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🚨🚨#BREAKING and EXCLUSIVE: What is the Secret Service doing about DEI in the new Trump meritocracy era? A @SecretService Uniformed Division officer allegedly fell asleep on the job -- in full public view -- while providing security at the United Nations General Assembly last Thursday, multiple law enforcement sources told @RCPolitics. The same officer, an overweight African American man, also has been accused of leaving his semi-automatic rifle (what appears to be a SR16) unattended while taking a bathroom break from his security duties, according to these sources. New York Police Department officers witnessed and took photos of what they considered the officer’s unprofessional behavior — what they described as sleeping on the job and leaving the rifle unattended — and reported it to their superiors at the multi-agency command center, which included representatives from the Secret Service, the NYPD, and other law enforcement agencies. A Secret Service spokesperson told @RCPolitics that the USSS Uniformed Division officer was relieved of his operational duties “immediately after leadership was notified” of the alleged unprofessional behavior, and the officer returned to Washington, D.C. The Secret Service has placed the officer on administrative leave pending a disciplinary review and emphasized its “strict professional standards” and stated that those who violate these standards will face immediate “disciplinary action.” @RCPolitics was unsuccessful in its efforts to reach out to the individual accused of unprofessional conduct while providing security at UNGA. The New York Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. RealClearPolitics was alerted to the Secret Service officer’s alleged unprofessional behavior just hours after @SecofWar Pete Hegseth lectured U.S. military leaders about the need to raise standards and eliminate “woke” DEI priorities in hiring and promotions. There will be no “fat troops” or “fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon,” Hegseth said. Troops will be clean-shaven, and the military will offer few if any exemptions, either for religious or medical needs. There will be only male physical standards for combat jobs, and if that means there are no women in those roles, “it is what it is,” Hegseth said. Hegseth’s stricter standards for the military is ratcheting up the pressure on other federal agencies to raise their own standards, including the Secret Service. Even before the Butler assassination attempt against President Trump, the Secret Service was facing Congressional scrutiny over its DEI hiring and vetting policies during the Biden administration. Since Butler, one Secret Service agent, Rashid Ellis, has come forward publicly to blame last year’s agency failures during Butler on the Secret Service’s DEI priorities; many other agents and officers have made the same allegations to me anonymously. It’s unclear what actions Secret Service Director Sean Curran has taken to address the DEI concerns beyond placing a number of Secret Service officials who worked on USSS DEI programs during the Biden years on administrative leave earlier this year in compliance with Trump’s anti-DEI directive. The Secret Service has not responded to repeated questions from @RCPolitics on this topic. Full @SecretService statement to @RCPolitics: “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of a Sept. 25 incident where a Uniformed Division officer working security near the United Nations General Assembly in New York City reportedly engaged in unprofessional behavior, including leaving a firearm unattended for a brief time in a secure zone before returning to the weapon. The officer was relieved of their operational duties immediately after leadership was notified that afternoon, returned to Washington, D.C. and subsequently placed on administrative leave pending a disciplinary review. The Secret Service has strict professional standards that all employees are expected to meet, and individuals who are found to have violated these standards will face disciplinary action.” MORE PHOTOS BELOW ⬇️⬇️⬇️
@susancrabtree - Susan Crabtree
More photos of the @SecretService Uniformed Division officer accused of unprofessional behavior while providing security last week at the United Nationals General Assembly meeting in NYC. This one shows him sitting down while perusing his cell phone. The other shows the public location/post-standing position in Manhattan where the officer was located.
@susancrabtree - Susan Crabtree
📣📣Turn on notifications. This is the first story/post of several re: the Secret Services' DEI issues I plan to post this week. There are deep-rooted DEI issues left over from the Biden administration that the Secret Service must now decide how to handle. @SecWar Pete Hegseth is setting the example. Will USSS Director Sean Curran follow suit? What has Curran done so far to address these DEI concerns brought forward by at least one active Secret Service agent who went public with his concerns? I'll link to my story about his public comments, below, as well as a petition that has been circulating that raises DEI as one of many reforms Curran needs to make to learn from Butler's mistakes, prevent another assassination attempt on President Trump, and up the agency's game when it comes to securing all protectees.
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@SecretService @SecWar Here's my story on Secret Service special agent Rashid Ellis and his concerns that DEI is directly responsible for the assassination attempt against Trump at Butler: https://t.co/CeSdTGzi7Q
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🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE: EXPOSING DEI IN THE SECRET SERVICE -- Secret Service Agent Rashid Ellis: DEI Contributed to Near-Killing of Trump A Secret Service agent, for the first time, is publicly speaking out against the agency’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which he says contributed to the first assassination attempt against President Trump last summer. A 13-year veteran of the agency who has served in an elite unit and top protective assignments, Ellis sat down for an interview with the Independent Women’s Forum, a Virginia-based conservative nonprofit. The Independent Women's Forum provided RealClearPolitics the first look at the trailer they made for the documentary they are filming on Ellis. READ THE FULL REALCLEARPOLITICS STORY AND WATCH THE TRAILER -- LINKS PROVIDED IN THE NEXT POST.
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@SecretService @SecWar here’s the petition circulating in the Secret Service community: https://www.change.org/p/demand-an-investigation-and-resignation-removal-hereof-kimberly-cheatle-director-of-usss/u/33926903
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@SecretService @SecWar Here’s a poll circulating in the @SecretService re: whether former USSS Director Kim Cheatle should be indicted for perjury to Congress or should be protected by DEI:
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@MM1858503 @SecretService I can’t believe there’s a whole Seinfeld episode on this same issue—actually yes, I can! I haven’t even reported on the worst of the Secret Service offenses.
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@Marcie_C_1996 @SecretService Very good point.
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@0Fucks_0Regrets @joemill37087868 @SecretService This is an outrage.
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🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A Secret Service counter sniper sent an email Monday night to the entire Uniformed Division (not agents) saying he will not stop speaking out until "5 high-level supervisors (1 down) are either fired or removed from their current positions." The counter sniper also said the agency "SHOULD expect another assassination attempt" before November and complained that he is no longer proud to be a USSS counter sniper after leadership failed the officers at the Trump rally in Butler on 7/13. "This agency NEEDS to change," the sniper wrote in the email. "If not now, WHEN? "The NEXT assassination in 30 days?" "Sadly we have fallen short for YEARS," the counter sniper lamented. "We just look good doing it. I have conveyed these thoughts to not only supervisors (to include the current Captain of CS, but those responsible for training us (SOTS/CS). Only to be brushed off as those with less experience somehow knew more than me." "The team I was once proud to be a part of, is something I have to somehow hide as I move into my next career," the counter sniper continued. "Who wants to hire a USSS CS guy who failed? That's the public perception I'm not faced with. The USSS CS team is a stain I will never be able to cleanse." He concluded with these two lines: "The motto of the USSS...CYA. And every supervisor is doing it right now." The agency quickly deleted the email, a knowledgeable source told RealClearPolitics. Full email with name redacted below:
@susancrabtree - Susan Crabtree
Yes, I wrote a series of stories in 2020 and then re-upped them in 2023 (when the Chinese surveillance balloon was traversing the country) about @SenMarkKelly's role in securing Chinese Co. Ten Cent's investment in his balloon surveillance company. I tried to get many Congressional Commitees to look into it, including the @CommitteeonCCP to no avail. I still have all those emails. The @axios story didn't get to the heart of the matter (IMHO bought into his storyline). 🚨The real problem was that, when I first contacted Kelly's balloon company in 2020, a spokeswoman said the U.S. Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) to obtain security and facility clearance.” The DCSA “has concluded that foreign interests do not have any influence, control, or authority over World View,” Smith added. 👉However, when I contacted DCSA directly to verify that it had given World View its seal of approval, the DCSA Office of Communications and Congressional Affairs denied that it had offered a clearance for World View. The agency told me in an email that in January 2020, it had suspended the process to grant World View a clearance for defense work, though it would not disclose the “internal deliberations” or “specific communications” that led to the decision. I'll include a screen shot for you -- attached to this twet. I sent this all around Capitol Hill to try to get any interest in a Congressional Committee pursuing it, and no one would bite. Think it's still incredibly relevant. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2023/02/24/did_us_firms_help_propel_chinas_balloon_fleet_592342.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/09/kelly_helped_secure_chinese_tech_giants_stake_in_firm.html#
