When a Congressional committee conducted a March 2015 hearing on allegations of corruption in the Secret Service, how long did it take before a Secret Service agent illegally accessed the committee chairman's personnel file?
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The DHS Inspector General found that within 18 minutes of the start of the hearing, a Secret Service agent illegally accessed the personnel file of Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz. In the wake of the hearing, 45 Secret Service employees accessed Chaffetz's file, even though "only four had an arguably legitimate need to do so."
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