Good day all. The United States Secret Service is tasked to protect the President of the United States of America, as well as the Vice President and others as designated. They are trained to literally take a bullet to protect the President.
As an example loo towards former Secret Service Agent Timothy J. McCarthy. When John Hinkley tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, McCarthy literally jumped into the path and took a bullet.
The Secret Service has to put up with a lot from those they protect. Some have nothing but contempt for them, others think they are nothing more than servants. Other presidents have treated those that protect them with kindness and respect. Now, there is an agent who has gone public stating that she “Wouldn’t take a bullet” for President Trump. Here are the details from the Washington Examiner:
A senior U.S. Secret Service agent posted Facebook condemnations of President Trump during the past seven months, including one in which she said she wouldn’t want to “take a bullet” for him. She explained herself saying she viewed his presidential candidacy as a “disaster” for the country, and especially for women and minorities.
Kerry O’Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver district, oversees coordination with Washington-based advance teams for all presidential candidate and presidential trips to the area, including all upcoming or future trips by the president, vice president or Trump administration officials.
Despite her senior security role, she has made her disdain for Trump and his incoming administration clear to her Facebook followers, who included current and former Secret Service agents and other people who were employees at the time of the posts. O’Grady’s posts triggered at least one complaint to the office that oversees investigations into Secret Service misbehavior, two knowledgeable sources told the Washington Examiner.
Now this could all be rumor and innuendo, except fort the fact that Senior Agent O’Grady posted her feelings on Facebook.
In one Facebook post O’Grady wrote at 11:07 p.m. on a Sunday in October, she endorsed Hillary Clinton and said she would endure “jail time” rather than “taking a bullet” for what she regarded as a “disaster” for America.
In the same post, she mentioned the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch staff, except the president, vice president and some other senior executive officials, from engaging in certain political activities.
“As a public servant for nearly 23 years, I struggle not to violate the Hatch Act. So I keep quiet and skirt the median,” she wrote. “To do otherwise can be a criminal offense for those in my position. Despite the fact that I am expected to take a bullet for both sides.
“But this world has changed and I have changed. And I would take jail time over a bullet or an endorsement for what I believe to be disaster to this country and the strong and amazing women and minorities who reside here. Hatch Act be damned. I am with Her.”
From things I’ve read over the years, being assigned to the detail protecting Felonia von Pantsuit is considered a punishment detail. Be that as it may, those comments, usually in a book, were made by former agents, not current agents. Never mind the violations of the Hatch Act, Ms. O’Grady’s statements, in my opinion, render her not only unfit to continue as a member of the Secret Service, but potentially an actual threat to the safety of President Trump.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General, which investigates agency complaints of misbehavior, received a complaint about O’Grady’s Facebook posts on Oct. 11, a source said.
It seems to me that the Department of Homeland Security really has no choice in this matter. Ms. O’Grady, at the very least, must be removed as a Secret Service Agent. When there is a threat against the President, there can be no hesitation. She has announced that she would, unlike Agent McCarthy, step aside and let the bullet hit the president. I don’t know if she should be terminated from government employment, but she can no longer be trusted in her current position.
***UPDATE***
Well now, that didn’t take long. Agent Kelly O’Grady has been suspended with pay according to the Washington Examiner.
The Secret Service has placed the senior special agent who wrote a Facebook post decrying “taking a bullet” for Trump on administrative leave while the agency investigates her social media activities. An agency spokeswoman on Friday afternoon informed the Washington Examiner of the management action, which takes the agent off the job with pay while the investigation proceeds.
Some people may argue that O’Grady is still being paid, however, she is considered innocent until proven a complete and utter idiot.
The move is a sign that the agency is taking the investigation against Kerry O’Grady, the agent who wrote the Facebook post, seriously. Critics, however, question why it took the agency three months and a report in the Washington Examiner earlier this week for it to initiate the probe.
Joseph Clancy, the director of the Secret Service, sent an email to all employees Wednesday night notifying them of the formal probe, and asking them for “patience while the RES, (Office of Professional Responsibility), conducts their investigation.”
It may take a month or so, but I suspect that Agent Kelly O’Grady will soon be known as “Former” Agent Kelly O’Grady. For starters, it’s obvious that she isn’t smart enough to be a federal agent. Posting something like “I won’t take a bullet” when that is exactly her job indicates she is unfit for her position.
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~The Angry Webmaster~
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Aaaand, she’s been suspended.
Ms. O’Grady has committed a serious felony and for to keep the trust of the public of the Secret Service, she MUST be given the harshest penalty possible. As an ex-LEO, I know the highest standard that should be held to that the public should expect, and Secret Service Agents should be held to an even higher standard expected. (Maybe she could be Felony’s cell mate and could take a stab to protect her ?) :- /
Other than the Hatch Act, I’m not familiar with what other laws she might have violated. Jailing her seems a bit extreme. Termination from her job, loss of pension, loss of security clearance, that would be best and she wouldn’t getting room and board on the taxpayer’s dime.
Better to ruin than imprison. Cheaper too.
I can see that shame would be worse than in prison could be worse to her, IF she has any honor… The only thing is that without legal penalty to her, then that Secret Service will bear the shame as well. Yes, it won’t cost the taxpayers putting her in prison but we pay for people that had made not as serious actions she did, but the principle of our legal system would suffer a blow to it’s basic bedrock, if it happens again and again, then how we have any way to say that there is any bedrock of principles that our Republic were built upon ?
Remember when you posted this http://angry.net/blog2/?p=16852& getting less able in it’s duties. That was the start of the crumbling of the bedrock. ( damn it, could you fix the link please)
Disqus required me to approve this since it had a link to it. And I do recall it now. The service does need a full overhaul.
It is probably is my fault; since the long time for recovery from my last Stroke & Heart Attack, I have had troubling typing/using the to things with /bolding/underlining/linking a post with a word… ;-((((( Three years or so; I was posting several times ago a day on my own Blog; now I can’t even remember even how my sign in password to it is { on my other computer it had all my passwords were on a secured list, but it had been stolen before I got out of the Hospital …same with my old Gmail account info…)