By ASHTON MARRA ABC News Whether you prefer Do-Si-Dos or Thin Mints, almost everyone loves a Girl Scout cookie, but the annual fundraiser has created a spike in crime across the country this year that has even the Secret Service stepping in. At least two troops on opposite sides of the U.S. have received counterfeit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After 29 years with the agency, U.S. Secret Service Deputy Director Keith L. Prewitt is hanging it up. He’ll retire April 7. “It’s truly been an honor to work with the dedicated men and women of the Secret Service and serve as Director Sullivan’s deputy,” said Prewitt in a statement. “It’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A tell-all book by an ex-Secret Service agent who worked the President Clinton detail is bound to ruffle some feathers inside the Beltway. The Examiner newspaper reports that ex-Secret Service agent Dan Emmett has written a self-published book “Within Arms’s Length” that “savages the Clinton White House staff as arrogant and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It took a while. CBS News reports that presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will be getting Secret Service protection just like Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. The network pointed out that Ron Paul is now the only candidate left who doesn’t have the Secret Service protection. Gingrich, who has been fading in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Florida state lawmaker announced his resignation on Friday after admitting that he sent anonymous, flirtatious text messages in 2011 to a married assistant U.S. Attorney, ABC 25 reported. The admission by Fla. House Rep. Richard Steinberg, 39, came after the Secret Service traced the unsolicited texts he sent to assistant…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You know a good way to stay homeless? Try stealing a Secret Service car. UPI reports a homeless man was arrested in Washington on Friday after he tried swiping a Secret Service car that was parked near Sidwell Friends School, an exclusive private school in Upper Northwest Washington that happens to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, is set to receive protection from the Secret Service, reports FOX News. Rival candidate Newt Gingrich has also requested protection from the service, and Mitt Romney already has it, according to FOX. Santorum asked for protection after an incident earlier this month after “Occupy” supporters heckled…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could it be that presidential hopeful Rick Santorum wants what Mitt Romney already has? Apparently, so. ABC and Fox news report that Santorum has sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking for Secret Service Protection, USA Today reports. Romney is currently the only GOP candidate who has the…
