Ex-Agent: Secret Service Too Cozy With Clinton, Press Interference ‘Dangerous’
The latest case of U.S. Secret Service agents blocking reporters from asking Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are “dangerous,” and could lead to media being threatened for getting too close to the candidate, according to a long-time former agent.
Dan Bongino, who was on Clinton’s security detail when she ran for the Senate in 2008, told Secrets, “This is dangerous. This is a dangerous development.”
One @SecretService agent told me today he was pressured by @HillaryClinton campaign to block reporters' Q's — campaign denies (3/4)
— Ed Henry (@edhenry) January 7, 2016
He explained: “It’s dangerous because you have an arm of the federal government now de facto controlling access for a free press to a major presidential candidate. I mean, where does it end? What’s next, do you start threatening people for asking questions?”
Bongino, author of the new book “The Fight, A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine,” added, “When you get the guys with guns involved, you start breaching a dangerous red line here. This is a staff function only.”
For the second straight day @SecretService agents blocked reporters from asking @HillaryClinton questions — this time California (1/4)
— Ed Henry (@edhenry) January 7, 2016
Clinton’s agents were criticized last year when they roped off reporters covering Clinton’s participation in a parade. (Read more from “Ex-Agent: Secret Service Too Cozy With Clinton, Press Interference ‘Dangerous'” HERE)
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