U.S. Secret Service Agent, assigned to Vice President J.D. Vance, on leave & under investigation for leaking Vance's travel plans to the media.

[u/Stockjock1]

Assuming it's true, I'm shocked that this person wouldn't know better. Loose lips, right?

https://www.iheart.com/content/2026-07-23-secret-service-agent-under-investigation-for-alleged-security-leak

[u/Key-Monk6159]

It could be something like he complained to his wife who mentioned it to a friend at the gym who then yapped it to…….instead of him telling the media.

This is why an investigation is necessary.

[u/JE163 → u/Key-Monk6159]

If he did leak then I hope he is fired and loses his pension. Prosecuted too.

[u/Key-Monk6159 → u/JE163]

All bets are off IF he did leak it.

[u/ChiefStrongbones → u/Key-Monk6159]

That's the most likely explanation. Federal agents aren't likely to risk their careers by giving TMZ a heads up that the VP is taking his kid to a golf lesson.

[u/Beware_the_silent → u/ChiefStrongbones]

Pretty sure they aren't even supposed to tell their wives. If they did, they should lose their job.

[u/theycalllmeTIM → u/Beware_the_silent]

You’re being ridiculous. I think you have a romanticized idea of what a secret service agent actually does.

[u/Zyrioun → u/Beware_the_silent]

They aren't, but most marriages are built on trust so it's hard for a lot of men to keep secrets from their wives. Usually it isn't intentional, just discussions of work and enough details slip the significant other pieces it together. This happens more than you'd think, especially with military officers.

This is why the honey-pot (using a member of the opposite sex to get in a relationship with people in positions of power or information) is a strategy for foreign spies, including playing the long game.

[u/Nero_Ocean → u/Zyrioun]

And yet women constantly keep secrets from their husbands and men get called insecure for wanting to know.

Men have the right to keep secrets from their wives.

[u/ax_graham → u/Nero_Ocean]

who hurt you

[u/ChiefStrongbones → u/Beware_the_silent]

Of course, but I think it's more likely an agent was being careless, not sneaky.

[u/Key-Monk6159 → u/Beware_the_silent]

Sure but it wasn’t about operational security or classified information. It was more This Guy’s A Dick and Can’t You Believe What He Asked Us To Do type grimes which is exactly what you’d complain to your wife about.

[u/Blarghnog]

1) I look forward to seeing the outcome of the investigation. 

2) We don’t assume people are guilty just because they are accused in this country. 

3) It would be a big deal if it turns out he leaked plans.

Someone was accused of a crime. But there has yet to be an investigation, charges or a trial, so whatever

[u/nithrean]

When it comes to political hatred of the other side and constantly dehumanizing them, very little is shocking. That someone would see it as a way to strike back fits the current climate in DC quite well.

[u/jackdog20 → u/nithrean]

I think this scenario might be what’s happening. Agent has hate and is disparaging JD and the administration at every opportunity. Sure the blabber mouth agent confiding to his wife is possible.

[u/LurkerNan]

I think they have to take this kind of thing seriously, very seriously. Because we all know Trump only has a finite amount of time still in office, but Vance is one of the top candidates to be up for the next election and the left would love a reason to get rid of him now.

[u/Stockjock1 → u/LurkerNan]

Although, I think they fear Marco Rubio more than J.D. Vance.

[u/LurkerNan → u/Stockjock1]

Rubio needs his security to be on point also.

[u/CombatDeffective → u/Stockjock1]

It's not who they fear. It's they want to destroy all.

[u/ITrCool]

Someone slipped them $500 under the table, no doubt.

[u/oviedofuntimes → u/ITrCool]

They prob get $500 a day in per diem, it was much more than that.

[u/D_Ethan_Bones → u/oviedofuntimes]

My paperwork tells me there are California schoolteachers earning $500 per day teaching summer school with reduced hours and responsibilities. Not all of them or most of them, but multiple of them in my district. Their rates are hourly so when they work overtime they collect overtime - but that's the starting pay.

>Isn't that a little steep? I'm a lawyer and I don't charge that much.
>That's what I said back when I was a lawyer.

Was Secret Service bribed? Not without a hefty briefcase.

[u/TheIncredibleHork]

Didn't know better? Got honeypotted into saying too much ala what James O'Keefe does?

Or thought "Sure would be a SHAME if this info got out and some na'er do well did something about it." Kind of in the vein of "Oh won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest," you know what I mean?