By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration has repeatedly denied that anyone from his administration was involved with the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal in Columbia. But the Washington Post reports that new information suggests one of the presidential advance-team members was involved but never thorough investigated. In fact, the White House continued to say…
By Farah Stockman Boston Globe Here’s a quiz: Which crime is more likely to get you shot to death? A) Scaling the fence outside the White House, with a knife; B) Jaywalking in Ferguson, Mo., unarmed. The answer, of course, is B, at least if you’re a black man. And it’s not just in Ferguson….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to address low morale and security blunders at the Secret Service, some congressional watchdogs are proposing to limit the agency’s role of protecting the president, Time reports. Perhaps most important, the proposal includes removing Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security, which has struggled as a giant bureaucracy. “Long-term,…
By David Horsey The Baltimore Sun Secret Service agents should go to the movies more often. At least since the 1996 sci-fi film, “Independence Day,” in which an alien spaceship the size of Los Angeles incinerates the White House, attacks on the lovely old executive mansion have been a recurring cinematic theme. Last year, two…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Whoever takes over the embattled Secret Service will face an insurmountable task. They must handle plunging morale, a tarnished reputation, budget holes and plenty of blunders that led to the resignation of Director Julia Pierson, the Wall Street Journal reports. How disgruntled are employees? A 2013 survey found that Secret Service…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I think the American public in general has been blown away by recent news of the lapses in Secret Service security involving the President. I have to think, had terrorists any clue that it was so easy to breach security and get into the White House, they would have tried something…
By Boston Globe Editorial Board For the federal agency tasked with protecting the president, it’s embarrassing enough that a man could scale the White House fence and make it well into the executive mansion before being apprehended. But the Secret Service’s defensive response to the incident, including withholding key information about the breach, is a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I think the American public in general has been blown away by recent news of the lapses in Secret Service security involving the President. I have to think, had terrorists any clue that it was so easy to breach security and get into the White House, they would have tried something…
