Post by kj on May 17, 2008 7:38:05 GMT -5
Obama take note. Racially-insensitive emails have emerged that have exposed Secret Service agents making crude remarks about the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his family. Jackson, like Obama was provided with a detail of agents early in his his much heralded run for the Oval Office in the 80’s. The most insensitive emails paint a scenario where Jackson and his wife would be assassinated by a missile shooting their plane out of the sky.
The Secret Service e-mail, CBS 2 obtained from a court filing in Washington, was titled “The Righteous Reverend,” and jokes about the deaths of Jackson and his wife when a missile strikes their plane. The e-mail ends with, it “certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”
The inquiry into these emails was put forth by “black” agents who have been fighting for years to obtain a full record of the agencies communications. As a defense, the Agency alleges that these were a few bad apples out a batch of millions of communications but the persons involved were top brass officials and if the leadership harbored those sentiments then who cares what their subordinates felt. Also uncovered were sexually explicit and pornographic communications between agents.
A Secret Service spokesperson says the 10 e-mails were discovered in a search of more than 20 million electronic documents over a 16-year period.
More damaging, though, is who sent and received them: top brass, including the former Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Detail, as well as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago field office
The Secret Service e-mail, CBS 2 obtained from a court filing in Washington, was titled “The Righteous Reverend,” and jokes about the deaths of Jackson and his wife when a missile strikes their plane. The e-mail ends with, it “certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”
The inquiry into these emails was put forth by “black” agents who have been fighting for years to obtain a full record of the agencies communications. As a defense, the Agency alleges that these were a few bad apples out a batch of millions of communications but the persons involved were top brass officials and if the leadership harbored those sentiments then who cares what their subordinates felt. Also uncovered were sexually explicit and pornographic communications between agents.
A Secret Service spokesperson says the 10 e-mails were discovered in a search of more than 20 million electronic documents over a 16-year period.
More damaging, though, is who sent and received them: top brass, including the former Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Detail, as well as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago field office