Secret Service agents sent home from Netherlands were warned to avoid trouble

[TheNutcracker]

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Source: Washington Post

Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam this week were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking, according to three people familiar with the incident. One of the agents was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway, the people said.

The hotel staff alerted the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands after finding the unconscious agent Sunday morning, a day before Obama arrived in the country, according to two of the people. The embassy then alerted Secret Service managers on the presidential trip, which included the agency’s director, Julia Pierson.

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed Tuesday evening that the agency “did send three employees home for disciplinary reasons” and that they were put on administrative leave pending an investigation. Donovan declined to comment further.

The alleged incident took place in Noordwijk at the Huis Ter Duin Hotel, where the president stayed Monday night, a White House official said Wednesday morning. This is a resort town in the Netherlands about 15 minutes outside The Hague.

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[TheNutcracker]

1. My my, no integrity nor pride in what they are doing

[Autumn]

2. They need to be fired or at the very least demoted from the secret service detail.

Now.

[TheNutcracker]

6. Fired, not demoted. No example there, they still keep all the federal job goodies.

Let them go home to find another job...and explain to their families.


F I R E T H E M!

I would not want them demoted to protect anyone else, in any manner. I wouldn't want them to watch my house!

[BlueJazz]

3. Oh Boy..at first I thought this was an old post. I remember something like this not long ago.

[davepc]

4. How the hell do these guys function after getting passed out drunk?

Last time I drank enough to get more then tipsy (and nowhere near blackout) I could barley move the next day from the hangover, much less go to work.

[TheNutcracker]

5. They don't! Those on the inside are sooo full of themselves. I'm sure good guys want to work.

Fire them at once!

[brewens]

14. No way I can drink very much on a work night. I'm a commercial driver. I can't really pass

out from alcohol, I'll puke first. That, I haven't done for decades now. If I got what is maximum drunk for me, I'd fail the sobriety test even the next morning probably. It's only .4% if you get tested while driving a commercial rig. I'd also be pretty worthless at the non-driving part of my job.

Those guys should be done. If you ask for that kind of work, you have to play it straight.

[TheNutcracker]

7. These are taxpayer funded jobs. Fire them!

[NBachers]

8. If you have this job you have to be on point at all times. There's too much shit going on right now.

Too much compromised security. This is not acceptable!

[LiberalFighter]

9. This is not late breaking. It happened and was reported in March.

[Duckhunter935]

10. should be taken down

correct very old news

[freshwest]

11. Is the Post recycling this story? It happened in March, not September. Just sayin'

[cstanleytech]

13. No, looks like the OP just isnt paying attention to dates as the Post has

the date clearly visible on their site.

[rocktivity]

12. This happened back in March

The agency's director is female and an Obama appointee? Good thing Congress is out of session!


rocktivity

[petronius]

15. Locking: this article appears to be from March 2014, and thus does

not fit under the LBN SoP:

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