Trump-hating ‘Antifa’ and online extremist is a US Secret Service Agent

[mountaineer]

Exclusive: Trump-hating ‘Antifa’ and online extremist is a US Secret Service Agent
November 14, 2024

White Plains, Maryland – An antifascist Redditor and self-proclaimed “anarcho-communist” has been unmasked as a Special Agent for the United States Secret Service (USSS).

Thanks to publicly available information, counter-extremism researchers with the Justice Report can confidently name 30-year-old Thomas Jack “TJ” Hamil—an 1811 employee for the Department of Homeland Security—as a lifelong anarchist, left-wing extremist, and a devout follower of “Antifascist” shock jock Robert Evans.

Hamil—who began his career in law enforcement as a uniformed officer for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in 2017—would climb the institutional ladder and achieve the lofty rank of federal agent, recently relocating to White Plains, Maryland, to begin “Phase 2” of his USSS duties.

According to an informational page maintained by the USSS, Phase 2 of an agent’s career is described as a 6-year-period where agents are placed in a “permanent protective division” in Washington, DC, where they are tasked with conducting intelligence, investigating financial crimes, and safeguarding key figures of the regime, up to and including the President of the United States.

In a long string of politically incoherent posts, the young Secret Service officer—who admits to being on the autism spectrum—would continue his tirade, referring to the electorate as “chodes” and label the “most pro-Jewish president in American history“—as well as the 75 million+ people who cast their vote for him—as so-called “Nazi’s.” ...
https://justicereport.news/2024/11/14/exclusive-trump-hating-antifa-and-online-extremist-is-a-us-secret-service-agent/


A graduate from a private school in Illinois, Special Agent Hamil is a hardcore punk listener, horror buff, video gamer, and reader of anarcho-communist philosophy. His hatred of so-called “Nazi’s” extends to anyone perceived to be even tepidly against his radical beliefs. Photo: Facebook, Justice Report.

[mountaineer]

Susan Crabtree
@susancrabtree
🚨SCOOP: The Secret Service is investigating an agent who has been accused of having Antifa and anarchist ties and who allegedly lashed out at Trump as someone with "Nazi-ass policies" and called his supporters "chodes" and "neo-Nazis" in several social media posts.

The posts clearly call into question whether this agent  can provide adequate protection to President-elect Trump during the transition of power, the inauguration, and afterward. The agent, from what I've been told, has about six years of experience and is in Phase 2 of his career is assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris's protective detail.

After internet sleuths and an online publication called http://justicereport.net published details of what they described are the agent's online posts, a Secret Service spokesman tells me that agency officials heard about the accusations and have "modified" the agent's duties and launched an internal probe into the social media posts.

“The U.S. Secret Service recently became aware of alleged social media posts by an employee that have prompted an internal review," Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugilielmi tells me in a statement. "We are taking this matter seriously, and this employee's assigned duties have been modified while this review is underway." 

"These comments in no way represent the views or values of the Secret Service, and we maintain and enforce rigorous codes of conduct governing employee actions both on and off duty," he added.

After the social media posts came to light, the agent deleted his accounts so any internal agency review would need to verify those deleted accounts as his. That's apparently why he hasn't been disciplined more severely and swiftly, although there's a precedent, which I describe below, for disciplining agents while continuing to pay them until they hit certain retirement dates so they can retire with full pay and retirement benefits.

The controversy over the agent's anti-Trump social media posts as the nation prepares for a transfer of power to Trump echo a similar incident in early 2017, just before Trump's first inauguration. At that time, a senior female agent, Kerry O'Grady, suggested in an October 2016 Facebook post that she didn't want to take a bullet for Trump if he was elected. I broke that story in early 2017.  O'Grady was the leader of the Denver Field Office at the time.

O'Grady was not disciplined for the Facebook post until after I wrote this piece:
https://washingtonexaminer.com/news/1823432/senior-secret-service-agent-suggests-she-wouldnt-take-a-bullet-for-trump/


The Secret Service placed her on paid administrative leave for more than two and a half years, giving her what amounted to a paid vacation until she reached a retirement milestone in early 2019 even though she had reached her settlement with the Department of Homeland Security in Oct. 2017.

Here's that store that I wrote in 2019:
https://realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/01/anti-trump_secret_service_agent_leaving_with_pay_pension_139615.html

http://Justicereport.net has described the agent who made the Nazi references about Trump and his supporters as a devout follower of "antifascist shock jock Robert Evans." Evans, a former editor at the humor website http://Cracked.com, has written for an online outlet called Bellingcat and has operated several podcasts. In mid-2020, Evans joined a class-action lawsuit against the City of Portland for police use of force against the Antifa-led protests responding to the death of George Floyd.

The issues surrounding the latest accusations related to an agent's inappropriate online media posts raises serious and ongoing questions about the internal vetting and hiring standards at the Secret Service. Historically, USSS leadership handled hiring decisions, but in recent years human resource officials with no protective experience in the agency have been making the hiring decisions with DEI priorities taking precedent over other security qualifications/experience, according to several sources in the Secret Service community.

I'm told the agency, over the last decade, has dramatically lowered standards for drug use and physical fitness issues that previously would have been disqualifying. The agency also doesn't require mental health screening for prospective recruits, an issue that several whistleblowers have repeatedly raised a problem in an era marked by lower hiring standards.

I've been working on this story all week, but @MrAndyNgo, an intrepid reporter who provided outstanding coverage of the 2020 Antifa riots in Portland and Seattle was able to break the issue about the agent's alleged social media posts late Friday afternoon, citing "internet sleuths" who first discovered the incendiary online comments.
1:24 PM · Nov 16, 2024

[mountaineer]

More from Andy Ngo:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1857561514338824420

[Wingnut]

So much for a complete vetting process

[240B]

For months people have said that there must be a mole in Trump's SS bodyguards.
I guess we now know who that might be, and there quite likely may be few more.

[andy58-in-nh]

For months people have said that there must be a mole in Trump's SS bodyguards.
I guess we now know who that might be, and there quite likely may be few more.

We've all been wondering how Butler, PA happened.

[Kamaji]

So much for a complete vetting process

Exactly.  One might almost say “what vetting process?”

[deb]

That’s why Bongino needs to be put in charge of the Secret Service.

[SZonian]

As someone who works in the MIC, I have had more security related "rectal exams" than this "chode" and many like him. Yet, the USSS is failing to perform even the slightest amount of due diligence in vetting their people. I imagine it's because the auntifahs are not considered a "legitimate" terrorist organization, and so, this kind of garbage can be deemed "acceptable".

I am not in charge nor tasked with the safety of actual people, just "stuff", yet, I undergo periodic reviews, interviews and occasionally a lie detector test. If I chose to endorse or support Proud Boys, or the Jan 6 protestors or similar, and it was discovered, my clearance and thus my employment would be gone in a heartbeat. Last I knew, PB's weren't about overthrowing the USG and pursuing anarcho-communism like the auntifahs. 

[mountaineer]

That’s why Bongino needs to be put in charge of the Secret Service.

[Bigun]

We've all been wondering how Butler, PA happened.

  Now we can start wondering if he is the only one.

[mountaineer]

Now we can start wondering if he is the only one.

Yeah, there's a thought. Are there a dozen - two dozen? -other Hamils in the USSS? Heaven help us.

[Bigun]

Yeah, there's a thought. Are there a dozen - two dozen? -other Hamils in the USSS? Heaven help us.

Sad to say it, but I would bet big $$$ that there are.

[Kamaji]

Now we can start wondering if he is the only one.

You and I both know he's not the only one.

[Bigun]

You and I both know he's not the only one.

 

[Smokin Joe]

We've all been wondering how Butler, PA happened.

Butler is one thing. Poor security in a known venue, scheduled event.

But the Golf outing that wasn't on the schedule? With well over 12 hours lead time? That in the one that really raises a red flag. Someone was tipped off by someone else, on the detail or communicating with a mole there.

[Kamaji]

Butler is one thing. Poor security in a known venue, scheduled event.

But the Golf outing that wasn't on the schedule? With well over 12 hours lead time? That in the one that really raises a red flag. Someone was tipped off by someone else, on the detail or communicating with a mole there.

[verga]

So much for a complete vetting process

20+ years ago I worked for a company that manufactured parts for the MX and Peace Keeper Missile systems.  The proctological exam I had to go though to get clearance to do the work was mind boggling. My supervisor told me that it was "Expedited" and took several months. I don't know if he was jerking chain or not.