Tag Archives: Secret Service

4 Critically Injured In Lightning Strike Near White House

Washington DC’s Fox affiliate reports: Four people were struck by lightning Thursday evening, and are currently in the hospital with critical life-threatening injuries, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. Members of the U.S. Park Police and the Secret Service were the first to witness the lightning strike at Lafayette Park on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Upon arriving …

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Secret Service Examines Phones For Texting Metadata

CNN reports: Secret Service investigators were scrutinizing the phones of 10 Secret Service personnel that contained metadata showing text messages were sent and received around January 6, 2021, but were not retained, two sources told CNN. The scrutiny came after the Department of Homeland Security inspector general asked for the text records last year of 24 individuals at the Secret …

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DC Cop Confirms Account Of Motorcade Altercation

The Hill reports: A Washington, D.C., police officer corroborated previous testimony Thursday that former President Trump got into a “heated discussion” about going to the Capitol with his supporters after his speech on Jan. 6, 2021. The Jan. 6 panel presented clips of testimony from Sgt. Mark Robinson (Ret.) of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, who was assigned to Trump’s …

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Pence’s Security Detail Called Families To Say Goodbye

USA Today reports: When rioters breached the Capitol building, filling its hallways with rioters and chants to hang former Vice President Mike Pence, the Secret Service detail began “to fear for their own lives.” During the January 6 Committee’s eighth public hearing, the committee played a recorded interview with a White House security official who had access to Secret Service …

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Criminal Probe Opened Into Secret Service’s Texts

CNBC reports: The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of Secret Service phone text messages related to the days around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The Secret Service was informed of the probe Wednesday night by the office of the Inspector General of …

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Secret Service Turns Over Single Text Message To DHS

CNN reports: The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month’s worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, and obtained by CNN. The revelation provides insight into the concern raised in a recent …

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Secret Service Claims It Can’t Recover Deleted Texts

CNN reports: The US Secret Service produced an “initial set of documents” to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday, in response to a subpoena last week that was issued amid reports of potentially missing text messages from the day of the insurrection. “Our delivery included thousands of pages of documents, Secret Service cell phone …

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Lofgren: We’ll Have Secret Service Texts By Tuesday

Axios reports: The Jan. 6 committee expects to receive the Secret Service’s deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 by Tuesday, panel member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said Sunday. The committee subpoenaed the Secret Service for information on Friday after an agency watchdog notified the Senate and House Homeland Security committees that text messages from Jan. 5 and …

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Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Secret Service Over Texts

The Guardian reports: The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has issued a subpoena to the US Secret Service for text messages from 5 January and 6 January 2021 understood to have been erased, pursuing what investigators suspect might be an instance of corruptly destroyed records. The subpoena issued late on Friday – the first to an executive branch …

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Secret Service Erased Text Messages Sought By Officials

CNN reports: The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency’s response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection and obtained by CNN. The letter, which was originally sent to the House and Senate …

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Secret Service Knew Of “Steering Wheel” Incident

CNN reports: Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn’t get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred. The sources tell CNN that stories …

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Secret Service To Dispute “Steering Wheel” Claims

CBS News reports: The U.S. Secret Service will have more to say to the Jan. 6 House select committee after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony Tuesday regarding former President Trump’s actions related to Jan. 6, 2021. A source close to the Secret Service confirmed to CBS News that special agent Robert Engel and the driver are prepared to …

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Feds Warn Of Rise In Terrorism Threats By Incels

Salon reports: A new Secret Service report highlights a concerning rise in terrorism threats posed by men who called themselves “involuntary celibate,” often refered to as “incels.” The 26-page report, released on Tuesday by the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC), documents a sharp uptick in incel-fueled attacks against women over the past decade. “The term ‘incel’ is often …

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BOOK: Pence Aides Feared Secret Service Would “Fly Him To Alaska” To Stop Him From Certifying Election

Yet another excerpt from I Alone Can Fix It: At 2:26, after a team of agents scouted a safe path to ensure the Pences would not encounter trouble, Giebels and the rest of Pence’s detail guided them down a staircase to a secure subterranean area that rioters couldn’t reach, where the vice president’s armored limousine awaited. Giebels asked Pence to …

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Docs Show 881 Secret Service Members Got COVID

From the government watchdog group CREW: Nearly 900 Secret Service employees tested positive for COVID-19 between March 1, 2020 and March 9, 2021, according to government records obtained by CREW. The vast majority served in protection jobs, either as Special Agents or in the Uniformed Division. The records obtained by CREW show that in the first year of the pandemic, …

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Trump Still Charging Secret Service For FL Workspace

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump’s own protective detail used while guarding him at his Mar-a-Lago Club, according to federal spending records. The records show that Trump’s club charged the Secret Service $396.15 every night starting Jan. 20, the day he left the White House …

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BOOK: Junior’s Wife “Dated” Her Secret Service Agent

The Guardian reports: Two Trump family members got “inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close” to agents protecting them while Donald Trump was president, according to a new book on the US Secret Service. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, by the Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, is published next week. In her new book, she …

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DHS IG Blocked Probe Into Lafayette Square Debacle

The Washington Post reports: The chief federal watchdog for the Secret Service blocked investigations proposed by career staff last year to scrutinize the agency’s handling of the George Floyd protests in Lafayette Square and the spread of the coronavirus in its ranks, according to documents and people with knowledge of his decisions. Both matters involved decisions by then-President Donald Trump …

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Man Wanted By Texas Police Apprehended By Secret Service Near VP Residence, Long Gun And Ammo In Car

CNBC reports:  A Texas man wanted by the police was stopped by the U.S. Secret Service and arrested Wednesday afternoon near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, authorities said. Police said they found a rifle and ammunition in that man’s car, which was parked some distance away in a garage in downtown Washington. The man, Paul Murray, 31, of …

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Secret Service: Armed Pair Tried To Meet Biden At WH

Washington’s WTOP reports: Two people, armed with weapons and looking to meet President Joe Biden, were arrested outside of the White House this weekend. The arrests occurred around 5:25 p.m. Saturday near Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street Northwest. A U.S. Secret Service spokesperson said the pair walked up to plain-clothed officers near the White House gates. One of the individuals …

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