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November 22, 2008 3:25:13 CST



Secret Service Bosses Shared Racist Jokes

Posted May 10, 08 11:45 CDT in Crime & Courts Politics 

(Newser) – Secret Service supervisors exchanged racist remarks in emails made public yesterday in a lawsuit filed by black agents, the New York Times reports. The messages were shared between at least 20 top agents between 2003 and 2005. One anecdote jokes about assassinating Jesse Jackson. And, according to the lawsuit, the head of the Presidential Protective Detail sent a crude joke about interracial sex to a colleague.

A lawyer for the black agents, whose long-running lawsuit charges that they were unfairly denied promotion, said they were "shocked but not surprised" by the evidence of racism high up in the service. Last month, a noose was found hanging in a room used by a black instructor at a Secret Service training center.  

Source New York Times

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U.S. Secret Service agents stand watch as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., April 17.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Secret Service agents follow Hillary Clinton as she arrives at California State University to campaign in Northridge, Calif. Jan. 17.   (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Secret Service agents keep watch as Hillary Clinton campaigns. Internal emails from the service reveal that supervisors shared racist jokes with each other.   (Getty Images )
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