By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Presidential GOP hopeful Ron Paul is the only candidate left who doesn’t have Secret Service protection, and he has something to say about that. He thinks it amounts to a “form of welfare,” according to CNN. “You’re having the taxpayers pay to take care of somebody,” Paul told talk show host…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now comes the lighter side of the bumpy Republican presidential campaign. The New York Daily News reports that GQ magazine has revealed the Secret Service code names for candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The paper reported that Romney chose the name “Javelin”. The paper reported that some speculated the name…
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…
