Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigations into the U.S. Secret Service have been bungled by senators and plagued with nepotism allegations against an inspector general, according to congressional and government sources, the Washington Times reports. Despite allegations of sexual misconduct against a Secret Service agent, Sen. Claire McCaskill has demanded an end to the investigation, and Deputy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 12-year Secret Service agent who resigned in 2011 to run for a Senate seat in Maryland has written a book about his career. Dan Bongino’s “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from it All” hit the bookshelves Tuesday, offering a look at the staffers, acolytes,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com You’ve probably heard of the millions of Americans who say they’ve lost their insurance plan because of the Affordable Care Act requirements. Among those unlucky souls is a former Secret Service agent, the Washington Times reports. Dan Bongino, who was a Secret Service agent for 12 years under the Clinton and Obama…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service employees have engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior in at least 17 countries in recent years, according to the Washington Post. The Post got that estimate from whistleblowers who reported to the Senate’s subcommittee on Homeland Security. Sen. Ronald H. Johnson, R-Wis., said the whistleblower accounts contradict statements from Secrete Service…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It started with a bullet inside a woman’s hotel room. Ignacio Zamora Jr., a senior supervisor who oversees a dozen agents in the president’s detail, tried to force his way into the hotel room and retrieve the bullet, the Washington Post reports. After launching that investigation, authorities also discovered that Zamora…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When JFK was assassinated, the Secret Service was in store for major changes. The Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the Nov. 22 shooting, found what it called “certain shortcomings and lapses from high standards which the Commission believes should prevail in the field of Presidential protection.” The ill-prepared Secret Service,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Clint Hill remembers running toward the back of the limousine where President John F. Kennedy was just shot. Hill was a Secret Service agent who was in the motorcade surrounding the president and first lady on Nov. 22, 1963. “I think about it every day,” Hill told a crowd Tuesday night at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jay Leno took a little shot at the Secret Service during his monologue Tuesday night. Responding to reports that entertainer Justin Beiber, 19, had been spotted coming out of a brothel in Brazil, Leno said: “Looks like he wants to be a Secret Service agent when he grows up.”
