The security service supervisor, David Chaney, had been assigned to protect her during the 2008 presidential campaign while she was John McCain‘s vice-presidential running-mate.

The photographs show Chaney in the background at a car door with Palin in the foreground. In a comment under one of the pictures, Chaney wrote: „I was really checking her out, if you know what I mean?“

Palin, interviewed on Fox on Thursday night, responded angrily. „Well, this agent who was kind of ridiculous there in posting pictures and comments about checking someone out. Well check this out bodyguard: you‘re fired.“