Comcast Security Chief Takes Over As Acting Head Of Secret Service
By Ian Bush
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Secret Service is under new management today: it's a respected security professional from Philadelphia who has experience protecting executives at the highest levels of government and corporate America.
Joe Clancy has been appointed the new acting interim director of the Secret Service. He returns to the Capitol from Comcast Country. It's here where he spent the past three years keeping the cable company's workers, property, and other assets safe from harm.
A Comcast spokesman says the Villanova grad has "strong management skills" and the "integrity" to make him an "outstanding interim leader" for the Secret Service.
As head of the Presidential Protective Division, Clancy spent much of President Obama's first term literally in his shadow -- forever scanning and sizing up crowds and those who wished to get close.
With too many close calls recently for POTUS, the brawny, balding man and trusted friend of the First Family is called back to right the ship.
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