Secret Service Agents Sacked From Obama's Security Detail
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Two Secret Service officers on President Obama's security detail have been removed after two separate incidents of alleged misconduct. (Chuck Patch/Wikimedia Commons)
Two Secret Service officers are currently being investigated for alleged misconduct, with one confirmed to have been removed from President Obama's security detail. The Washington Post reports that the two men were placed under investigation after one left a bullet from his service weapon in a woman's room at the Hay Adams Hotel near the White House.
In the incident, which occurred last spring, Ignacio Zamora Jr., after striking up a conversation with a woman at a bar in the Hay-Adams Hotel and subsequently going to the woman's hotel room, was asked to leave by the woman after she found out that he had a firearm on him. Zamora Jr. left, but then realized that he had left a bullet behind. Zamora Jr.'s bullet was found, and he was later removed from his role on the President's security detail.
The second agent, Timothy Barraclough, is also under investigation after evidence that he may have sent suggestive emails to a female co-worker. Barraclough has been reassigned from his role on the President's security detail to a separate part of the division.
In March 2013, after Mark Sullivan stepped down from his position as the Director of the Secret Service, President Obama named Julia Pierson, a veteran Secret Service agent as the agency's first female director - a decision that was seen by many an indicator of his hope to change a "male-dominated" culture at the Secret Service.
Read the full story at The Washington Post
