Click on the audio player above to hear this interview."United States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis." That's the title of a recent Congressional report on a series of disturbing lapses made at the Secret Service over the years.
Indiscretions and missteps include agents taking prostitutes back to their rooms while on an official White House trip,to agents drunkenly crashing into a White House barricade final March, among others. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, or a Republican from Utah and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,is calling for a current approach in how the agency is staffed."Perhaps what we should attain is lean on the U.
S. military, the FBI, and the U.
S. Marshals,[and] others to be assigned or detailed to the Secret Service for the next 12 months so that they can make it through the presidential election," Chaffetz said Tuesday. "We need people who can wield a gun, and know what they're doing and be trusted."Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich takes a look at the key findings of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report. What you'll learn from this segment:How Secret Service culture has and hasn't changed in recent years.
How favoritism plays into the discipline structure at the Secret Service.
What the report says about cover ups,low morale, and whistleblowers. //
Source: wnyc.org