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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClemons, MSNBC: Secret Service mgr level staff fired last night, escorted out of EEOB, not told why
This is coming in via tweets from MSNBC's Steve Clemons, posted last night before he boarded a plane.
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Reports coming in that some Secret Service mgr level personnel forced 2 resign 2nite & escorted out of EEOB. Two out but source says more
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Repeat. Two (& perhaps more) @SecretService Mgr level staff abtuptly forced to resign tonight & escorted out of EEOB #trump #whitehouse
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Not clear 2 @SecretService staff why they were abruptly forced 2 resign 2nite. individually terminated, escorted out #secretservice 1/3
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The dismissed @SecretService staff now learning others also let go as they connect after the dismissals. Not sure total number fired 2/3
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One of fired @SecretService Mgrs speculates #Trump is restructuring the service but this is speculation #secretservice 3/3
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It's now 1:45amET Friday in DC & this @SecretService story unfolding now. Ive posted all I know. I am heading to DC imminently from Tokyo
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To media colleagues I have posted what I know on @SecretService firings. I called @WhiteHouse & @SecretService but no response yet 1/2
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But Im getting on flight now frm Tokyo2DC. Land 3:20pm. Plz feel free to call @SecretService Comms directly & plz send me what u learn 2/2
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Last note on @SecretService firings 2nite b4 boarding flight. I've posted all I've been told. 2, and perhaps more Secret Service mgrs 1/2
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Have been abruptly forced to resign. Not sure reason. Escorted out of EEOB. No response yet from WH or SecSvc. I'm boarding Flight now 2/2
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Clemons, MSNBC: Secret Service mgr level staff fired last night, escorted out of EEOB, not told why (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Feb 2017
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Putting Black Water goons in? This shouldn't be allowed, if true. Democrats need to make noise
KittyWampus
Feb 2017
#1
Agree. I still haven't been able to find any reliable MSM coverage of this.
highplainsdem
Feb 2017
#3
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)1. Putting Black Water goons in? This shouldn't be allowed, if true. Democrats need to make noise
about this.
highplainsdem
(48,961 posts)3. Agree. I still haven't been able to find any reliable MSM coverage of this.
So far just some speculation from a RW propaganda site guessing that this is Trump punishing the SS for not doing more, sooner, about the SS agent who said she wouldn't take a bullet for DT. That RW site had no source for its speculation.
madokie
(51,076 posts)2. Sounds like a drunken pResident bannon
is on a tear
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)5. Night of the Long Knives?
mopinko
(70,074 posts)6. yeah, my first thought was- and so it begins?
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)7. Yup. Trump is starting to consolidate his power by
eliminating those in government who oppose him. The script is being played as written.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)8. Reichstag up next. I predict it will conveniently be "perpetrated" by a "refugee". n/t
tibbiit
(1,601 posts)9. Are they looking for the leakers?
Maybe rogue@whitehouse is secret service?
tib
(and all the other things too! Reichstag, leaker, blackwater, drunken bannon = all true at the same time)
highplainsdem
(48,961 posts)10. Clemons just corrected story. Cybersecurity chief was fired. Link: