In a letter to members of a congressional oversight committee, Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson said local agents of the U.S. Secret Service asked his officers to fake a warrant last year, News Channel 5 reports.
Phil Williams has the details:
In the Nashville case, a Secret Service agent made a frantic call for backup to Nashville police after he and another agent went to the home of a Nashville man, investigating threatening comments on Facebook about the President. The man who posted them had refused to let the agents into his house.
"He shoved the door in our face and went around the corner. Looks like, we're not sure if he ... possibly he had a gun in his hands," the agent told a 911 operator.
In a letter that he first sent to Secret Service headquarters, the Nashville police chief recounted what happened.
"The resident refused to come outside and shouted back, 'Show me your warrant,'" Anderson wrote.
So "one of the agents then asked a [police] sergeant to 'wave a piece of paper' in an apparent effort to dupe the resident into thinking that they indeed had a warrant."
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned earlier this month amidst multiple reports of security lapses by the agency charged with protecting the president.
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