The Secret Service is dealing with yet another scandal involving a rogue agent.
This time, the agent revealed secrets about Vice President J.D. Vance’s protective detail, its schedule, and how the vice president travels. Tomas Escotto, now on administrative leave, disclosed the security information to an undercover reporter from the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG).
The latest embarrassment for the once-respected agency comes after two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump, the first of which was nearly successful and forced the resignation of the agency’s girl boss, whose top priority was hiring women to become agents.
It also appears that another priority at the agency is hiring foreigners. Escotto, who confessed that he hates Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, did not become a citizen until 2018.
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Escotto met the OMG undercover on Tinder in October. On meeting the reporter, he readily whipped out his Secret Service identification when she asked.
Escotto told the reporter he “hates” Immigration and Customs Enforcement and voted for Joe Biden. Escotto also sent the reporter photos of himself at a Christmas Party with protectees Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff.
Frighteningly, as OMG summarized Escotto’s communications, he “detailed how the Vice President is physically surrounded, described multiple daily shift changes, & disclosed advance security procedures.”
As well, he “revealed future travel plans, sometimes days in advance,” the report continued:
Escotto even sent images from Air Force Two while onboard with the Vice President. Despite acknowledging that he signed paperwork prohibiting the disclosure of sensitive information, the Secret Service agent repeatedly shared details with someone he believed was a casual romantic interest.
Escotto also divulged how many agents protect the vice president ahead of and behind him, and sent photos — containing metadata revealing the time and location taken — including one of the vice president’s caravan loading onto the jet.
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New Citizen; Hates ICE
That Escotto voted for Joe Biden is not surprising. What is surprising is this: His vote for Biden in 2020, he confessed, “was the first time I was able to vote. I wasn’t a citizen. I got my citizenship in 2018.”
Escotto told the reporter that he has been an agent for five years, which means the Secret Service hired him only two years after he became a citizen. So despite being a citizen less than 10 years, Escotto has served on two vice presidential protective details.
Escotto offered his opinions on President Trump’s deployment of ICE. Explaining that ICE agents shouldn’t cover their faces, he said, “I don’t agree with that at all.”
“I hate that [expletive],” he said. “They’re deploying tactics that shouldn’t be deployed.”
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The agency is investigating. Escotto is on “administrative leave with his clearance suspended and access to agency facilities and systems revoked.”
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As OMG noted, the security breach is particularly troubling because a “trans woman” tried to break in to Vance’s home in Ohio on January 5.
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