The Secret Secret Service
There are two other interesting milestones in Cheatle’s career. While she was in charge of Vice President Biden’s protective detail, there was an odd report from witnesses at his Delaware and DC residences:
FTA: <<US NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2014)
Vice President Joe Biden's swimming habits make female Secret Service agents uncomfortable, according to a new book.
Vice President Joe Biden enjoys swimming without a bathing suit, a new book claims.
Biden, who’s flirting with a run for president in 2016, gives Secret Service agents an eyeful both at his Delaware home and at the vice president’s official residence in Washington, D.C., according to “The First Family Detail” by Ronald Kessler.
The book relies on named and unnamed sources to describe
life guarding prominent politicians including Biden, former President Ronald Reagan, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.
“Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler writes in the book – due for release Aug. 5.
“Female Secret Service agents find that offensive,” he writes.
“Biden likes to be revered as everyday Joe," an unnamed agent told Kessler. "But the reality is no agents want to go on his detail because Biden makes agents’ lives so tough.”
In addition to the alleged skinny-dipping, agents are reportedly irritated by frequent last-minute trips to Delaware.
A Biden spokeswoman would not address the claims on the record. A spokesperson for the Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.>>
Obviously, the use of the plural indicates that Biden’s protective detail included multiple female Secret Service agents as far back as 2014, and notably there’s no report that their disgruntlement at the Veep’s boorish behavior was accommodated in any way. If the mission is manning up the woman component of the service, there’s no room for sexual harassment complaints.
Subsequently, it seems evident that Cheatle’s administration of his protective detail convinced Biden to promote her to the position of Director. He even gave her a Presidential Award for her meritorious contributions.
We are also entitled to ask how the earnest effort to expand the ranks of women in the Service has been working out. The first two versions of the following story I read omitted the name and gender of the agent who became a subject of controversy and discipline. When the full story came out it expressed some deep concerns about new agents were getting hired in spite of spotty prior employment records. That story appeared under the headline “Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI Vetting Scrutiny” in the Highland County Press. Read the whole text at the link.
FTA: <<An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring and whether an ongoing push to increase the numbers of women in the service and boost overall workforce staff played a role in her selection.
The Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris was removed from her duties Wednesday after physically attacking the commanding agent in charge and other agents trying to subdue her, according to an agency spokesman and knowledgeable Secret Service sources.
Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herczeg. The altercation occurred at approximately 9 a.m. at Joint Base Andrews, the home base for Air Force One and Air Force Two, the call signs of the Boeing aircraft used by the president and vice president. Harris was at the U.S. Naval Observatory at the time of the incident, and it did not delay her travel, said agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Herczeg showed up at the terminal and began acting erratically, grabbing another senior agent’s personal phone and deleting applications on it, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The other agent, a shift leader, was able to recover his phone and then acted as if nothing had happened.
But Herczeg’s bizarre behavior didn’t stop. She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,” a source told RealClearPolitics.
Herczeg also screamed at the special agent in charge (SAIC), rattling off the names of female officers on the vice president’s detail and claiming they would show up and help her and allow her to continue working. At that point, other agents on the scene believed Herczeg was suffering from a mental lapse, and the superior officer, SAIC, approached her to tell her she was relieved from the assignment.
“That’s when she snapped entirely,” one source recounted.
Herczeg then chest-bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled him and punched him. The agents involved in restraining Herczeg were especially concerned because she still had her gun in the holster. They wrestled her to the ground, took the gun from her, cuffed her, and then removed her from the terminal.>>
Now we’re to this point:
The Trump Secret Service detail we saw in action yesterday had at least four female “body” men, one of whom who was too short and another who appeared to be fumbling with her sidearm as the agents were getting Trump under cover. (And who’s the fat guy?)
Worse, there are serious questions about how a first-rate Secret Service detail managed to miss the fact of a rooftop shooter with a clear line to the President’s head in a rally hosting tens of thousands of people.
A witness, one of many, who called vainly for action
from men in uniform with no response in time.
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