Brussels police arrested a top security supervisor for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s detail last week.
According to the Washington Examiner, a Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) shift supervisor was arrested at Hotel Amigo in Brussels last week after getting into a fight over the hotel bar hours.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also stayed at Hotel Amigo last week.
The DSS reportedly got into a physical altercation with several police officers and was taken into custody. The DSS was released from custody later after the US Embassy intervened.
The Washington Examiner reported:
A Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) shift supervisor assigned to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s protective detail was arrested by Belgian police at a Brussels hotel last Monday after arguing with hotel staff and fighting with responding police officers. Rubio stayed in that same hotel, Hotel Amigo, later that week while he attended NATO’s foreign ministers summit.
The DSS veteran, whose name the Washington Examiner is withholding, was a senior agent on the DSS advance party to Belgium. That protective advance party was responsible for securing the hotel and conducting final security preparations at the various sites in Brussels for Rubio’s visit.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the Washington Examiner that the agent in question was behaving erratically and became irate when hotel staff refused to re-open the bar beyond its normal opening hours. When staff, including the night manager, attempted to persuade the agent to return to his room, the agent became physically aggressive. Police were then called. The agent then engaged in an altercation with numerous police officers, leading to his arrest. The agent was released from police custody later that day after intervention by the U.S. Embassy.
Four sources told the Washington Examiner that the Secretary’s protective detail is under very severe strain and has been stretched to near breaking point by senior leadership. One source provided explicit examples as to how resources stretches have led to vulnerabilities in the Secretary’s protection. One State Department employee observed that “shift supervisors [on the Secretary of State’s detail] have an incomprehensible workload. They are responsible for all the agents under them, scheduling, evaluations and a preposterous amount of admin work as well performing the actual shift work. They work 6 to 7 days a week. I truly believe this [incident] was the result of incomprehensible strain [the agent] was placed under and, at the very least, [Diplomatic Security Service] owes [the agent] a very fair evaluation of these circumstances in their totality – looking deep into [DSS’] own role [in what happened].”
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