Secret Service Marks Its Own Communications Chief “Do Not Admit” Amid Growing Leak Probe

Pentagon officials stripped Frank Kendall's security clearance this month over Air Force One leaks.

Now the Secret Service has marked its own communications chief a security threat.

Two more officials got walked out with him, and the FBI wants to know why.

Guglielmi Loses Clearance and Access in One Afternoon

Anthony Guglielmi ran communications for the United States Secret Service.

Monday, he got escorted out of the agency's Washington headquarters like a trespasser.

Two other officials from his own communications shop went with him.

All three lost their security clearances on the spot.

All three lost access to their government devices.

All three got flagged "do not admit," a designation normally reserved for people the agency considers a threat to walk back through the door.

Newsweek and Human Events independently confirmed the same three names and the same "do not admit" designation within hours of the story breaking.

That is not the pattern of a single-outlet rumor. That is a story multiple newsrooms chased down and verified separately.

The Secret Service Office of Professional Responsibility opened the investigation into what it labeled "potential misconduct."

That is bureaucratic language for something much bigger.

FBI and CIA personnel are now involved in the inquiry, according to RealClearPolitics reporting.

Local police do not call in the CIA over a paperwork violation.

Classified Intelligence on a Threat to Trump's Plane Is at the Center

The investigation traces back to intelligence surrounding President Trump's departure from Turkey on July 8.

Officials had received word of a potential Iranian plot to target Air Force One with a surface to air missile.

The response involved Trump transferring from Air Force One to a military C-32A, using a catering truck to move between aircraft while the original plane flew out as a decoy.

NSA, CIA, and Turkish intelligence were all reportedly part of that operation.

Someone leaked the details anyway.

Guglielmi is not a stranger to credibility problems.

He publicly called an earlier RealClearPolitics report about diverted Secret Service resources at a Biden event "very wrong."

Senator Chuck Grassley's investigation later corroborated that very report.

He also denied that Sean Curran, now the Secret Service director, had requested extra security protection that was rebuffed, a denial that subsequent reporting undercut.

A communications chief who gets caught minimizing the truth twice does not get the benefit of the doubt a third time.

This Is Not the First Leak Inside Trump's Protective Bubble

This is the second Secret Service leak scandal to surface this year alone.

In January, an agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance's detail was caught on undercover video sharing protective formations, shift schedules, and real-time travel locations, reportedly with a romantic interest.

Deputy Director Matthew Quinn responded by declaring the agency has "no tolerance for any behavior that could potentially compromise the safety, privacy or trust of our protectees."

The agency then ordered agency-wide anti-espionage retraining.

Clearly, that retraining did not reach everyone.

What This Leak Probe Actually Means

A security clearance does not get suspended on a hunch, it gets suspended when investigators believe someone had access to something they should not have shared.

Frank Kendall found that out the hard way when the Pentagon pulled his clearance in August over Air Force One disclosures tied to Wall Street Journal reporting.

Kendall denied wrongdoing and walked away with his reputation dinged but his freedom intact.

Guglielmi is in a different category entirely, because the FBI and CIA do not show up for personnel disputes, they show up when someone may have broken federal law by exposing classified counter-assassination planning.

That is the kind of leak that gets people indicted, not reassigned.

Here is what should fire up every American who has watched this unfold since January: the people whose entire job is protecting Donald Trump's life keep getting caught leaking the exact information that could get him killed.

Two leak scandals inside one protective agency in a single year is not bad luck, it is a pattern, and patterns inside the Secret Service after two Trump assassination attempts should worry anyone paying attention.

The bureaucrats who spent years telling America Trump was the threat are now the ones getting frog marched out of federal buildings for compromising his security, and if the FBI's involvement means anything, this is only the beginning of who gets exposed.

Sources:

• Susan Crabtree, "Secret Service Spokesman, Two Others Suspended Amid Leak Probe," RealClearPolitics, August 26, 2026.
• Joe Kovacs, "'Do Not Admit': 3 U.S. Secret Service Officials, Including Top Spokesman, Escorted Out and Stripped of Security Clearances," WND, August 26, 2026.
• "Top Secret Service Spokesman, Two Others Placed on Leave, Stripped of Security Clearances Amid Leak Probe," Human Events, August 26, 2026.
• "Secret Service Agent Assigned to Vance Placed on Leave After Alleged Security Leak," Fox News, January 13, 2026.
• "Pentagon Strips Former Air Force Secretary's Security Clearance Over Alleged Classified Leak About Air Force One," Conservative Institute, August 9, 2026.
• The Gateway Pundit, "Three Secret Service Officials Including Communications Chief Escorted Out and Stripped of Security Clearances Amid Reported Criminal Leak Probe, FBI and CIA Reportedly Involved," August 26, 2026.