A few months ago, two Secret Service agents got really wasted and drove into a White House barricade. As if that wasn’t enough of a faux pas on its own, in the process they messed up an active crime scene with a possible bomb. Whoops!
Coincidentally, one of those liquored-up lawmen is now, um, “retiring.” FoxNews.com:
A top Secret Service agent who worked on President Obama’s security detail and was being investigated for allegedly crashing into a White House security barrier is retiring, agency officials told Fox News Wednesday.
Marc Connolly, a former second-in-command on Obama’s security detail, was being investigated along with fellow agent George Ogilvie for the March 4 incident in which the pair allegedly drove a government car into a security barrier near the White House and onto an active crime scene where a suspicious item was being investigated…
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the inspector general’s investigation concluded the two agents were likely impaired by alcohol when the incident occurred, having spent five hours at a bar racking up a large tab with two colleagues at a work party.
CNN has more details on that fateful drink-up:
Connolly and George Ogilvie, the senior agent driving the vehicle the night of the incident, attended a two-hour, open-bar retirement party on March 4, but stayed for three more hours at the bar with two other Secret Service colleagues, according to the Homeland Security Department’s Inspector General report.
It was then that Ogilvie opened a tab, buying “eight glasses of scotch, two vodka drinks, one glass of wine and three glasses of beer,” the report said.
Then, instead of catching a cab and going home to sleep it off, they brought further dishonor on an already scandal-plagued agency.
Sounds about right. A fish rots from the head down. Drink up, everybody.