article_snippet: Police surveillance video shown publicly for the first time Tuesday shows the Secret Service agents in their government vehicle driving through the secured area and nudging a temporary barrier at low speed as it drove toward a checkpoint.
article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy was testifying for the third time about the incident, in which two senior agents are accused of drinking before driving into the White House complex and pushing the barrier with the SUV's bumper.
article_snippet: This screen grab from a police video shows a March 4, 2015 incident involving allegedly drunk Secret Service agents who hit a White House barricade while a suspicious package was under investigation nearby .
article_snippet: The House Oversight Committee heard testimony about how Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy learned about a March 4, 2015 incident involving allegedly drunk Secret Service agents who hit a White House barricade while a suspicious package was under investigation nearby – after this message had already circulated among agents for several days .
article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy has been criticized for the agency's handling of a March 4, 2015 incident involving allegedly drunk Secret Service agents who hit a White House barricade while a suspicious package was under investigation nearby.
article_snippet: an anonymous email that was circulating within the agency described the off-duty agents as 'both extremely intoxicated' and confused about the bomb investigation underway near where the off-duty agents vehicle came to rest.
article_snippet: It said uniformed Secret Service officers at the scene 'were going to arrest both of uniformed Secret Service officers at the scene, but the UD (Uniform Division) watch commander said not to.' '
article_snippet: Minutes later an SUV driven by an agent who had been drinkign at a retirement party drove into a Secret Service barricade near the scene of a bomb investigation .
article_snippet: The March 4 debacle was part of 'a litany of recent mishaps,' Chaffet lectured, which 'raise major concerns' about the Secret Service ability to protect the presidential mansion and the first family. '
article_snippet: The Homeland Security Department's inspector general is investigating allegations against the agents.
article_snippet: Lawmakers asked to speak with the agents involved, as well as Secret Service supervisors who were on duty that night, during the hearing.
article_snippet: In a written statement, Clancy said the case remains under investigation and any appropriate discipline will be imposed afterward.
article_snippet: Ultimately the Secret Service agents on duty determined that the package wasn't dangerous – but the agents in the SUV couldn't have known that .
highlights_snippet: March 4 incident involved allegedly drunk senior agents who drove into the White House complex in a government vehicle .
  