A Secret Service agent has now been accused of sexually assaulting a staffer for the Kamala Harris campaign while in Green Bay after a night of drinking at a restaurant. The incident occurred within the last week.
The Secret Service has acknowledged the incident and said they are investigating.
Here’s more from Real Clear Politics:
A Secret Service agent has been accused of sexually assaulting a staffer who works for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to four sources in the Secret Service community.
The incident in question took place sometime over the last week during a trip devoted to providing advance security work and planning for a Harris campaign event in Wisconsin that ultimately did not take place. Several Harris staffers and Secret Service agents were in Green Bay to provide advance security and other planning for an upcoming Harris campaign event. The Harris campaign opted to go to Atlanta instead of Wisconsin on Friday, Sept. 20.
The special agent in question and several Harris staffers were dining and drinking alcohol at a local restaurant after wrapping up work for the day. The group went back to the Harris staffer’s hotel room when the Secret Service agent in question allegedly forced himself on the woman staffer, groping her in the process – actions that were apparently witnessed by other people present.
One source in the Secret Service community said the accused agent was so inebriated that he was kicked out of his hotel room by co-workers and passed out in the hallway, where photos were taken of him.
After learning of the incident, top Secret Service officials summoned the accused agent to agency headquarters in D.C. and ordered him to meet Monday with investigators in the Inspections Division, the department that handles investigations into disciplinary matters.
“The U.S. Secret Service Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating a misconduct allegation involving an employee,” a Secret Service spokesman said in a statement to RCP. “The Secret Service holds its personnel to the highest standards. The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.”
A Harris spokesperson provided a statement to RCP but did not respond to a number of detailed questions about the incident and Harris’ staff’s handling of it.
“The Office of the Vice President takes the safety of staff seriously,” the spokesperson said. “We have zero tolerance for sexual misconduct. Senior OVP officials were alerted by the USSS about an incident involving an agent and informed that USSS initiated an investigation. The Office of the Vice President will not be releasing further information.”
Whether the agent’s actions constitute sexual assault is a determination for a court of law. At the minimum, however, the agent almost certainly violated internal agency rules aimed at cracking down on alcohol-fueled misconduct.
At the very least, the Secret Service agent likely broke a prohibition on drinking alcohol within 10 hours of reporting for duty. (The Secret Service also prohibits the consumption of any alcohol at the hotel in which a president or other top protectee is staying once the president or the protectee has arrived. In this case, it was a planning trip without Harris present, so that rule does not apply.)
The sexual assault allegation is the latest misconduct complaint against the agency. It also comes at a time of intense scrutiny of the Secret Service, when Congress and the public are questioning whether the agency has what it takes to protect former President Trump, President Joe Biden, Vice President Harris, and other protectees after two assassination attempts against Trump in nearly two months.
Good grief. If it ain’t one thing for the Secret Service, it’s another.
Months ago we reported that a Secret Service agent on the detail for Kamala had to be restrained after getting into a fight with their superior. Now we learn that an agent got so drunk last week that he groped and sexually assaulted a Kamala staffer.
And if you want to go back nearly a decade, there was a prostitution scandal in 2012 while in Columbia.
The US Secret Service continually deals with one embarrassment after another. Excluding the last mentioned 2012 incident, one has to wonder how much of this has to do with the DEI hiring of the now-former head of the agency.
