Secret Service Agent Mark Connolly, left, on a Presidential visit to Ireland.

UPDATE: Inside sources say that the Secret Service Agent driving the vehicle wasn’t drinking and was the designated driver for the passenger who was drinking at a going-away party for a staffer. The security scene was over; the rubber tube tipped over by the vehicle was undamaged; the incident may have simply been a case of law enforcement rivalry.

From The Washington Post

The Obama administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of the president’s protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party last week, an agency official said Wednesday.

Officers on duty who witnessed the March 4 incident wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests, according to a current and a former government official familiar with the incident. But the officers were ordered by a supervisor on duty that night to let the agents go home, said these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal matter.

The episode presents an early test for the Secret Service’s new director, Joseph P. Clancy, who was appointed by Obama last month after a string of security lapses at the White House and other embarrassing missteps and had vowed to restore the agency’s once-stellar reputation ….MORE

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