These demands included racing through a four-block trip to the White House from the agency’s headquarters, as well as a trip to Colorado, with one former deputy chief of staff to Pruitt describing the driving with sirens and lights as “overly obnoxious, excessive, and more dangerous to everyone.”Ĭoncern about these demands became so intense that one member of the security detail refused to turn on the lights and sirens, and then was removed from his job, the investigators found. “Just because the administrator makes himself late for an appointment does not constitute us to arbitrarily turn on lights and sirens to get him to his next appointment timely,” one agent told investigators. Many of the agents told the investigators that they had felt pressured by Pruitt to use the lights and sirens, describing him “as perpetually late and successful in convincing younger agents” to violate agency policy that they be used only in emergencies.
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