No, Hillary Clinton didn't go to Canada with 65 Secret Service agents
Story highlights A security supervisor said "approximately 65 agents" traveled to Canada with Hillary Clinton That report was picked up by conservative media and an anti-Clinton group "This number is grossly inaccurate and exaggerated," a Secret Service source tells CNN
News Talk 980 CJME, a local radio station in Saskatoon, reported on Wednesday night that a security supervisor from the venue hosting Clinton said "approximately 65 agents" were in house to protect the former first lady.
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The news ballooned on Thursday morning when the conservative Weekly Standard cited the radio station in a post, the influential Drudge Report linked to the story and the anti-Clinton super PAC America Rising blasted an email to reporters about Clinton's "army of Secret Service agents, paid for at taxpayer expense."
All of this, however, was incorrect, says a source at the Secret Service.
"Although it's our policy not to discuss specific security measures, in this instance we can say this number is grossly inaccurate and exaggerated," the source said.
A Clinton spokesman declined to comment and referred CNN to the Secret Service.
Because Clinton is a former first lady and secretary of state, she regularly travels with a cadre of agents who protect her wherever she goes. When Clinton is traveling for speaking engagements and events, her personal protection is regularly increased by local agents.
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No, Hillary Clinton didn't go to Canada with 65 Secret Service agents