Overview
- The agency confirmed late Tuesday that three non-law-enforcement employees were put on administrative leave while the Office of Professional Responsibility conducts an internal investigation.
- Multiple outlets report that one of the staffers is Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service’s chief of communications, and that all three worked in the agency’s communications office.
- Sources say the employees had their security clearances suspended, lost access to government devices, and were escorted from Secret Service offices and designated as do not admits.
- Some reporting says the FBI and CIA have assisted the inquiry and that investigators are probing possible leaks tied to recent coverage of the president’s departure from Turkey and a separate inquiry into a Vice President J.D. Vance protective-detail leak.
- The suspensions sharpen scrutiny of the agency after past protective failures, raise questions about internal safeguards for classified information, and could prompt further oversight or criminal referrals depending on the investigation’s findings.