A member of Vice President JD Vance’s Secret Service protective detail is under investigation after allegedly leaking sensitive information about the vice president’s travel to a left leaning outlet, according to the agency.
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Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi said the agent, assigned to the Vice Presidential Protective Division, faces both an administrative and a potential criminal inquiry.
“A member of the Vice Presidential Protective Division is the subject of an administrative investigation, and potential criminal inquiry, involving allegations of compromising operational and information security,” Guglielmi said. “While we will not comment on the specifics of this matter, one principle is unequivocal: any conduct that potentially threatens the safety of a protectee will not be tolerated.”
The agent is suspected of feeding details to MS Now, the rebranded former MSNBC outlet, for a mid-July report claiming Vance’s security detail was frustrated by his personal travel arrangements. The story disclosed then upcoming plans for the vice president to fly by helicopter with his son to a golf lesson at Joint Base Andrews, a plan the outlet said was altered after publication. The agent has reportedly been placed on administrative leave.
A senior administration official defended the arrangement, telling the Washington Examiner that flying Marine Two to Andrews, which has its own golf facility, lets Vance and his young child reach a secure military installation without shutting down a public course or tying up local police for a motorcade. The official noted the short hop from the vice president’s residence is one of the most routine flights Marine Two makes.
Vance and second lady Usha Vance have spoken publicly about minimizing the disruption their security presence causes ordinary Americans, particularly at church. In an interview on CBS’s Sunday Morning, Vance explained the couple deliberately times their arrival to avoid inconveniencing other worshippers.
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“We try to go to smaller churches and we try to get there exactly on time, because if we get there 10 minutes earlier, then they mag everybody, and then it’s just a nightmare for everybody else,” Vance said. “So you try to obviously take your kids to church, but you also try to do it in a way that doesn’t inconvenience everybody. That’s very important to us.”
The leak investigation lands amid what Secret Service leadership calls an unprecedented threat environment. The agency has logged roughly 10,000 threat related cases in 2026, a 40% jump over last year, according to Director Sean Curran.
“The environment has become very volatile, and that’s just across the board,” Curran said. “The threat picture and environment is as large as I’ve ever seen it.”
The case is the second security related personnel matter to surface at the White House in recent days, following news that a teleprompter staffer was placed on unpaid leave amid an insider trading probe tied to a prediction market platform.
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Vance’s office declined to comment, referring inquiries to the Secret Service.
