NBC News reports 41 Secret Service officials have been disciplined for accessing the sensitive personal data of a “prominent congressional critic.” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced the news Thursday, saying one employee has already resigned while others received a range of punishments from a note in their personnel files to as much as 45-day suspensions without pay. House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has been a vocal critic of the Secret Service in recent years. According to the report, Chaffetz unsuccessfully applied to the Secret Service in 2003. A DHS inspector general report from 2015 found that 41 Secret Service agents accessed Chaffetz’s job application more than 60 times, even though there was “no official need to query Chairman Chaffetz’s name.”
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