NEW YORK, New York — President Obama, disregarding a government panel’s recommendation to appoint an outsider, has chosen the former chief of his personal detail to head the embattled Secret Service, a White House official said.
Obama plans to name Joseph Clancy to the post, three months after Clancy assumed the role of interim director amid a shakeup in the Secret Service ranks.
Joseph “Joe” P. Clancy is an American law enforcement official.
He is the acting Director of the United States Secret Service.
Clancy served as head of the agency’s presidential protection division until 2011, when he retired and became director of corporate security for Comcast.
He was appointed to the position following the resignation of Julia Pierson on October 1, 2014.
During his work on the presidential protection details he was able to achieve a close bond with President Barack Obama, and is well regarded by the White House.
Clancy was part of the Secret Service protective detail that jogged with President Bill Clinton in the early days of the Presidency of Bill Clinton.
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