VP Harris' Secret Service agent gets removed

A Secret Service agent who was assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris has been removed from that assignment. 

Initially, the identity of the agent was kept confidential, but, the New York Post reports that the agent has now been identified as Michelle Herczeg.

The agent was removed after physically attacking one of her fellow agents.

New details have come to light about Herczeg and the incident, which, according to Real Clear Politics, have raised questions about whether the Secret Service properly looked into her background when it hired her.

What happened?

The Washington Examiner reports that Herczeg was providing security for Harris during her recent departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland when the incident occurred.

Per the outlet:

The Washington Examiner understands that the agent became aggressive with other agents. When the special agent in charge and a detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the agent, a physical altercation ensued. The agent was handcuffed before being withdrawn from service for medical assessment.

Further details have been reported by Real Clear Politics:

Herczeg . . . began acting erratically, grabbing another senior agent’s personal phone and deleting applications on it . . . The other agent, a shift leader, was able to recover his phone and then acted as if nothing had happened. But Herczeg’s . . . then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,” a source told RealClearPolitics.

The Secret Service, in a statement on the matter, called what happened "a medical matter."

"The U.S. Secret Service takes the safety and health of our employees very seriously. As this was a medical matter, we will not disclose any further details," the agency said.

New details about Herczeg

The Post has provided new details about Herczeg. It turns out that she once filed a $1 million gender discrimination lawsuit against Dallas, Texas.

The Post reports:

In December 2016, Herczeg — then a senior corporal with the Dallas Police Department — filed her claim against the city, alleging that she “was targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably,” according to a contemporary report by the Dallas Morning News.

Herczeg, among other things, claimed that "she was retaliated against for reporting sexual harassment and other wrongdoing by Dallas cops."

The lawsuit ended up being dismissed, and her appeals, rejected.

Real Clear Politics reports that this is all "raising questions about whether the [Secret Service] had thoroughly vetted [Herczeg] during her hiring and whether an ongoing push to increase the numbers of women in the service and boost overall workforce staff played a role in her selection."