USA · 23 July, 2026 · 3 min read
Secret Service Puts JD Vance Detail Agent On Administrative Leave Over Travel Plans Leak
Secret Service agent on Vance's detail placed on administrative leave amid internal review. Investigation could become a criminal inquiry; agent not named.
How sources frame Vance's alleged travel demands and helicopter example.
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“a brand-new controversy to be the center of after last week’s report detailing his alleged over-the-top demands”Read the original ↗
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“A member of Vice President JD Vance’s security detail is being investigated over allegations tied to a suspected news leak”Read the original ↗
New York Magazine and The Daily Beast frame demands as diva-like; others stick to official probe details.
Administrative probe and leave
A Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance’s security detail was put on administrative leave and is under internal review after being suspected of leaking information for a news story that included details about Vance’s travel plans.
“put on administrative leave after being suspected of leaking information”
The investigation is being conducted by the agency’s internal affairs component, and it is unclear if any possible administrative punishment or criminal charges could be forthcoming.
Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi said, "A member of the Vice Presidential Protective Division is the subject of an administrative investigation, and potential criminal inquiry," as the agency tied the probe to operational and information security concerns.
The suspected leak was linked to an MS NOW report that described Vance’s planned travel, including flying with his son on a Marine Corps helicopter to a golf lesson, plans later aborted.
NBC4 Washington reported the Secret Service said the investigation was being handled internally and did not identify the person under investigation.N
Operational details spark fury
The Secret Service said the probe involves allegations of compromising "operational and information security," and Guglielmi said, "any conduct that potentially threatens the safety of a protectee will not be tolerated."
The investigation was triggered by MS NOW’s report that some Secret Service agents were "fed up" with Vance’s personal travel schedule and that the story included details about Vance’s schedule that were not publicly known.
The Hill reported that the MS NOW story described agents’ frustration with last-minute travel requests and cited internal concerns about Vance and his office pressing them for trips and assignments that some agents considered an inappropriate or even unprecedented use of government resources.
The Hill also quoted a source familiar with the frustration saying, "He [Vance] thinks he can still move around like a U.S. Senator."
NBC News reported the Marine Two helicopter trip from the vice president’s official residence to Joint Base Andrews was canceled at the last minute because of severe weather, and it said NBC News had not independently confirmed the details in the MS NOW or CNN reports.
Broader crackdown and stakes
The Secret Service’s leak investigation is unfolding as the Trump administration has taken a hard-line position against disclosures to journalists, including issuing subpoenas tied to security concerns about a new presidential aircraft.
“"are not the targets, those leaking classified information are."”
Scripps News reported that four reporters from The New York Times received subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury in connection with an investigation into their reporting about security features onboard a new presidential aircraft gifted to Donald Trump by the nation of Qatar.
The Hill said the DOJ told The Hill that the reporters "are not the targets, those leaking classified information are," and it quoted a spokesperson saying the investigation would not stop because of leaks impacting national security.
CBS News reported that Guglielmi said the administrative probe could become a criminal inquiry, and it noted Vance’s primary residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington.
NBC4 Washington reported that Vance and his wife, Usha, live in the vice president's residence at the U.S. NNaval Observatory and that on Sunday the couple welcomed their fourth child, Alec Neel Vance, the first baby born to a sitting vice president in more than 150 years.