(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Three Secret Service officials were removed from the federal agency’s headquarters and placed on administrative leave amid a shocking investigation into alleged leaks to the media, several news outlets reported Tuesday evening.
RealClearPolitics journalist Susan Crabtree first reported Tuesday that the officials were walked out of their offices and placed on a banned list pending the criminal investigation. The FBI and CIA were part of the investigation, the outlet added.
🚨🚨@RCPolitics EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: Three Secret Service officials/agents were walked out of their offices on Monday and made "do not admits" as part of a criminal investigation into leaked classified information to the media, according to two sources familiar with the… pic.twitter.com/96wlHSJ152
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) August 25, 2026
CNN, in a separate report, noted that one of the removed officials is USSS Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi.
Guglielmi joined the federal agency in March 2022 following a long career as a police spokesperson for the Chicago, Baltimore and Fairfax County police departments. He became the subject of controversy after the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. There, he falsely denied that the Biden administration withheld security resources from Trump’s campaign—a denial that the agency later had to walk back.
CNN said sources revealed that the three sanctioned officials had their security clearances and work cellphones revoked. All three reportedly worked in the agency’s communications department.
An agency spokesperson did not name the individuals in a press statement but confirmed that three employees had been placed on administrative leave pending the probe.
“Three non-law enforcement personnel at the U.S. Secret Service have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into potential misconduct. Per policy, this incident is being investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility. We are unable to comment further at this time.”
Both RealClearPolitics and CNN noted that the suspensions come as the USSS investigates potential leaks of sensitive security information concerning President Donald Trump to the media.
Most recently, media reports revealed that Trump switched planes in Turkey due to purported Iranian threats. The move was made at the request of intelligence and Secret Service officials. Despite the sensitive and secretive nature of the operation.
The Secret Service has been embroiled in numerous scandals this year alone.
For instance, a Secret Service agent and two others were criminally charged for nearly paddling someone to death in a fraternity hazing ritual. The charges against that agent came on the heels of another agent being put on leave for leaking info about Vice President JD Vance’s travel schedule.
Additionally, another Secret Service guard on Vance’s detail was recently arrested for a drug deal with an undercover cop. Crabtree reported the arrest in July, saying that she’s withholding the agent’s name “until more details emerge about the alleged drug-related arrest.”
A mother earlier, a Secret Service officer was reportedly in May arrested for public masturbation at a DoubleTree hotel near the Miami airport. And in April, a married Secret Service agent was revealed to have been having an affair with an OnlyFans star and making pornographic videos with her. Around the same time, ABC News revealed that a Secret Service trainee was arrested for spying on his roommate, also an agent-in-training, with a hidden camera.
Before that, a Secret Service agent protecting former First Lady Jill Biden shot himself in the buttocks last month at the Philadelphia International Airport.
And earlier in the month, Crabtree reported that agent Myosoty Perez, who is a lesbian, has been suspended and is under investigation for marrying a foreign national—possibly an illegal immigrant—without declaring it. Perez was one of the agents responsible for nearly getting President Donald Trump killed at his July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Additionally, in January a Secret Service recruit shot and killed a 16-year-old in Tamarac, Florida. The 16-year-old victim was identified as Orlando Wedderburn. A woman was also grazed. The Secret Service recruit, for his part, is claiming self-defense.
According to Crabtree, Secret Service Director Sean Curran is receiving internal criticism for not doing enough to eliminate the agency’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies, which were implemented starting in the Obama era.
Meanwhile, the agency is looking to hire 4,000 new employees by 2028.
