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The Secret Service Has Had Some Wild Incidents in the Past. This Week’s Revelation Was Something Else.
Take the time and read from a reporter who has covered the Secret Service for years.
Aymann Ismail: You wrote the book on the Secret Service’s history. Where do the revelations from the Jan. 6 panel rank in that history?
Carol Leonnig: The Secret Service is a silent witness to all kinds of American history, some of it tragic, some of it very controversial. Sometimes it’s very intimate, involving the lives of the president and his family. I think the congressional committee hearings this week laid bare two important things about the Secret Service: One, they hate to be in the middle of a story and embroiled in a controversial matter involving the people they protect—they just want to protect the boss and stay in the shadows. But this has forced them to literally swear under oath what they saw and what they heard the president say and do.
How Exactly Does the Secret Service Feel About the Jan. 6 Bombshells? It Ain’t Good.
"The only thing I can think of is when Lyndon Johnson threatened to shoot out the tires of a follow-up car."
