Everyone Is Upset Because A Couple Of Drunk Secret Service Officers May Have Crashed Into A White House Barrier

Two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of President Barack Obama’s protective detail, crashed a car into a White House barricade following a late-night party for retiring spokesman Ed Donovan and it’s suspected they had been drinking, sources confirmed to CNN. The officers were allowed to go home after a supervisor on duty overruled on-duty law enforcement who wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests, a U.S. law enforcement official confirmed to CNN. 

“The officers for the Secret Service who monitor the safety of the White House complex and ultimately the president and his family felt that these two individuals may have been intoxicated,” Washington Post reporter Carol D. Leonnig, who broke the story, said in an interview broadcast on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.

The two employees have been reassigned to non-supervisory, non-operational assignments, a Secret Service official said. 

A senior administration official says the White House, including President Barack Obama, is “aware of the alleged incident.” “At the request of Secret Service Director Joe Clancy, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General is conducting an investigation into the allegations. We’re not going to comment further on this while that investigation is ongoing,” the official said.

“The President is aware of the allegations and supports Director Clancy’s decision to turn the investigation over to the DHS Inspector General for a thorough review,” another senior administration official said. The Secret Service gave a top Republican lawmaker a heads up earlier today before The Washington Post reported that two agents crashed a government car into White House security barriers last week after attending a party.

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Now I know what I’m about to say may seem a little over the top but I’m going to say it anyway. Secret Service members should be above the law. I feel like this has happened a few times in the past year. Secret Service guys getting hookers, or getting drunk, or crashing their car. So? They protect the President. They are willing to jump in front of a bullet at any given point. That in my mind justifies a few road sodas and a minor fender bender. Maybe this is a slippery slope, and if you let one guy be above the law open the door for everyone but this is honestly how I feel. As long as no one dies and no felonies are committed, I’m cool. Same goes for Navy Seals. Those guys get to be above the law. It’s like in Armageddon when they negotiate to never pay taxes again. Certain jobs should get certain perks and this is one of them.

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Also anyone who gets this upset over the Secret Service has way too much time on their hands. I watch House of Cards, I know how this works. You have to wake up in the middle of the night because the First Lady is “stressed” and wants to go for a jog outside, then you should get to drink on the job. Fair is fair.

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