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DonViejo

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Wed Feb 18, 2015, 02:05 PM Feb 2015

Obama Said to Choose Joseph Clancy as New Head of Secret Service

Source: New York Times


President Obama has decided to appoint Joseph P. Clancy, who has guided the Secret Service on an interim basis for the past four months, to permanently lead the agency, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

In appointing Mr. Clancy, a former head of Mr. Obama’s security detail, the president rejected calls from critics on Capitol Hill and members of a special Department of Homeland Security panel who said that a string of mishaps and scandals made it clear that the agency should be run by an outsider.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/us/obama-said-to-choose-joseph-clancy-as-new-head-of-secret-service.html?

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Obama Said to Choose Joseph Clancy as New Head of Secret Service (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2015 OP
Clancy! This is not good... onehandle Feb 2015 #1
another link n2doc Feb 2015 #2
Let me guess. Another corrupt insider, yes? blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #3
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