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Secret Service agent embroiled in hooker scandal posted provocative Facebook photo of himself staring at Sarah Palin

'I was checking her out, if you know what I mean?' David Chaney wrote

By Alison Gendar, Joseph Straw and Richard Schapiro
Friday, April 20, 2012

Secret Service agent David Chaney in a photo with Sarah Palin.

He was a supervisor in the Secret Service — but a more apt title would be Agent Horndog.

The veteran agent forced to retire amid the Colombian hooker scandal had an eye for the ladies, especially a certain 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate.

David Chaney, 48, posted a photo on his Facebook page showing him staring at Sarah Palin — and added a cheeky message.

“I was really checking her out, if you know what I mean?” Chaney wrote beside the photo, which shows him holding open the door of a black SUV.

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Palin lashed out at Chaney Thursday night, calling his conduct “pretty embarrassing.”

The agent “was kind of ridiculous posting pictures and comments,” Palin said on Fox News night. “Well check this out, bodyguard. You’re fired! And I hope his wife . . . kicks him into the dog house.”

Palin certainly isn’t the only woman who has caught the married agent’s attention in recent years.

His Facebook page is peppered with photos of him getting smooched by different women — often two at a time.

The bulk of the photos appear to have been shot at a boozy high school reunion in 2009.

In one, Chaney’s seen grinning mischievously as two pretty blondes plant kisses on each cheek.

“Chicks really dig Secret Service Agents,” wrote a friend.

Blondes plant kisses on each of Channy's cheeks.

In another, a brunette is kissing his cheek, her arms locked around his neck.

“DAVE, you WERE really popular that night!” a friend wrote.

Even before he was embroiled in a South American prostitution case, Chaney’s love for the ladies stretched far beyond the U.S. borders.

In another Facebook picture, he’s seen with a voluptuous, scantily-clad belly dancer while on vacation in Egypt.

David Chaney (left) seen with belly dancer during a vacation.

A tamer album contains a series of pictures documenting Chaney’s relationship with his wife, Kelly.

Chaney, who lives with Kelly in Virginia, was a second-generation agent: His dad, George Chaney, protected President Johnson.

David Chaney worked at the Secret Service for close to two decades, officials said.

He married Kelly in 1995 and helped raise her now-26-year-old son, Justin.

“All I know is that he was good to my ex-wife and was good to my son,” said Wes Bump, Kelly Chaney’s ex-husband. “I knew he was high up in the Secret Service, but that was it.”

Neither Chaney nor his wife answered the door of their tan colonial home in Ashburn, a leafy community about 30 miles west of Washington D.C.

A silver Ford F-150 pickup parked in the driveway sported two bumper stickers with an image of the Texas flag beside the word “SECEDE.”

The second supervisor involved in the scandal, Greg Stokes, was fired. He is fighting to keep his job, exercising his option to appeal the firing.

Stokes, who lives in Annapolis, Maryland, is divorced. His ex-wife also is a Secret Service agent.

A Special Note To ex-Agent Chaney

But of course we in Canada know exactly what you mean. You were fantasizing while staring at Ms Palin's Buttocks and legs.