By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, who served under two presidents, steps down on Friday after a long reign at the head of the agency. Sullivan, who had been director since 2006, had a successful run as director, but his tenure was not without heartburn. He had to deal with the couple…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fox News is reporting that an Inspector General report suggests that Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan lied during his congressional testimony in the Colombia prostitution scandal. Fox wrote on it’s website: Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) have completed their investigative report, which…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Director of the U.S. Secret told Sen. Chuck Grassley that his agents did not compromise any sensitive information during the visit to Colombia that involved booze and hookers. “The Secret Service has no information to suggest that sensitive information was compromised during the Colombia trip,” Director Mark Sullivan wrote in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An Emergency Services specialist for U.S. Secret Service died Wednesday while fighting a four-alarm fire as a Lutherville, Md., volunteer firefighter in Baltimore County. Mark G. Falkenhan, 43, a four year employee of the Secret Service, died in a blaze, which was called in as a kitchen fire around…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden haven’t been shy about traveling out of the country. Mark Sullivan, the director of the U.S. Secret Service, told a Congressional panel Thursday morning that President Obama went on 31 international trips in his first year in office, a “significant increase…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has taken his share of lumps over the party crashing incident at the White House involving the now famous Salahis. In fact, some observers say he looked worn out when he recently went before Congress to testify on the matter and took blame…
This book on the Secret Service is continuing to touch nerves inside and outside the agency. Some current and former Secret Service agents are disturbed that current and former agents disclosed secrets that should have remained secret. Here’s the latest review of Ronald Kessler’s new book: “IN THE PRESIDENT’S SECRET SERVICE: Behind the Scenes with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Competition between the FBI and U.S. Secret Service over the years hasn’t always been playful. But this past Saturday it definitely was. The two agencies squared off in a hockey game before a standing-room only crowd at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Va., the practice rink of the…
