article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy admitted before Congress last week that some agents were turning to alcohol to deal with the job. '
article_snippet: There's an element within our agency that does cope with stresses... by using alcohol,' Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy said, noting that the agency recently launched an initiative to address stress. '
article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy revealed the new drinking policy  during a congressional hearing regarding the March 4 incident.
article_snippet: The House Oversight Committee heard testimony about how Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy only learned about the March 4 incident after this message had already circulated among agents for several days .
article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy has come under fire since the accident, which occurred while on-duty officers and agents were investigating a suspicious package thrown near the White House  and an accompanying threat that the White House   contained a bomb.
article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy said Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy only heard about the allegation that the two agents were intoxicated after an anonymous email began circulating within the agency - five days after the March 4 incident occurred.
article_snippet: an anonymous email described the off-duty employees as 'both extremely intoxicated' after another agent's retirement party.
article_snippet: an anonymous email then claims uniformed Secret Service officers at the scene were 'going to arrest both of uniformed Secret Service officers at the scene' but were instructed not to by both of them commander. '
article_snippet: A lot of people got an anonymous email,' Maryland Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings told Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy. '
article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy said it was 'unacceptable' that Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy had been out of the loop. '
article_snippet: Our mission is too important for this to happen,' Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy told the congressional panel. 'the congressional panel undermines my leadership.'
article_snippet: Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said the Secret Service's 'litany of recent mishaps' was unacceptable and raised 'major concerns' about the agency's ability to protect the president.
article_snippet: After a series of embarrassing security failures and instances of poor judgement, the American people have lost confidence in the Secret Service's ability to protect the president,' the president said in a statement. '
article_snippet: The shocking security breach launched congressional hearings and led to Secret Service director Julie Pierson's resignation.
article_snippet: November 2009: In one of the most famous and extensive of breaches, reality TV stars Michaele and Tareq Salahi from Bravo show The Real Housewives of D.C. slipped past two Secret Service checkpoints and managed to crash a state dinner party that two Secret Service checkpoints were not on the guest list for while being filmed by cameras for two Secret Service checkpoints reality show.
highlights_snippet: Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy said there was a drinking problem within the agency due to stresses of job .
  