Here is what the Sec. Service leaking info on Rep. Jason Chaffetz is all about:

[dixiegrrrrl]

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 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,

Secret Service has been an agency of screw ups for a long time, the Director, Clancy, has been trying to clean it up, and he hired Assistant Director Edward Lowery
in attempt to clean up the agency,
but
turns out that Lowery was the one who oversaw and started the attack on Chaffetz!

Not only was Chaffetz's info openly passed around the agency, Lowery decided some "dirt" needed to be released, so they leaked he had once applied for a
Sec. Ser. position.

Excellent reporting of incident here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/watchdog-top-secret-service-official-wanted-information-about-chaffetz-made-public/2015/09/30/ff280378-67ae-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html

This incident is one of many many showing the Secret Service is out of control and inept.

[Angry Dragon]

1. I believe it got worse when it was put into Homeland Security

[TheDebbieDee]

3. I agree, Angry Dragon.....

Dept of Homeland Security is one of the best funded, over-resourced and over-staffed federal agencies. Congress will not say "NO" to any budget requests made by DHS - I suspect that Congressmen of a certain political persuasion get kick-backs from DHS over-funds.

DHS is also a humongous cluster-phuck!

The agency handles Immigration Services among other things and it's way too big to be properly managed....

[MADem]

2. Is this director an effing moron?

“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.”

What the hell? Since when is releasing personal information from a secure personnel file as part of a vendetta "fair?" This Republican congressman isn't tasked with protecting POTUS -- had he been accepted to the secret service, that would have been his job, though...! How dumb--the congressman can take this info and flip it, especially if he's a straight-and-narrow, no drinking type of guy.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Consider the source: How reputable is the WashigtonPost anymore?

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. Try this on for size.

After reviewing the IG report, the oversight panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), said in a statement that he was “deeply troubled” by what Roth’s team uncovered and that staffers who have shown themselves to be “unwilling or unable to meet the highest ethical standards” should leave the ­agency.

“Chairman Chaffetz and I have worked together to help restore the Secret Service to its standing as the most elite protective agency in the world,” Cummings said. “Today’s findings by the Inspector General go directly against this goal and are completely and utterly unacceptable and indefensible.”

I don't care if it's Jason Chaffetz, Trey Gowdy, or freaking George W. Bush. The Secret Service is supposed to be bound by laws. Every American should take pause at actions like this and consider how powerless they are as individuals in the face of government employees who hold themselves above those laws. This sickens me. Too bad you think the messenger makes the message invalid. Rep. Cummings obviously understands the gravity of such shenanigans.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. First off, you don't know WHAT I think. But DU is not

immune to repeating wild rumors as facts during the character assassination season, other-wise known as election season.

Second, there are few repukes more deserving than Chaffetz of having his secrets dragged out of his closet for all to see.

Third, I 'm sure these high staffers at the SS learned these underhanded tactics from the previous republican administration who may have used similar info to keep Democrats under heel....

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. Moral relativism. I love it. You don't like Chaffetz; that's understandable. I don't either.

But I won't defend anyone involved in releasing or accessing records that are, by law, restricted. In fact, I'd like to see as many prosecutions come out of this as possible.

Again, I don't care WHOSE records they are.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Some of these horrible repukes NEED to be embarrassed

by having their secrets made public!

These jokers threaten the healthcare of poor woman across the country by spouting lie after lie...let's hear some truth about these SOBs. This is what scares them - the truth!

[cherokeeprogressive]

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