVICE ACCUSED OF FAILING TO RESPOND TO ‘INSIDER-THREAT’ COMPLAINTS
AGENCY HIRED APPLICANT WHO FAILED TERRORISM SECTION OF POLYGRAPH TEST AND NOW ALLOWS HIM TO EVALUATE OTHERS’ SECURITY CLEARANCES, WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES
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— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) March 31, 2025
Issues with Secret Service brokers preventing and excessively consuming have plagued the company for years.
Final 12 months a feminine secret service agent assigned to Kamala Harris got into a physical fight with different brokers at Joint Base Andrews.
In response to reviews, the issue agent, recognized as Michelle Herczeg, started performing aggressively, talking gibberish and shouting incoherently at different brokers whereas they have been close to the lounge at JBA.
Herczeg reportedly threw menstrual pads at one other agent earlier than getting right into a brawl a JBA.
RealClearPolitics beforehand reported that Herczeg grabbed a male agent’s private cellphone and commenced deleting apps on it earlier than she utterly melted down.
Agent Herczeg needed to be bodily restrained and her firearm was taken away from her. She was handcuffed and brought to the hospital in an ambulance.
“Herczeg then chest-bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled him and punched him. The brokers concerned in restraining Herczeg have been particularly involved as a result of she nonetheless had her gun within the holster. They wrestled her to the bottom, took the gun from her, cuffed her, after which eliminated her from the terminal,” RealClearPolitics reported.
