Alarmed by an incident in April that involved a member of Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s security detail, the House Oversight Committee will be briefed next week on hiring and training issues that could be impacting the Secret Service.<\/p>\n
According to the Washington Examiner<\/a>, an armed agent who was part of the protective detail for Harris scuffled with other agents at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, D.C. on April 22.<\/p>\n House Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer<\/a> of Kentucky sent the Secret Service a letter in May asking to learn more about concerns regarding the incident and the broader issue of training, according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIn response to the letter received from Chairman James Comer, the U.S. Secret Service will comply with the House Oversight Committee\u2019s request for a briefing on the topics outlined in the publicly available letter dated May 30, 2024,\u201d a Secret Service representative said.<\/p>\n Comer summed up the incident that led to lawmakers\u2019 concern in a letter<\/a> to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle,<\/p>\n \u201cIt was recently reported that a Secret Service agent, tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris, physically attacked her superior (and the commanding agent in charge) and other agents trying to subdue her while on duty at Joint Base Andrews and assigned to the Vice President\u2019s protective detail,\u201d Comer wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cA Secret Service spokesperson confirmed that the agent had been \u2018removed from their assignment\u2019 following the attack and that the agent \u2018began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing\u2019 and further described the incident as a \u2018medical matter,\u2019\u201d Comer wrote.<\/p>\n Comer said \u201cmore harrowing details of the incident\u201d reported in the media claimed \u201cthat the agent chest-bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled and punched him while still having her gun in her holster, which concerned her colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n Comer noted that lawmakers are concerned that the incident may be indicative of other problems in the agency\u2019s hiring and screening process<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis incident raised concerns within the agency about the hiring and screening process for this agent: specifically whether previous incidents in her work history were overlooked during the hiring process as years of staff shortages had led the agency to lower once stricter standards as part of a diversity, equity and inclusion effort,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Comer referenced a \u00a0Bloomberg report claiming \u201cthat there is a petition circulating inside the agency that flags concerns about \u2018a number of recent Secret Service incidents indicative of inadequate training,\u2019 a double standard in disciplinary actions, and a vulnerability \u2018to potential insider threats\u2019 that could pose a risk to U.S. national security.\u201d<\/p>\n Real Clear Politics<\/a> has identified the agent in question as Michelle Herczeg, citing sources it did not name.<\/p>\n Its report said that the agent in question<\/a> arrived at Joint Base Andrews, grabbed a senior agent\u2019s personal phone and began to delete applications on it. The senior agent later retrieved the phone.<\/p>\n The report said a source told the outlet that the agent \u201cbegan mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were \u2018going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,\u2019\u201d a source told RealClearPolitics.<\/p>\n As the incident escalated, the agent tackled her supervisor and punched him. Other agents then intervened, restrained the agent, and took away her gun, the report said.<\/p>\n Real Clear Politics noted that in 2016, while she was an officer with the Dallas police, Herczeg filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the department that was later dismissed.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Secret Service to Give Briefing to Congress After \u2018Harrowing\u2019 Incident Within Kamala Harris\u2019 Detail<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alarmed by an incident in April that involved a member of Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s security detail, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n