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The two Secret Service agents who were drinking on the night they drove into a crime scene investigation near the White House almost ran over a “suspicious package,” sources told Fox News on Thursday.

The details of the March 4 incident come as officials seek to downplay what’s been the latest embarrassing episode for the troubled agency.

Police were examining the package around 10 p.m. when the two senior agents – one of whom is a top member of President Obama’s protective detail – arrived at a guard shack checkpoint that had been vacated due to its proximity to the package, which turned out to be a book covered in a shirt.

But when the agents – identified as Mark Connolly, the second-in-command on Obama’s detail, and George Ogilvie, a senior supervisor in the Washington field office – realized the guard shack was unoccupied, the government car backed up a few feet and “nudged” an orange, four-foot-tall traffic barrel that had been placed in the roadway, sources said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/13/secret-service-agents-may-h
ave-driven-over-suspicious-package-in-white-house/

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Seriously, wtf is going on here ?

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“These embarrassing incidents have a profoundly negative effect on the reputation and motivation of thousands of hard-working Secret Service members who have committed their careers to protecting the president,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a statement Thursday. “A few bad apples are forcing the Secret Service to account for itself in the media and distracting it from a mission in which it must not fail. This is not acceptable.”

“The bottom line is the Secret Service has to get overhauled,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said. “What happened the other day shows the overhaul has long a way to go.”

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