U.S. Secret Service combed files of lawmaker probing agency

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:32pm EDT

U.S. Secret Service combed files of lawmaker probing agency

WASHINGTON

Dozens of U.S. Secret Service employees earlier this year combed the files of a House lawmaker who had been critical of security lapses at the agency and disclosed some of his personal information that was then published in the media, a government report said on Wednesday.

Some 45 Secret Service employees accessed the personal information of Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee who was leading a probe of the agency, said the report by the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General.

Soon after Chaffetz held a hearing on the Secret Service in March, media reports appeared that Chaffetz had been rejected for a Secret Service job in 2003. The initial publication was on April 2 in the online publication the Daily Beast.

The Secret Service's assistant director, Edward Lowery, urged in a March 31 internal email that information about Chaffetz be made public, the inspector general's report said. It said the agency's director, Joseph Clancy, was unaware of the behavior of those digging into Chaffetz' files until shortly before the media published reports about it.

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[kelly1mm]

1. Edward Lowery should be dissmissed ASAP. Does not matter the party/person

he wanted to leak info about. totally beyond the pale.