Report: Secret Service official to retire amid probe

A member of President Obama's Secret Service detail plans to resign amid an investigation into an alcohol-related incident at the White House gate, The Washington Postis reporting.

Marc Connolly's decision comes ahead of the release of a report that says "he and a colleague were 'more likely than not' impaired by alcohol on the night of March 4 as they drove into a temporary barricade and directly beside a suspicious package that was under investigation as a possible bomb," the Post reports.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding a hearing Thursday on the incident.

From The Post:

"The investigation found that Connolly, the No. 2 on Obama's detail, and George Ogilvie, a supervisor in the Washington field office, had spent five hours at a downtown bar before returning to the White House on the night of March 4, according to the report, which was reviewed by The Washington Post. ...

"Larry Berger, an attorney for Connolly and Ogilvie, said he had not seen the report but that it would be 'wholly irresponsible and inaccurate' to conclude that the agents were intoxicated or engaged in misconduct."