Ronald Kessler is a former Washington Post reporter and the author of “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents.” By Ronald Kessler Washington Post When Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed a White House state dinner five years ago, President Obama said he “could not have more confidence” in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Serious claims launched against Secret Service agents may not be true. CNN interviewed law enforcement officials who contradicted a Washington Post story that asserted two Secret Service agents crashed through a crime scene at the White House. But according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, the agents did not interrupt…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two high-ranking Secret Service agents accused of striking a White House security fence while being heavily intoxicated interfered with an active bomb investigation, The Washington Post reports. The agents may have even run over the suspicious package, which was dropped off by a woman about a half hour earlier. At 10:25…
By Carol D. Leonnig The Washington Post WASHINGTON –– The Obama administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of the president’s protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party last week, an agency official said Wednesday. Officers on duty…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service is testing drones in an effort to determine what to do when a rogue one is flying over head, The Associated Press reports. During the next several weeks, the Secret Service will send drones over Washington D.C. The sessions come a little more than a month after a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama and the first family were just about to leave for Selma, Alabama, this weekend when a fire broke out outside the White House, prompting a lock-down by Secret Service agents, WHAS 11 ABC reports. The fire was at a vendor cart east of the North Lawn, causing no injuries….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Secret Service agent and sheriff’s deputy were allegedly assaulted while investigating threatening tweets against President Obama. WHIO.com reports that a 19-year-old Clark County, Ohio, man was arrested at his home after being alerted to online threats against Obama, police and other politicians. When the deputy and agent approached Ronald E….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service is planning to hold drone exercises in the Washington D.C. area over the next few weeks, Bloomberg reports. The agency said in a statement Tuesday that it plans “a series of exercises involving unmanned aircraft systems” in the restricted airspace of Washington. Secret Service declined further comment. The meeting…
