The push to place as many women as possible into the U.S. Secret Service nearly had deadly consequences yesterday.
A woman agent on Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail attacked fellow agents at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington, D.C., the Washington Examiner and RealClearPolitics (RCP) reported.
RCP also revealed that the agent was something of a loose cannon when she was a beat cop in Dallas, Texas.
The takeaway: The Secret Service gave a gun to someone who never should have been hired.
The Attack
“The Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris was removed from her duties Wednesday after physically attacking the commanding agent in charge and other agents trying to subdue her, according to an agency spokesman and knowledgeable Secret Service sources,” RCP reported.
Agent Michelle Herczeg, the website continued, attacked her superior at about 9 a.m. at the former Andrews Air Force Base.
The website’s description of what occurred and Herczeg’s past clearly indicates that the Secret Service grievously erred in hiring the woman:
Herczeg showed up at the terminal and began acting erratically, grabbing another senior agent’s personal phone and deleting applications on it, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The other agent, a shift leader, was able to recover his phone and then acted as if nothing had happened.
But Herczeg’s bizarre behavior didn’t stop. She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,” a source told RealClearPolitics.
The deranged behavior continued, and when the agents in charge relieved her, “that’s when she snapped entirely,” a source told the website:
Herczeg then chest-bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled him and punched him. The agents involved in restraining Herczeg were especially concerned because she still had her gun in the holster. They wrestled her to the ground, took the gun from her, cuffed her, and then removed her from the terminal.
Medical personnel removed the Herczeg from the scene.
DEI Hire
What could have turned into a shooting with multiple fatalities has “agents and officers … privately questioning the hiring process and whether the agency had adequately screened Herczeg’s background,” the website reported:
Some also wonder whether her hire was part of a diversity, equity, and inclusion push in response to years of staff shortages that may have required the agency to lower its once-strict employment standards and physical performance to reach quotas for female agents and officers.
Herczeg sued the Dallas police for more than $1 million for sex discrimination, the website reported. She accused a male superior of assaulting her, and claimed she was “targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably.” As well, she alleged, she suffered retaliation for reporting sex harassment. The courts dismissed her claims.
Herczeg was also involved in a controversial shooting.
“Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post who has written several books on the Secret Service said the agency would have traditionally viewed the dismissed discrimination lawsuit as disqualifying,” the website reported:
“Yes, that should have been enough to exclude her, because you really have to have a pristine record,” he told RCP Wednesday. “Certainly, this has been true in the past. There’s tremendous competition, and she never should have been hired.”
Kessler also pointed to a new initiative to increase the number of women in the Secret Service workforce.
Of course, the Secret Service says nothing is wrong at the agency, despite signing the daffy 30×30 initiative, which seeks to make women 30 percent of all law enforcement officers by 2030.
“Claims that the Secret Service’s standards have been lowered as a result of our signing this pledge are categorically false,” the agency’s spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, told RCP. Maybe, but the agency has different physical fitness standards for men and women.
And, of course, the Secret Service is all in with DEI. The agency has “affirmative employment” and “special emphasis” programs directed at blacks, Hispanics, “Indigenous Nations,” Asians, Pacific Islanders, and, of course, “LGBT.” It created no such programs for whites.
Another “special emphasis” program is the IEC, the agency’s “Inclusion and Engagement Council,” as RCP reported. It claims it will “build, foster, create and inspire a workforce where diversity and inclusion are not just ‘talked about’ but demonstrated by all employees through ‘Every Action, Every Day.’”
The Secret Service website explains that the council, “especially those in leadership positions, must be representative of men and women of all races, ethnicities, and gender groups. This will allow the IEC to draw from the diverse experiences of the workforce.”
RCP also described an agency where morale is shot because of “crushing workloads” and interminable hours.
But beyond that, apropos of Herczeg, the agency breaks its own rules to hire women. Citing a former uniformed officer, Gary Bryne, the website reported that one woman wasn’t required to take a polygraph test, which was standard operating procedure.
“They tell you if you have character issues or mental-stability issues, you can’t take the job, they’ll find out about it,” he told RCP. Then again, sometimes prospective agents can hide their mental health problems until the stress of the job forces them into the open, the website observed.
“If you have any instability issues at all, this job will expose them,” he said. That clearly seems to be the case with Herczeg.
But that comment also raises an obvious observation. The agency knowingly hires the unstable, meaning homosexuals, “transgenders” and other sex deviants who clearly have “character” and “mental stability” problems.
The strong likelihood is that many agents are frightfully waiting for one of the dangerous or incompetent DEI hires to go rogue and kill one or more people — perhaps even the president or vice president.
