A Freedom of Information Act request revealed that from March 1, 2020 to March 9, 2021, 881 unnamed agency members contracted the virus.
Nearly 900 U.S. Secret Service members tested positive for COVID-19 between March 2020 and March 2021, documents obtained by a watchdog group show.
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Citizens for Responsibility (CREW) revealed that from March 1, 2020 to March 9, 2021, 881 unnamed agency members contracted the virus.
Privacy concerns prevented CREW from obtaining the identities of special agents who tested positive, their assignments, or when and where they tested positive, yet 447 were designated as special agents, according to CREW.
Meanwhile, there were “249 members of the Uniformed Division, 131 working in Administrative, Professional, Technical Positions, 12 Investigative Protection Officers and 12 Technical Security Investigators.”
CREW announced Oct. 5 that it had submitted the FOIA request, arguing that the Trump administration was putting members’ health at risk by holding rallies amid a global pandemic. The watchdog group further maintains that the former president “appeared to be deliberately putting the lives of Secret Service agents at risk in order to portray himself as tougher.”
The group cited rallies, Trump’s adult childrens’ travel, as well as the former president’s decision to ride in a Motorcade with members while he was being treated for COVID-19 at The Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The Washington Post reported in August last year that dozens of Secret Service members became ill after rallies over a two-month period.
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