The drama around around Washington, thanks goodness, in these instances is not real. It’s just practice for the different federal agencies. You can never be too ready. You can never practice too much. By Laura Blumenfeld Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Five minutes before his job interview, John Fisher parks at Ace Fire Extinguisher…
Ronald Kessler has written an interesting book on the Secret Service. Inside the agency, some people aren’t very happy about it and have expressed disappointment that some former agents have opened up and talked. The following is an excerpt of the book “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO –– David Axelrod, President Obama’s senior advisor, is now being protected by the U.S. Secret Service, ticklethewire.com has learned. Sources familiar with the situation said Axelrod picked up the detail in recent weeks. U.S. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan declined to provide details, but said: “I can confirm that he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service relying on a psychic? That’s the claim in a new book by Ronald Kessler “In The President’s Secret Service”. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column by Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts reports that the Secret Service once changed a motorcade route for President George H.W. Bush in 1992…
Yes, as you might expect, the training is rigorous, the requirements are tough. Here’s the details. By Laura Blumenfeld Washington Post Sunday Magazine LESSON ONE: Get Ready To Die The teacher walks into the mat room. “Good morning, Mr. Mixon,” the students say in unison. “Cut that [expletive] out. Don’t act like you give a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The presence of U.S. Secret Service agents, particularly outside of Washington, often creates a buzz and plenty speculation. Over the weekend, the Boston Globe reports, agents were spotted in Nantucket outside the American Seasons restaurant, which promotes itself as offering “some of the island’s most creative food, along with a one-of-a-kind…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If there’s any place on earth that takes the illegal distribution of movies seriously, it’s the Los Angeles area. Derek Hawthorne, 21, is learning that the hard way. Hawthorne pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles to two felony counts of illegally uploading copyrighted works….
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Secret Service agent from Maryland, who traveled to Mexico with President Obama last month “probably contracted swine flu and infected several members of his family in Anne Arundel County”, the Washington Post reported Friday. Marc S. Griswold, who had left the Secret Service a while ago and…
