[CTRL] Secret Service May Ask Agents To Pledge Silence

[Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard]

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Saturday July 3 1:44 PM ET

Secret Service May Ask Agents To Pledge Silence

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Secret Service is considering requiring new
agents to sign a pledge that they will not discuss what they see and hear
while protecting a president, Director Brian Stafford said Saturday.

After at least one former agent discussed ex-intern Monica Lewinsky with
reporters and a retired member of President John Kennedy's protective detail
revealed Kennedy's sexual trysts to author Seymour Hersh, the Secret Service
is reviewing a pledge of confidentiality as a condition of employment.

``In over 100 years, we never felt that there was a need to do that,''
Stafford said in an interview with the CBS News program ``Saturday
Morning.''

``It was just a code that we all thought and felt very strongly about and
didn't feel that we had to reduce it to paper,'' he said. ``But we are
now.''

``Our legal people are now looking at a confidentiality statement which new
employees will be required to sign,'' Stafford said.

Stafford, who became director four months ago, also told CBS that he will
urge Congress to exempt agents from being subpoenaed and forced to testify,
as they were by independent counsel Kenneth Starr as part of his probe of
the Lewinsky affair.

``When there's a new president, if they don't trust us, they don't have
confidence in us, then we won't be able to do our job well and they will
push us back,'' Stafford said.
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