O'Keefe Media Group somehow found a Secret Service agent, identified as Tomas Escotto, who is assigned to Vice President J.D. Vance’s protective detail. Thinking he was bragging about his work to a pretty woman during a date, Escotto goes into detail about the security shifts, such as the number of agents assigned to Vance, and other secretive information.
“Tomas Escotto proceeds to give our undercover journalist detailed info, with pictures, about the specific methods used to transport and protect the vice president," O’Keefe says of the video.
The agent’s alarming information was bleeped in the O’Keefe video viewed by the public, but his bosses at the Secret Service stated publicly Escotto is under investigation and has been placed on administrative leave.
In a related public statement, Secret Service director Matthew Quinn said Escotto’s recorded conversation was the second time in under a year a Secret Service employee was targeted by what Quinn called the “deceptive tactic” of the citizen-journalist media group.
According to O’Keefe, the video also revealed that Escotto confessed to the young woman he opposes ICE and doesn’t like President Trump, either.
