Secret Service agent 'put on leave after sexually assaulting Kamala Harris aide' in latest bombshell allegation

Accusations that a Secret Service supplier sexually assaulted a staffer connected Vice President Kamala Harris' run squad is conscionable nan latest ungraded to plague nan agency.

The incident allegedly happened while Harris staffers were eating and drinking astatine a section edifice complete nan past week erstwhile they were successful Green Bay, Wisconsin, to scheme for an arena that yet did not happen.

The caller study comes nan aforesaid time nan Senate released a study revealing a bid of failures by nan USSS yet allowed would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks to successfully onshore a changeable successful Donald Trump 's correct ear.

The agency has been nether aggravated scrutiny aft 2 assassination attempts against Trump successful nan span of conscionable 2 months.

Four sources successful nan Secret Service organization spoke astir nan latest incident to Real Clear Politics and claimed that location were group coming to witnesser nan inappropriate interaction.

Secret Service officials called nan accused supplier to office successful Washington, D.C., and ordered him to meet pinch investigators connected Monday pinch nan Inspections Division.

During nan beforehand information and readying trip, a group went backmost to a Harris' aide's edifice room wherever 1 supplier allegedly groped and forced himself onto a female staffer.

One root said nan accused supplier was very drunk and was kicked retired of nan edifice room by co-workers.

The supplier passed retired successful nan hallway wherever photographs were taken of him, according to nan personification wrong nan USSS community.

Harris' run opted to spell to Atlanta, Georgia connected Friday, September 20, alternatively than to Wisconsin wherever nan readying was happening.

'The U.S. Secret Service Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating a misconduct allegation involving an employee,' a Secret Service spokesperson told Real Clear Politics.

'The Secret Service holds its unit to nan highest standards. The worker has been placed connected administrative time off pending nan result of nan investigation,' they added.

The White House and USSS did not instantly respond to DailyMail.com's petition for remark connected nan allegations.

A Senate study this week reveals that Secret Service failures that led to nan first assassination effort against Trump included knowing for 27 minutes that Crooks was a suspicious individual.

Another troubling uncovering from nan bipartisan investigation was really method issues downed Secret Service drones during nan July 13 rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania.

It took respective hours to get nan drones backmost up and moving – and nan supplier responsible for nan drone operations only had 3 months of acquisition pinch nan equipment.

The study released connected Wednesday concluded that nan failures up of nan rally were 'foreseeable, preventable, and straight related to nan events resulting successful nan assassination effort that day.'

The 20-year-old, now-deceased shooter was capable to deed Trump successful his ear, termination 1 rally attendee and critically injure 2 others earlier a antagonistic sniper took him out.

Crooks was connected apical of a adjacent building a fewer 100 feet from wherever Trump was speaking that day, crouched down pinch an AR-15 rifle. He was capable to occurrence 8 rounds successful Trump's guidance little than 150 yards from wherever nan erstwhile president was speaking. 

Those investigating nan assassination effort person many times said drones should person been capable to observe nan shooter connected nan tile of an AGR analyzable building connected nan grounds of nan Butler Farm Show grounds.

Congress is considering much costs for nan USSS to bolster staffing and counterattack measures.

But nan Senate study besides recovered that pinch further resources, Secret Service engaged successful different questionable actions that led to information failures astatine nan rally that day.

For example, USSS denied circumstantial on-the-ground requests for further C-UAS drone capabilities and a Counter Assault Team liaison.

It besides recovered nan USSS was notified 2 minutes earlier Crooks fired shots astir an individual connected nan tile of nan building. 

Similar to nan agency's ain soul investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, nan interim study from nan Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee recovered aggregate failures connected almost each level.

This included planning, communications, information and allocation of resources.

'The consequences of those failures were dire,' said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, nan Democratic president of nan Homeland panel.

Investigators recovered that location was nary clear concatenation of bid among nan Secret Service and different information agencies and nary scheme for sum of nan building wherever nan shooter climbed up to occurrence nan shots.

Officials were operating connected multiple, abstracted power channels, starring to missed communications, and an inexperienced drone usability was stuck connected a thief statement aft his instrumentality wasn't moving correctly.

Communications among information officials were a 'multi-step crippled of telephone,' Peters said.

Trump, nan 2024 Republican statesmanlike nominee, was struck successful nan receptor by a slug aliases a slug part successful nan assassination attempt, 1 rallygoer was killed and 2 others were injured earlier nan gunman was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.

Approximately 22 seconds earlier Crooks fired, nan study found, a section serviceman sent a power alert that location was an equipped individual connected nan building.

But that accusation was not relayed to cardinal Secret Service unit who were interviewed by Senate investigators.

The sheet besides interviewed a Secret Service counter-sniper who said that they saw officers pinch their guns drawn moving toward nan building wherever nan shooter was perched, but nan personification said they did not deliberation to notify anyone to get Trump disconnected nan stage.

The Senate study comes conscionable days aft nan Secret Service released a five-page archive summarizing nan cardinal conclusions of a yet-to-be finalized Secret Service study connected what went wrong, and up of a Thursday proceeding that will beryllium held by a bipartisan House task unit investigating nan shooting.

The House sheet is besides investigating a 2nd assassination effort connected Trump earlier this period erstwhile Secret Service agents arrested a man pinch a firearm hiding connected nan play people astatine Trump's Florida club.

Each investigation has recovered caller specifications that bespeak a monolithic breakdown successful nan erstwhile president's security, and lawmakers opportunity location is overmuch much they want to find retired arsenic they effort to forestall it from happening again.

The senators recommended that nan Secret Service amended specify roles and responsibilities earlier immoderate protective event, including by designating a azygous individual successful complaint of approving each nan information plans.

In summation to amended defining work for events, nan senators recommended that nan agency wholly overhaul its communications operations astatine protective events and amended intelligence sharing.

They besides recommended that Congress measure whether much resources are needed.

Democrats and Republicans person disagreed connected whether to springiness nan Secret Service much money successful nan aftermath of its failures. 

A spending measure connected way to walk earlier nan extremity of nan period includes an further $231 cardinal for nan agency, but galore Republicans person said that an soul overhaul is needed first.

'This is simply a guidance problem plain and simple,' said Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, nan apical Republican connected nan Homeland panel's investigations subcommittee.