The Secret Service Wants to Know Who’s Leaking Damaging Stories to the Washington Post

The White HouseFor months, the agency charged with protecting the president has been rocked by revelations of alleged misconduct. These incidents have fueled a congressional investigation and led to the resignation of former Secret Service Director Julia Pierson last October.

With scrutiny mounting, the normally tight-lipped agency is now consumed by an intense, high-level guessing game over who was motivated to leak information to the Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig, who first reported many of these allegations.

A source within the Secret Service told Business Insider there is furious and widespread discussion within the agency about who might be talking to Leonnig.

“There’s a lot of speculation,” said the insider, calling the leaks “problematic.”

Leonnig’s latest bombshell was published on March 11. It detailed an incident that took place seven days earlier when a pair of Secret Service agents drove a car into a barricade that was set up next to a suspicious package that had been placed in front of the White House. The agents, including a top member of the president’s security detail, had reportedly just come from a party and the area had been cleared to investigate the package. (Read more from “The Secret Service Wants to Know Who’s Leaking Damaging Stories to the Washington Post?” HERE)

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