If Kwame Kilpatrick taught us anything, it’s that one really should not use government-owned communication lines to conduct personal, possibly inflammatory business. Some top Secret Service agents are in trouble over some racist and sexist emails they sent to each other on their government e-mail accounts.

According to a document filed in court last week as part of a lawsuit brought against the Secret Service by 10 black agents, the man who is now head of the presidential protective detail sent racially and sexually charged jokes to head of the Cincinnati office. The government filed the incriminating document a month late, which is par for the course in this lawsuit, says a lawyer for the plaintiffs. “The government’s delay follows a pattern of the Secret Service stonewalling plaintiffs and ignoring court orders, depriving African-American agents of the fundamental evidence of race discrimination that is key to their claims,” the lawyer told UPI.