The U.S. Secret Service has another embarrassment on its hands. The agency recently issued an apology to Alicia Powers, a Massachusetts salon owner, following an incident where agents broke into her building and her salon’s bathroom without permission. The agents were tasked with guarding Kamala Harris as she attended a fundraiser. Powers discovered that her building had been accessed without her knowledge or consent when she watched video from her Ring doorbell.
According to Powers, Secret Service agents picked the lock to her salon and entered the premises, using duct tape to cover her security cameras before allowing various people to use the bathroom over a two-hour period. Powers, who had already been informed she needed to close her salon for the event, was not made aware of these additional security measures.
In an interview with Business Insider, Powers expressed her frustration with the situation. “They had a bunch of people in and out of here doing a couple of bomb sweeps – totally understand what they have to do, due to the nature of the situation,” Powers said. “But at that point, my team felt like it was a little bit chaotic, and we just made the decision to close for Saturday.”
The Secret Service has apologized after placing tape over cameras before breaking into a Massachusetts salon to use the bathroom before a Kamala Harris fundraiser.
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Footage from the salon’s security camera supports Powers’ account. The video shows a Secret Service agent approaching the salon’s door with a roll of duct tape. The agent is seen inspecting the locked door and the camera before grabbing a nearby chair to tape over the lens, effectively disabling the camera’s view.
“There were several people in and out for about an hour-and-a-half – just using my bathroom, the alarms going off, using my counter, with no permission,” Powers said.
“And then when they were done using the bathroom for two hours, they left, and left my building completely unlocked, and did not take the tape off the camera,” she added.
The Secret Service told Fox News they have been in contact with Powers. The business owner received an apology from the Secret Service’s Boston office.
“The U.S. Secret Service works closely with our partners in the business community to carry out our protective and investigative missions. The Secret Service has since communicated with the affected business owner,” USSS spokeswoman Melissa McKenzie told Fox News Digital. “We hold these relationships in the highest regard and our personnel would not enter, or instruct our partners to enter, a business without the owner’s permission.”
It sure looks like and sounds like USSS spokeswoman Melissa McKenzi is a total lying “criminal” herself. Powers said she never gave anyone permission to enter or use her property. So much for USSS integrity, If the USSS picked the lock then later apologized to Powers it proves once again the totally blatant dishonesty of the entire government. They do whatever they want and hide behind some bullshit idea that it has to so with national security. Without written permission or an official warrant no private property is to be entered, . PERIOD., That is according to the U.S. Constitution as if that matters to Big Gubmint.
That ‘spokesperson’ (aren’t we ‘required’ to be gender neutral these days?) flat out lied. The agents conducted an ILLEGAL entry of a commercial business AFTER covering the exterior camera (THAT shows intent to commit a crime) – did they learn that tactic from the bats down in Arkansas? At least this time we have (maybe) the head guilty party but it is likely that the decision to commit burglary was actually made on site. And we are supposed to trust them?
Why SS explain actions?