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Obama Secret Service Agent Retires, Will Now Run for MD Senate Seat as a Repub.

Obama Secret Service Agent Retires, Will Now Run for MD Senate Seat as a Repub.Daniel Bongino has spent the last 12 years as one of the most prestigious law enforcement officials in the country. Bongino, also a NYPD veteran, has been serving the country as a Secret Service agent. During his career, he’s been a part of overseas advance teams, investigated financial crime, and protected foreign dignitaries. In fact, he‘s even been a part of President Obama’s protective detail. But now, he’s trading in his badge and pistol for a platform. That‘s because he’s running — as a Republican — to become Maryland’s next U.S. senator.

Considering Bongino retired from the agency only earlier this month, his foray into politics is turning some heads. Secret Service agents are largely viewed as apolitical, and the agency frowns on such sudden moves. Marc Ambinder over at National Journal explains:

At an agency that stresses the silence and political neutrality of its agents, Bongino’s announcement is raising eyebrows. It’s not unusual for federal law-enforcement agents to run for office after they retire, but the Secret Service frowns upon former agents who make sudden turns to politics. The agency has fought to give presidential protective division agents legal standing to keep them from testifying about high-level conversations they overhear, lest they lose the trust of the commander in chief.

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Bongino has spent most of his career in government. He was a New York City police officer for four years before joining the Secret Service. He spent 12 years protecting presidents, candidates, and world leaders, advancing overseas trips, standing post, and investigating financial fraud. He transferred off Obama’s detail six months ago and spent the past five months working out of the agency’s Baltimore field office. He resigned earlier this month and started his own security consulting company. While an agent, he cofounded a mixed martial arts accessory company called Friction MMA.

Bongino’s campaign manager will be Brian Murphy, who unsuccessfully ran for Maryland’s Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010. In a note on his Facebook page, Murphy never mentions Bongino by name, but still explains his credentials:

As a child in New York City, he saw firsthand the impact of well intentioned but fatally flawed government programs. Today, the candidate is a loving husband and father, married to a first generation immigrant whose life epitomizes the American Dream. He has a Master’s degree in Psychology and an MBA, and has enjoyed a sixteen year career in law enforcement, including four years with the New York City Police Department and twelve years with the United States Secret Service.

While with the NYPD, he helped pioneer the use of data to track serial and violent criminals. While with the Secret Service, he traveled to 27 countries in the service of Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama. He can speak with authority on the extraordinary nature of our great nation, and the universal love and respect we enjoy. As an agent in the Secret Service’s Baltimore Field Office, he was instrumental in the break-up of one of the largest consumer fraud rings in Maryland history.

Earlier this month, he left the Secret Service in order to continue his career of service to our nation in the United States Senate. I am proud to call him my friend, and I look forward to calling him my Senator. And next Tuesday, I look forward to formally and properly introducing him and his family.

Bongino does have an official Twitter account, but it currently links to a non-existent web page.

The Secret Service declined comment to Ambinder about Bongino’s candidacy.

Comments (102)

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:47pm

    Hey Blaze: please fix this site….all story information goes to the right of the screen
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    word
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    Like this all day!!!!!

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  • Geopatriot
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:37pm

    I hope Daniel is successful and wins the seat as Marylands representative. I’m sure he has heard his share of BS in that time. I’m sure he knows how to use what he knows without compromising what he knows.

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  • spirited
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:34pm

    Secret Service?

    >Not any more!

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  • Atrocities
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:15pm

    Go tired of the Obama racism crap and decided to stand up for what he believes in. More power to him! Hope he can win. (Unless he is a closes liberal posing as a Rep… then I hope he fails.)

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  • cbazan3
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:12pm

    Yet another leftist infiltrator.

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  • thetang
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:10pm

    Good luck Daniel,and may God protect you and your family?

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  • hanky
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:01pm

    Is anyone else having problems with the words of the article. When it finishes loading it goes into a column with only a single word. I do not have issues with other sites.

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  • schweizer
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:39pm

    Evidently the left is afraid of this guy, they keep corrupting this article so that you can’t read it, or may a mole on the Blaze staff.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:10pm

    Yeah, add me to the long list of people who wishes maybe this guy (anybody) would come out and be whistleblowers about the corruption in the White House. I just got through reading about what the White House Insider guy Ulsterman, reporting about Obama’s involvement back just before he became senator. If true, how horrible. But the informer says he was too afraid to say anything – for fear he’d end up dead – so he sent it to Ulsterman (who also reports what an alleged WH Insider Operative has been spilling the beans about) – whom he knows is “protected”. http://southcapitolstreet.com/2011/02/15/the-ulsterman-report-sex-and-murder-in-the-land-of-obama-2/
    The thing is if true, people are afraid for their lives so they keep quiet. So I just pray that whatever needs to be exposed will be. According to Ulsterman, there are many up there in the WH who are hoping for a one-termer for Obama bc they realize what a disaster he is for the country but are afraid. It’s interesting about this guy…..we’ll see.

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  • Bushie
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:03pm

    So now he wants to be a double agent.

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  • CitizenVetUSA
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:00pm

    Maybe he is Secret RINO Service!

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:53pm

    The President is a Citizen just like anyone else and we have elevated them to Kings! The agent has the right to run, but I would not vote for him, a lot of these folks are running as conservs because they need to get elected then in office they quickly change.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:49pm

    im not surprised i predict an exodus from this administration and keep an eye on the doj when holder gets thrown under the bus ( it will happen ) then it will get VERY interesting

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  • jim
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:42pm

    My hat’s off to all Secret Service, regardless of politics… imagine if it was your job to take a bullet for THIS president!

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    • ipaevavu
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 11:45pm

      Irregardless of how i may feel about obama, i cannot be pro-life, and wish that something happend to him. if you are a person of principal you wouldnt even think about it, you would just take the bullet.

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  • i want the truth
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:39pm

    I hope he exposes Obummer!! Please let us know what is going on behind close doors! :)

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    • terryinlasvegas
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 5:02am

      Only a Secret Service member could possibly sneak a tape recorder into the White House. If this guy has something on tape…

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  • ofallon
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:20pm

    Good luck Daniel.

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  • BuckRussell
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:18pm

    Cue the WH attack dogs…..

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  • Going John Galt
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:11pm

    The timing seems strange to me.

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  • Ironeagle
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:04pm

    Wait until his tell all book comes out. He’ll have to wait the required (2 years?), but this guy has it made.

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  • fitsgibbons
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:04pm

    He’s hopefully not a “POSER”.

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  • JCoolman
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:55pm

    Very interesting. Keep an eye on this man.

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  • Patrick in AZ
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:54pm

    As long as he holds in confidence, that which he learned while on the inside, I don’t see any issue with him running. As much as I would like him to share publicly everything he knows about Dear Reader, there is such thing as honor and I believe that the Secret Service hold honor very closely.

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  • TOPOFTHEGAME
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:53pm

    Go Daniel Go………We need more conservative senators…………… Check out what Executive Order #11490…… HAS WAITING FOR US

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:06pm

      @Top
      Rex 84, Rex 51 , four years worth of executive orders all in a nice little globalist Governance bread crumb trail. I’ve been post about these puppets for years, not many people actually go read for themselves or a lot more people would drop the political PARTIES game. Yes we are toast.
      Lucky this Bongino is not CFR, I just checked.
      BTW the http://www.CFR.org is where all the Globalists make plans and hang out.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:08pm

      Was looking at it. Was there a particualar area of interest you are referring to? Most of it looks like the actual protocol has yet to be sunnsteined. I was a little thrown off by the use of prisoners to help relieve situations.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:22pm

      @slap
      Read all the executive orders under the last four presidents, it gives a clear and startling picture of our future, marshal law and forced slave labor under FEMA and a board of ten regional governors, no congress for six months minimum, no oversight on presidential power, just flat out dismantling of America, the constitution, and tyranny.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:28pm

      Thank you for the advice but unlike the people who write the “executive orders” I have to work for a living. I have however delved into your suggested reading of this exec order. Was just wondering if there was a particular area other than the entire order that you were talking about.

      Anyways, I‘m gonna drink three five hour energy’s and try to digest all that this glorius executive order has to offer.

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  • American Saint
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:53pm

    So he’s supposed to keep an apolitical view? Someone should tell that to our Justice Department.

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  • OneofMany
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:53pm

    Maybe, just maybe he saw some things that make him SICK TO HIS STOMACH and cannot stand by and watch this country go to the toilet without at least trying to do something??

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Well Danny, I would not expect an endorsement from King Obama. Unless you’re a RINO of course, then he would love to help you raise money for your campaign.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:59pm

      I don’t blame him, I wouldn’t take a bullet for Obama either. My guess would be very few in the Secret Service would right now.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:59pm

      Good for him. But don’t expect that he will be revealing any inside info.

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    • American Saint
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:00pm

      That was my first thought too. To come out so quick against an “understood” rule of staying apolitical tells me he saw things that scared him.

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    • MAJORMINOR
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:02pm

      Could not agree more…we need to have Statesmen that stand up for what is right and fix what is broken…not politicians that will tell you what to hear to get your vote. A statesman will stand up to the slings and arrows and do what is in the best interest of the country.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:02pm

      I would hazard to guess that most of these Secret Service people are conservative in their views. I had a cousin in Secret Service and he was — but he never really “talked” about it .. it was how he lived him life and what he did after he retired (like this gentleman) that showed his conservativism.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:06pm

      I smell another Scott Brown…..hmmmm

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:09pm

      I wonder if he got tired of having to carry around Moochelle’s feed bag. That sucker must be HEAVY.

      Plus, why on earth would he want to be a bullet catcher for Odumbo? Who in their right mind would?

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:12pm

      It will be interesting to hear his platform…Hopefully he isn’t Rino but no one will know till he speaks his views….

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:30pm

      God I hope he does win; he has seen first hand the madness and darkness of this administration, and hopefully he can explain it to all to understand and take legal and ethical action against. God protect him and his family from the jaws and forces of hades itself that is to come after him now.

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    • country_hick
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:32pm

      Blackhawk, you would be wrong. They protect the office of the President not the man. It doesn’t matter who is in the office.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:00pm

      country_hick

      You don’t really believe that do you? That may be what the policy is but if you did a survey of the officers you would find something different. Did you miss this part of the article? “He transferred off Obama’s detail six months ago and spent the past five months working out of the agency’s Baltimore field office.” He no doubt transferred off Obama’s detail because of what I mentioned in my first post. He wouldn’t take a bullet for him.

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:21pm

      I can’t wait till the Obamanauts start digging up dirt to try to make him look bad

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:23pm

      This is a bad idea. Look how G.Bush the Sr. turned out…

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    • Entropy
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:41pm

      The SS guys, for the most part, are very patriotic americans. I am gratified the this person sees it fit to run for office and to help correct the error of our ways. God bless him and his family. We need him.

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 7:15pm

      Obama is enough to turn anyone or anything into a Repulblican.

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    • nptden
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 7:18pm

      Well, maybe we will finally understand why Obama looks glassy-eyed and stoned.

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    • bjc535
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 7:43pm

      I will trust this guy when i hear more about him….everyone is so quick to jump on the obama haters bandwagons, maybe it’s a plant….just sayin’ he is all “secret” and stuff…..lol

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    • Beatrice
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 8:33pm

      Or maybe, he, Mr. Bongino, is an American Patriot who truly loves this Country and who served it with great respect and most honorably!

      Personally, I loved this story! It gives me hope that all is not lost. That, maybe, just maybe, “We The People” can prevail to save our Country from these thugs/enemies who have fraudulently garnered the trust of the people.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 8:38pm

      There‘s an expression ’If only I could be a fly on the wall to listen in……” Well, this guy actually was the fly on the wall! May he take what he has learned about ethics from his job and become a true born-again for truth and justice in government. He probably has seen the dirty underside of politics and hopefully will learn from it.

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    • eddvoss
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 10:32pm

      It will not matter what he saw or heard. He took an oath and he will live up to it I am sure. You do not get into the SS without a great deal of integrity.

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    • Disnylv
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 11:10pm

      Hum let us see if this is a rouse or serious. We will find out.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 11:32pm

      Just what Maryland needs a Conservative voice…You GO Sir!!!

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    • AmericanLass
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 11:48pm

      Ah, but will he tell tales. I don’t think so.

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    • JoeAmerica
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 12:50am

      I don’t think if he saw something that made him sick he would try to save the country by become a state senator. He might be able to save that state but not the country. What more likely has happened is that he sees the great and wild times all these politicians have and wants a piece of the pie. Thats and he’s probably a statesman and is looking for a less stressful statesman jobs

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 1:06am

      This brought tears to my eyes! I’ve been praying for people on the INSIDE to take a stand to protect our republic and this is the fist example!

      BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      BRING YOUR FRIENDS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 2:14am

      “At an agency that stresses the silence and political neutrality of its agents,”
      Yeah right, I can see obama knowingly allowing anyone that is not a liberal commie to protect him. I would be willing to bet that obama would get rid of any secret service agent that wasn’t willing to put him over the nation and our freedoms. In fact, I would like to find out if obama requires his SS agents to get down on their knees and bow over and over while chanting “All Hail Our Messiah” over and over.

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    • country_hick
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:30am

      Blackhawk;

      UD or SA, from PPD down to the smallest Domicile, they will protect the Office regardless of the man occupying it.

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    • Observer
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 7:36am

      Thank God he isn’t a community organizer ……………. colour is blue.

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    • Highland
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 11:09am

      I’d like to see him “speak with authority” on the abuses he saw within the White House, like Gary Aldrich did of the Clinton regime.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 11:16pm

      RINO plant !!! along with Brown, Snowe and Murkowski…

      another strategy to get your way..He’ll get Bama money !!

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