Secret Service employees leaked private info in attempt to embarrass Jason Chaffetz

I guess the Secret Service felt it needed to do more to make itself just like a high school. It's not enough that agents like to get drunk while on assignment and pick up prostitutes. Now, if anyone investigates their misdeeds, they're going to get back at the narc by spreading stories about him. Oh, by the way, these are the people who protect the life of the president. That should make you feel warm and cuddly inside. So when Congressman Jason Chaffetz drove an investigation into the misdeeds and failings of the Secret Service, you can bet they weren't going to take it lying down. Turns out Chaffetz actually applied for a job as a Secret Service agent back in 2003 and was turned down. Hey! Juicy info on Mr. Goody Two-Shoes! Spread it around the school!

In March, Secret Service employees originally accessed Chaffetz's 2003 application for a Secret Service job 18 minutes after the start of a congressional hearing on the latest scandal involving drunken behavior by senior agents, according to the report. Some forwarded the information to others, while at least 45 employees viewed the file, the report said. One week after accessing the information, Assistant Director Ed Lowery then suggested leaking embarrassing information about Chaffetz in retaliation for aggressive investigations by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into a series of agency missteps and scandals, the report said. On April 2, the information about Chaffetz applying for a job at the Secret Service was then published by The Daily Beast and the Washington Post. "Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out. Just to be fair," Lowery wrote March 31 in an email to fellow Assistant Director Faron Paramore.

I suppose in this Secret-Service-as-high-school scenario, the Post and the Daily Beast are the student newspapers controlled by those jerks in the in crowd - dutifully publishing the story about the loser that everyone in the school hates. Good to know some things never change. I'm not sure why Lowery and his other ticked-off colleagues think it's so embarrassing to Chaffetz that he applied for a job and didn't get it. Have you ever applied for a job and not been hired? If you have any type of career whatsoever, of course you have. So have I. So has everyone. In no way does that mean Chaffetz's work on this investigation is tainted or less than 100 percent credible. They didn't hire him as an agent. Fine. Now he's a member of Congress and it's his job to investigate wrongdoing within the executive branch. Maybe someone needs to explain this slowly to Assistant Director Lowery: Applying for a job and being turned down is not doing anything wrong. Getting drunk and picking up hookers when you're supposed to be protecting the president is. So is letting some knucklehead run through the front door of the White House with a knife. If this is how the Secret Service operates, the president might want to seriously consider not going anywhere until the agency can clean house and get some people in there who actually take their jobs seriously. Then again, apparently he's not even safe in the White House. But as long as they can "embarrass" Jason Chaffetz by letting everyone know he once sought a job and didn't get it, I guess they showed him! There's no way that dork will ever be popular now. Dan just served as editor of a fantastic book by Katherine Jeffries about a secret vigilante organization. It's called Stranglehold and you can download it here. Dan's Royal Oak Series of spiritual thrillers is available here. Follow all of Dan's work by liking his page on Facebook.

Dan Calabrese——Bio and Archives

Dan Calabrese’s column is distributed by HermanCain.com, which can be found at HermanCain

Follow all of Dan’s work, including his series of Christian spiritual warfare novels, by liking his page on Facebook.