Inspector: 'Serious lapse' at Secret Service
Source: AP-EXCITE
By ERICA WERNER
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government investigation Wednesday criticized a bizarre Secret Service assignment that pulled agents from their duty near the White House and sent them to the rural Maryland home of a headquarters employee embroiled in a personal dispute with a neighbor.
The conduct amounted to a "serious lapse in judgment," the inspector general of the Homeland Security Department, John Roth, said in a statement accompanying an investigative memo he released. "These agents, who were there to protect the president and the White House, were improperly diverted for an impermissible purpose."
"The Secret Service's mission is to protect the president of the United States, and not to involve itself in an employee's purely private dispute best handled by the local police," Roth said.
Although agency officials insisted President Barack Obama's safety was not compromised, the report notes Obama was at the White House on at least two days that the agents were "a 50-minute drive (without traffic) from the White House" checking on the headquarters employee. It found no legal justification for using Secret Service agents for such a purpose.
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blame him if he does and a CCW. Too many hateful people inside and outside government that hate, hate, hate black people and especially this POTUS......