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(14 May 2015) A top government investigator told a House oversight panel that two senior Secret Service agents were "more likely than not" impaired by alcohol when they drove through a secure area at the White House earlier this year.
That finding was at the heart of a report issued by Inspector General John Roth, who discussed the findings before members of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday afternoon."
"The two agents displayed poor judgment and a lack of situational awareness in driving into the scene, Roth said.
According to his report, George Ogilvie and Marc Connolly spent five hours at a bar, ran up a significant tab, and then drove back to the White House, where they shoved their car into a construction barrier and drove within inches of a suspicious package earlier this year.
They were among dozens of agency personnel who went to a retirement party for another agent but when the party wrapped up on March 4, the pair and two other, non-agent Secret Service employees, stuck around the Irish-themed bar for three more hours.
In advance of the report's release late Wednesday, Connolly, the deputy special agent in charge of the Presidential Protection Division, notified the agency that he would retire. Ogilvie has been placed on administrative leave.
The incident became public days after it happened and forced Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy to head to Capitol Hill to once again explain a Secret Service scandal to lawmakers.
In a statement Wednesday, Clancy said he was "disappointed and disturbed at the apparent lack of judgment described in this report. Behavior of the type described in the report is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Clancy's appearance on Capitol Hill earlier this year followed earlier embarrassments for the Secret Service.
In fact, he was appointed to its top position after his predecessor, Julia Pierson, was ousted following a series of embarrassing security breaches involving Secret Service agents and officers.

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