Monthly Archives: April 2012

Very interesting Secret Service related links

http://www.secretservice.gov/FY2008_AnnualReport_WM.pdf   http://www.secretservice.gov/FY09_SecretService_Annual%20Report-Web.pdf   http://www.secretservice.gov/USSS2010AYweb.pdf   http://www.fleta.gov/fleta-board/board/biographies/nicholas-trotta   http://www.quintonreport.com/2012/04/26/new-secret-service-advance-team-scandal-from-2009-in-el-salvador-uncovered/  

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Great new Secret Service article

A Closer Look at the Secret Service Apr. 30, 2012, 8:00 AM | Secret Service agents are one category of law enforcement whose agents typically get the glory treatment. Recent books by members of JFK’s secret service detail, almost devoid … Continue reading

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Daily Kos article

This article quotes my work: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/24/1085819/-Lincoln-Kennedy-Obama-and-the-Secret-Service Tue Apr 24, 2012 at 06:21 AM PDT. Lincoln, Kennedy, Obama and the Secret Serviceby Michael Alton Gottlieb Follow . Tweet permalink 16 Comments In November 1864 the Washington police force created the first … Continue reading

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BEST MIMI ALFORD BOOK REVIEW

A HERO BUT NOT A SAINT,April 14, 2012 By  Steven G. Jones   This review is from: Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath (Hardcover) Mimi Alford’s story is very believable and the … Continue reading

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Commentary: There’s nothing new in latest Secret Service scandal

Commentary: There’s nothing new in latest Secret Service scandal Bob Ray Sanders The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Bob Ray Sanders Updated: 2012-04-25T10:49:43Z Secret Service agents and military personnel, part of a security advance team in a foreign country for the U.S. … Continue reading

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Report: Rampant Secret Service drinking, sex in 2011 trip

Report: Rampant Secret Service drinking, sex in 2011 trip By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY A Seattle TV station is reporting that a Secret Service team in El Salvador last year to prepare for President Obama’s visit allegedly engaged in heavy … Continue reading

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Wesley Pruden (Washington Times) quotes from my blog

Wesley Pruden (Washington Times) quotes from my blog This is a particularly sad episode for the Secret Service, which has been trying for four decades to live down a reputation for drunken malfeasance on the night before John F. Kennedy … Continue reading

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Clint Hill: recent comments to the media

Hill said, “There’s no tolerance at all, no room for any misbehavior in the Secret Service.” “There’s no loose chain. You are on the clock from the time you leave…until the time you return home.” [I guess Clint forgot the … Continue reading

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Secret Service Agent Selection Tougher Than Harvard

Secret Service Agent Selection Tougher Than Harvard   By Jeff Bliss – Apr 25, 2012 12:00 AM ET .   U.S. Secret Service agents, whose work protecting presidents has inspired myth and movies, are supposed to live by the adage … Continue reading

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Confidants: Secret Service agents contend misbehavior on trips not unprecedented

Confidants: Secret Service agents contend misbehavior on trips not unprecedented By Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura, Published: April 24The Washington Post Some Secret Service employees accused of misconduct in the Colombian prostitution scandal are privately contending that their conduct didn’t … Continue reading

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