black Secret Service agents will not be constrained by the glass ceiling that held back so many for so long,” Klar said. The race bias case centered on black agents who repeatedly bid for promotions from 1995 to 2005 and were turned down in favor of whites. Black agents said they heard bosses use the n-word word to describe black people, including foreign leaders the Secret Service was supposed to be protecting. Two federal judges overseeing the case repeatedly sanctioned the Secret Service for failing to provide relevant documents to the black agents, who sought information about the promotion process. She found the Secret Service had repeatedly stalled, and even destroyed potential evidence that could have helped the black agents’ claim.

Source: Washington Post January 18, 2017 03:45 UTC