The incident is the latest in a series of embarrassing episodes for the Secret Service, which have raised questions about the agency’s leadership and ability to protect the president.
In September, a man with a knife climbed over the White House fence, sprinted to the mansion’s front door and made it to the East Room. The incident led to the resignation of the agency’s director, Julia Pierson. Six months before, several agents were implicated in tales of heavy drinking, one of which took place ahead of a presidential visit to the Netherlands and the other after a late-night traffic accident in Miami.
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In the spring of 2012, some agents and U.S. military personnel who were preparing for a presidential trip to Cartagena, Colombia, for the Summit of the Americas hired local prostitutes and brought them back to their hotel rooms.
A total of 13 of Secret Service officials were implicated. Three employees returned to duty, six either resigned or retired and four had their clearances revoked and were removed, according to an inspector general report.
Clancy is scheduled to appear before the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. The routine meeting is intended to discuss fiscal matters, but a senior congressional source told Fox News on Thursday that the director would be questioned about the barricades incident.“He is in for a hell of a grilling,” the source said.
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