The US Secret Service is accused of failing to respond to an insider threat at the agency – and retaliated against the whistleblower who reported the threat during the Biden Administration.
News of the insider threat comes less than one year after two assassination attempts against President Trump – one in Butler, Pennsylvania (July 13) – and another attempt at his Mar-a-Lago golf course (September 15).
According to RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree, the Secret Service hired an applicant who failed the terrorism section of the polygraph test.
Failing a polygraph test typically disqualifies a Secret Service applicant – however, the agency has a dangerous ‘friends and family’ loophole which allows people with certain connections to retake the polygraph test more than once.
The agency allowed this ‘insider threat’ to evaluate others’ security clearances, according to a whistleblower.
The whistleblower claims they were retaliated against, forced to resign and now the agency is threatening to revoke their security clearance.
“Instead of investigating the individual for posing a potential threat to the agency and the top U.S. officials it protects, including the president and the vice president, the agent alleges he was retaliated against and forced to resign after serving more than 20 years in the Secret Service. The agent who reported the insider threat concerns alleges that agency officials are continuing to retaliate against him by threatening his security clearance if he doesn’t drop his legal complaints,” Susan Crabtree reported.
Per RealClearPolitics:
The Secret Service never investigated internal reports of an insider threat to the agency and separately allowed an applicant who failed the polygraph terrorism section to be hired and serve in a position evaluating security clearances for fellow agents, according to a former agent whistleblower who has reported his complaints to Congress.
The former senior agent, who served in a supervisory role when he reported the suspected insider threat during the Biden administration, also raised concerns about the agency’s failure to implement a mental health screening test for applicants. (The FBI, the CIA, and numerous police departments around the country require mental-health screening tests for all applicants.)
Even though the Secret Service is tasked with protecting the president, vice president, and other high-level federal government officials, it doesn’t have a similar mental health screening system for its applicants. It’s unclear if the agency is planning to implement one after the two assassination attempts against President Trump last year.
EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING: SECRET SERVICE ACCUSED OF FAILING TO RESPOND TO ‘INSIDER-THREAT’ COMPLAINTS
AGENCY HIRED APPLICANT WHO FAILED TERRORISM SECTION OF POLYGRAPH TEST AND NOW ALLOWS HIM TO EVALUATE OTHERS’ SECURITY CLEARANCES, WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES
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— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) March 31, 2025
Problems with Secret Service agents fighting and excessively drinking have plagued the agency for years.
Last year a female secret service agent assigned to Kamala Harris got into a physical fight with other agents at Joint Base Andrews.
According to reports, the problem agent, identified as Michelle Herczeg, began acting aggressively, speaking gibberish and shouting incoherently at other agents while they were near the lounge at JBA.
Herczeg reportedly threw menstrual pads at another agent before getting into a brawl a JBA.
RealClearPolitics previously reported that Herczeg grabbed a male agent’s personal cell phone and began deleting apps on it before she completely melted down.
Agent Herczeg had to be physically restrained and her firearm was taken away from her. She was handcuffed and taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
“Herczeg then chest-bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled him and punched him. The agents involved in restraining Herczeg were especially concerned because she still had her gun in the holster. They wrestled her to the ground, took the gun from her, cuffed her, and then removed her from the terminal,” RealClearPolitics reported.
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