Secret Service agents snooped on private records of a high-ranking congressman in an attempt to embarrass him, a blistering 29-page report issued by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has found.

At the time, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who chairs the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was investigating allegations that two Secret Service supervisors in Washington had breached a crime scene adjacent to the White House and may have been drinking beforehand.

The inspector general concluded that officials improperly accessed Chaffetz's personnel records and sought to embarrass the congressman by making it known within the agency — and, ultimately, outside it — that Chaffetz had once applied for a job with the Secret Service and had not been hired. To get to his records, agency workers had to blow through an electronic warning about the consequences of accessing personal information in the database without authorization.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9432507/secret-service-chaffetz-scandal (link is external)