Secret Service downplays report of petition warning of ‘inadequate training’: ‘Our people are exceptional’

The Secret Service is downplaying a study that a petition is circulating internally raising concerns astir caller incidents linked to "inadequate training," telling Fox News Digital that "our radical are exceptional." 

Bloomberg White House newsman Jennifer Jacobs tweeted Thursday that the petition has astatine slightest 39 signatures and calls for a legislature probe into the Secret Service. 

She said the papers "flags concerns astir ‘a fig of caller Secret Service incidents indicative of inadequate training,’ a treble modular successful disciplinary actions, and a vulnerability ‘to imaginable insider threats’ that could airs a hazard to U.S. nationalist security."

But Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News Digital successful a connection that "It's evident that this anonymous petitioner does not embody the U.S. Secret Service's values of work implicit self." 

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Members of the Secret Service apprehension a clime activistic connected Pennsylvania Avenue successful beforehand of the White House successful Washington, D.C. connected Sept. 7, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

"Our bureau is comprised of talented professionals from assorted walks of beingness who are dedicated to safeguarding the continuity of the presidency and the U.S. fiscal system. Our spot comes from our diversity, successful the knowledge, skills, experience, and position each worker brings," Guglielmi said. 

"Our radical are exceptional, and we are incredibly arrogant to telephone them members of the U.S. Secret Service," helium added. 

In precocious April, Fox News Digital reported that a U.S. Secret Service cause with Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail was removed from their duty aft engaging successful a carnal combat with different agents portion connected duty. 

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U.S. Secret Service vehicles are parked connected Pennsylvania Ave. adjacent the White House, connected April 14, 2024, successful Washington, D.C.  ( Al Drago/Getty Images)

"At astir 9 a.m. April 22, a U.S. Secret Service peculiar cause supporting the Vice President’s departure from Joint Base Andrews began displaying behaviour their colleagues recovered distressing," Guglielmi said successful a connection astatine the clip shared with Fox News Digital. 

He added, "The cause was removed from their duty portion aesculapian unit were summoned. The Vice President was astatine the Naval Observatory erstwhile this incidental occurred and determination was nary interaction connected her departure from Joint Base Andrews. 

Secret Service members await the accomplishment of President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden astatine Suwannee County Airport Landing Zone successful Live Oak, Florida, successful September 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

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The agent, who had been acting "erratically," began punching the peculiar cause successful complaint aft getting connected apical of him, Real Clear Politics reported. 

Fox News’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report.