article_snippet: Secret Service Director Joe Clancy said on Thursday that two agents who allegedly 'crashed' into a White House barrier in early March while driving under the influence merely bumped into a barrel. '
article_snippet: Previous reports of a crash are inaccurate - there was a crash,' Secret Service Director Joe Clancy told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee during testimony on the agency's budget request. 'the agency's budget request shows the vehicle entering the White House complex at a speed of approximately 1 to 2 mph, and pushing aside a plastic barrel.
article_snippet: There was no damage to the vehicle entering the White House complex at a speed of approximately 1 to 2 mph.'
article_snippet: Congress may never know whether two agents who crashed into a White House barrier in early March were driving under the influence because it's the Secret Service policy to erase tapes after 72 hours, a congressman has revealed .
article_snippet: The two agents involved in the March 4 episode were reportedly driving back in an agency vehicle from departing Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan's going away party when The two agents involved in the March 4 episode rolled through an area outside the White House that was sectioned off by yellow security tape and hit a barricade.
article_snippet: Chaffetz told CBS that the videos Chaffetz did see showed The two agents involved in the March 4 episode coming just feet from hitting the suspected bomb, which turned out to be a non-threatening package.
article_snippet: The footage did not show what happened afterward. '
article_snippet: In terms of were The footage drunk or inebriated, can't tell,' Chaffetz said, because the tapes did not show the agents exiting an agency vehicle or driving home after the incident. '
highlights_snippet: Allegedly drunk agents interrupted a suspicious package investigation; Chaffettz says Allegedly drunk agents came feet from hitting the suspected bomb .