Secret Service Deletes Tweet Mentioning Fox News
**Written by Doug Powers
Is it just me, or does the Secret Service need to redouble efforts these days to put the “secret” part back in their name?
From Yahoo News:
Turns out it’s not just news organizations that are grappling with proper Twitter etiquette for their employees. The U.S. Secret Service has also hit a social media snag, via an all-too-candid tweet on Fox News that forced the agency to issue a rare official apology. And to compound the Secret Service’s very bad week on social media, it’s also won plenty of adverse coverage for pulling a 13-year-old boy out of school to interrogate him over a Facebook post, without his mother on hand to safeguard his interests..
The government security body issued an apology Wednesday after one of its employees seemed to blast Fox News on the agency’s official Twitter account, which was registered with the micro-blogging service on May 9.
The Tweet was deleted, but not before somebody re-tweeted it:

A spokesman for the Secret Service said it’s not out of the ordinary for agents to “monitor” Fox News — or any other news organization.
[...]
“Here’s the thing,” said Ed Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service. “This is the public affairs office. We have employees that watch TV during the day, watch the news stations during the day for stories that affect the Secret Service.”
Why are Secret Service employees spending time monitoring Fox News when all they have to do is check Media Matters?
**Written by Doug Powers
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LOL, dear Secret Service. Your boss is a joke. Monitor THAT!!
@secret service, I hope barry hussien obama’s wife beats him to incapacitation for that tamale remark he made on cinco de mayo
Isn’t Media Matters a department of the Secret Service now?
Watching TV all day and get paid for it? You’d think they were on welfare. Do these employees at least have an office that isn’t in someone’s basement?
Hmm. A job my oldest son could handle.
I should have him apply.
If the secret service has gone far left, as evidenced in their original tweet regarding fox news, is that part of the reason as to why it took over 10 years to find and kill Bin Laden. Maybe the secret service sympathized with Bin Laden and didn’t want to see his demise.
so, if they watch all the ‘news stations’, why would they delete a tweet regarding Fox only?
I want my country’s secret service to monitor terrorist organizations like Fox News, and also closely keep an eye on propaganda sources like the WSJ editorial page, and questionable actors like Limbaugh, Levin and Savage. It is absolutely a matter of national security, a no brainer since 9-11. This is the real threat to our country, the traitors within. Good looking out, SS!
The not-so-Secret Service is just followin’ orders, hup, two, three, four.
Our Federal agencies watch daytime TV? Well it IS a waste of taxpayer money but as long as the overly important clowns are on the public payroll it might keep them from sleeping on the job as their bros in the Air Traffic Control Towers tend to do. It also keeps them in the office so they won’t be bothering honest people, shooting women holding babies or pulling a 13-year-old out of class as they seem to do. Cut their budget 50% and limit their responsibilities.
tweet tweet Tweety Birds.
==
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms–>Constitutional Carry
It is a RIGHT-not a license from “our betters”.
i hope i don’t get blasted for this, but! if i was forced to watch geraldo for my job, i might call that blathering too. now, red eye, i could watch that every night. speaking of red eye, has MM ever been one of the guest hotties on the show? and if not, why not?
I guess it is easier for the secret Service to keep track of pre-teens on facebook than to focus on real threats. What the kid said hardly smacked of a threat. This administration is making the SS look dumb.
We are totally on our own when the group designed to protect the president is tracking FOX news and children. Hey Janet, look out for those child caused disasters.
The Secret Service monitoring Fox news.
How Nixonian.
They probably monitor Michelle Malkins web site as well.
From Secret Service Paranoia Twitter account:@stupid
Southpaw.To.Re-Education.Camp.9
So the main purpose of the Secret Service is to protect the Secret Service. I could understand monitoring the news for stories that might reveal threats against the President or other public officials. But to be concerned about how the news affects the Secret Service is ludicrous.
What do they plan to do when they come across stories they don’t like? Do they plan to censor the news in the name of “national security”? Isn’t this the unspoken part of this story that we should be most concerned about?
I’ll just point out that this is their PR department. From what I’ve found, PR departments tend to slant heavily left anyway; it’s that whole “spin” thing.
Gah. PA and PR.
Stupid question of the day:
Would I take a bullet for Barry?
Why does the Secret Service have a Twitter account? Or I should ask, Why is the Secret Service posting on Twitter?
Cut them some slack. That enemies list isn’t going to compile itself.
The SS watches TV to find out what’s going on?????? WTF? I guess we’ve now gone into the boobtubezone and no longer rely on any other means to keep “us” informed as to the possibility of terrorism, etc. *heavy, heavy sigh*
More like a natural propensity for hiding the truth.
Their “PR” department? Why in the world would they need a “PR” department? Dump the “PR” department and concentrate on genuine “protection and law enforcement” for a change. PR is another way of saying ‘CYA’…
Because freedom of speech is not for Fox?
Because the other media outlets are “state owned” and get to say whatever they want?
thank you for speaking truth to power, BK
Secret Service watchin’ the tube.
Fed employees lookin’ at internet porn.
Your tax dollars at work.
This regime could politicize a chicken salad sandwich.
All this means is when we elect a new President we fire everyone in the Secret Service to make sure all of those politicized are removed. We can then rebuild it with professionals.
This organization is too critical to be politicized. If innocents get fired, so be it. I no longer care.
So individuals and organizations who hate America and can endanger the President can listen in……unfreakin’ real.
Flyoverman said:
Unfortunately, you’re right. Call it professional envy. The agents look around and everyone else in DC has an opinion ( as you note ) on practically everything! Why not them?
Clean house. Get back to us.
Maybe, just MAYBE, the secret service person watching TV all day is ILoveMyMother’sToeNails – he does seem to get up a little late in the day, probably from “monitoring” all those ‘Blathering Shows’ on Fox News late at night.
For years, the Secret Service carried F.A.G. (Fast Action Gun) bags in the event of emergency. This bag would hold a submachine gun such as a micro- or mini-Uzi or an MP10.
The direction of the SS under this administration will see that the initials are removed.
We need more of Fox news, is there a way to get more true news outlets?
This is just like being a veteran and told you are a terrorist because you don’t toe HIS line!
More proof that people who slam Fox are not as bright as they think that they are.
“Blathering?” Hmmmmm. She must not watch the other “news” channels.
Further, why would she be comfortable using her PERSONAL Twitter account to let people know what she is doing while working for the Secret Service?
THAT would have been alright?
Oooops! I should only leak information from my PRIVATE accounts.
Why, she’s the very tops in discretion, I tell you, THE TOPS!!
im n ur accountz
deleetin ur tweetz
I really think it should be changed from Secret Service to Obvious Disservice.
Bozos…
There’s nothing wrong w/ not liking your assignment. It’s your right to not like it. But why make it -public- and why be so emphatic? This is where Major O and I had a difference just yesterday.
Here we’ve got Leftist Trolls ( On Government Payrolls! ) and now this? Personally, I approached the chain of command at my Guard base as to why Doug and/or MM aren’t accessible at our base?
I was told they’d look into it. The answer came back No. End of story. That rejection doesn’t give me the right to SLAM specific individuals -while- on the taxpayers dime.
OMG!!!
The Secret Service doesn’t trust “Media Matters”?
“Tweet; Tweet; Tweet”.
S.O.P. The Ministry of Mis-information Czar needs to monitor FNC to find out what’s really happening in the world so the SS knows who our enemies are. POTUS has no clue.
Maybe I am making waaay too much of the SS acronym, but didn’t have Hitler have a law enforcement and intelligence service agency with those initials? Historically, that is not what the Secret Service was set up for but in the wrong hands it does not take much of an imagination to see where this could quickly go awry and disastrously for us.
Maybe I am making waaay too much of the SS acronym, but didn’t have Hitler have a law enforcement and intelligence service agency with those initials?
The equivelent would probably be the Geheimstatz Politzi (spelling?) or more familiarly known as the Gestapo…the SS were Nazi Party soldiers, I believe. But you make a good comparison.
Didn’t Germany have an SS during the WW2?
Real men would not engage in anything called “twitter” nor would they waste their time composing a “tweet.”
Weak.
Cyber Weak. FIFY
@SecSup:
sum 1 mk atmpt on f’ball’s lif.
? Over!
@a-gent13:
Obs. tk brk as sched
@SecSup:
Rog
Yes it did:
One wonders if MM and all here are under the SS tweets? Our dear big bro is alive and well here in our nation thanks to bho. This not one bit funny what is happening in our Republic! Me thinks we need to get this slug bho and team outta here in 2012!
L
Methinks they aren’t going to go easily or quietly at all.
Sounds like Amy Sullivan probably works in Human Resources or Public Affairs. She was indoctrinated quite well at whatever University she probably attended too. This is the problem with the FBI, CIA, SS, etc… These supposed elite federal law enforcement branches only hire people with degrees, or those who got good grades by writing papers that was in total agreement with their teachers. Many fall for the propaganda. I had to deal with the FBI once (under Clinton): all I can say is that the TSA probably can do a better job. They are still riding on the reputation they got under Hoover. You can just color me, unimpressed.
You are right. mo and bho have got use to all the perks taxpayers are giving them and they will have their fingernails clawing to get rid of them. Sure hope enough voters and it is growing daily will give this slug the boot! I just pray we are ‘allowed’ to vote bho out if a crisis doesn’t happen.
L
President Joe Biden!
Okay, what about now?
Oh hell, she’s got the website up and running 24/7 and is telling nothing but the truth. Let ‘em look all they want!
hawkeye54 said:
And if that entails riots in the streets over questionable voting tactics and elections results, then so be it. If he can’t Rule Amerika, then NO ONE will!
So wait….we pay people to just set around and watch TV and for that they can collect defense benafits….no wonder we have some much debt.
Stop! You’re scarin’ me!
Have to skip code words like “ObamaCare” and “constitution” in my writing. People. Like. Them. Could. Be. Reading.
People who hate our country would never endanger THIS president
Gdwn Liu, 9th Ckt Not For U
U Go Home, Now
At the time George HW Bush was running against Clinton I was dating an ATF agent. She was a big Dem supporter and was telling me how 80% of the SS and other Treasury agents she knew (while working security details for the candidates) would be voting for Clinton.
After all the bizarre antics and vulgar behavior that agents saw exhibited by the Clintons, she told me later that the number totally flipped the other way. Looks like the SS, like most other agencies has become re-infested with toxic Liberalism. Too bad. Like smallpox it’s a disease that leaves scars.
This is the caliber of people now being employed by Treasury? Oh I forgot. Tim Geithner works there.
Can we at least assume that @SULLIVANAMY is no longer working for the Secret Service? Good night Alice, how the mighty have fallen.
SS agent Barry Soetoro: Sign ze papers!
Old man: I cannot sign ze papers.
SS/BS: Would you like a zigarette old man? How about zis one? [sssssssssssss] Now sign ze papers!
Old man: I cannot sign ze papers.
SS/BS: Why cannot you sign ze papers?
Old man: Because you broke my hands.
No, no, no, it should be something like this.
@Chief: Chief, we need 2 use the CoS.
@MaxwellSmart: We can’t.
@Chief: Don’t tell me the CoS is broken again.
@MaxwellSmart: The COS is broken again.
@Chief: I told you not to tell me.
Were I the child’s father those agents would be pouring ice water on their heads after I got finished with them. Unprofessional punks.
There was a time when men and women in the security services were impeccable professionals and greatly admired. Those days are fading I fear. More and more people in these positions are assuming the visage of old Europe communist apparachiks.
Got to drive The Littlest Emperor from power now. We cannot survive 5 1/2 more years of this Khemer Rouge redux.
Roger that.
Especially after today, when he opened the first day of Israeli hunting season in the Holy Land.
Leftists never change, not in Germany during WW2, and not now.
Of course the feds monitor news organizations. How else will they know when to threaten and punish them?
Of course, in the case of Fox I would have assumed they were already on the “Enemies of Barack” list…
Sad thing is, Barky will still get the majority Jewish vote in 2012.
Go figure.
So Secret Service have nothing to do except to watch television? Maybe they are bored to death watching daytime shows except for Fox News. They should start looking for counterfeit moneys instead of doing the worthless television watching.
Every agency of the federal government is being transformed by this administration. This is unlike anything previously seen, Dear Reader means to use all of it to get reelected, and probably re-reelected.
If we get Barry Soetoro out, we’ll need to fumigate each and every agency.
Maybe it’s a case of familiarity breeding contempt, and there being a flip in favor for something new. It does remind me of this, which I recently read:
“But there is a truth that ought to be made known: I have had the opportunity of seeing it; which is that notwithstanding appearances, there is not any description of men that despise monarchy so much as courtiers. But they well know, that if it were seen by others, as it is seen by them, the juggle could not be kept up. They are in the condition of men who get their living by a show, and to whom the folly of that show is so familiar that they ridicule it; but were the audience to be made as wise in this respect as themselves, there would be an end to the show and the profits with it. The difference between a republican and a courtier with respect to monarchy, is that the one opposes monarchy, believing it to be something; and the other laughs at it, knowing it to be nothing.”
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man 1791
No
oops, where did that No come from?
It was like that before. The public sector union constantly reminds their members about what bennies they got for them and tell them that the Republicans would have never let them have them so they better vote democrat. Many govt. agencies require degrees. Since degrees are easy to get now, some govt. agencies are only hiring people with masters. They hire people who were indoctrinated in school in liberal thought. I have talked to an FBI agent who blamed Bush for teaching Bin Laden to fight the Russians so Bush is to blame for 9/11. A DOD employee who told me that Americans are to blame for terrorism against them (something about how its our fault cause we only speak one language, it was so crazy I blanked out). A Border Patrol Agent who said that the U.S. is a racist country and should just go after criminals, if a border crosser is not a criminal, then he should be let in. We are screwed. Imagine Chap, ILMC and RSS doing domestic security…. Scary, ain’t it?
Yes!!
Innocent until proven guilty: good
Innocent EVEN AFTER proven guilty: bad
Victim actually guilty: bad
Guilty now in charge: bad
Hey! I have some Fox News!
At my company, we have 8 baby foxes living near the corporate entrance. Here are 2 of them.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150184297397407&set=pu.34642262406&type=1&theater
That’s all.
I’m no Marlin Perkins, but shouldn’t they be skittish around humans?
I thought the same thing! But they have followed two of my friends who live in the neighborhood half the way home. I don’t know why they’re like that!
Answer still not no, but HELL NO!
Whatever happened to Marilyn Lange?
Hey Hangfire,
I found her and ns4w.org
The secret service is doing what every GI had to do occasionally, pull guard duty on that specially important facility, the latrine. Sure it’s a dung heap but you really don’t want some malcontent venting his anti-social behavior on it and it just has to be protected.
Thought DHS compiled that list already – Veterans and all right-wingers.
Secret Service watching TV to find out what’s going on???
Seriously now, isn’t that the tail wagging the dog?
Also, was that SS employee’s tweet an indication of their political bias?
Yeah. It’s embarrassing to see what our gov’t is doing under Obama.
Hey…. look what else Obama’s gov’t is doing.
Throwing Israel under the bus.
Like last time but with serious consequences for Israel.
Seems Obama has more in common with Hamas than he does with Israel. Not surprising given he is an anti-Semite.
TK-421: Why aren’t you at your post?
Sounds like the Secret Service nailed that one – you ever seen the losers on Fox? Much less, listened to them?
This country is currently upside down.
Apparently I was wrong…I have always thought that Maxwell Smart was a fictional character! Now we find out that he must have been based on actual Secret Service employees! What do you know!
It’s too bad you don’t read the Constitution (not that you could understand it even if you did read it). What country do you love? It isn’t the United States, that’s for certain.
baby fox= ‘Kit’
Or pup, right? I think I’ve read both?
I’ve seen certainly seen losers featured on Fox.
Have you actually ever watched Fox?
Also, most people DO listen to the television as we watch. Is that not what you do? That may be your problem. While watching television, turn the volume up to an audible level. You’re not allowed to drive or operate heavy machinery, are you?
No. Maxwell Smart is a fictional character. The real Maxwell Smart loved his country, and those Maxwell Smart impersonators in the
SecretPoliceSecret Service don’t.The Secret Service agent was watching Shepard Smith on Fox News. I don’t blame him. Enough of Shepard’s blathering.
And this agent was selected for this gruelling work after not rubbing Barry’s Mother-In-Laws bunions well enough
Is that how he was selected
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