Inspector slams Secret Service for diverting agents to staffer afraid of neighbor
The Secret Service showed a “serious lapse in judgement” by pulling agents from a White House detail to protect an agency staffer who was involved in a dispute with a neighbor, according to a government review.
The assignment was based on the premise that “you look after your people,” investigators found. But Homeland Security Inspector General John Roth said there was no legal or procedural justification for the deployment, which was first reported in a Washington Post article in May.
“These agents, who were there to protect the president and the White House, were improperly diverted for an impermissible purpose,” Roth said in an Oct. 17 memo to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. The report was made public Wednesday.
The inappropriate assignment, known as Operation Moonlight, was intended to protect Lisa Chopey, an assistant to then-Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan. The staffer had experienced a falling-out with a neighbor whose boyfriend allegedly chased after her truck with an all-terrain vehicle.
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