Secrets of the Secret Service

by Gary J. Byrne

  20. Meyer, Lawrence. “President Taped Talks, Phone Calls; Lawyer Ties Ehrlichman to Payments Principal Offices Secretly Bugged Since Spring 1971.” The Washington Post. July 17, 1973.

  5. Transition and Tragedy

  1. Gormley, Ken. The death of American virtue: Clinton vs. Starr. Broadway Books, 2011.

  2. U.S. Secret Service. James J. Rowley Training Center Master Plan Environmental Assessment Laurel, Maryland. By AECOM, August 2012.

  3. Service, Secret. “United States Secret Service Budget 1975-2002.” DOJ: JMD: BS: Budget Trend Data, United States Secret Service. https://www.justice.gov/archive/jmd/1975_2002/2002/html/page133-135.htm.

  4. Emmett, Dan. Within Arm’s Length: A Secret Service Agent’s Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2014.

  5. U.S. Secret Service. Making Schools Safer, May 2013.

  6. U.S. Secret Service. Dept. of Education. The final report and findings of the safe school initiative: Implications for the prevention of school attacks in the United States. Washington D.C., July 2004.

  7. Dept. of the Treasury United States Secret Service. Service Star, 1995.

  8. Dept. of the Treasury United States Secret Service. Service Star, 1996.

  9. Dept. of the Treasury United States Secret Service. Service Star, 2000.

  10. Congressional Research Service. National Special Security Events: Fact Sheet. by Shawn Reese, January 25, 2017.

  11. USA. U.S. Congress. Government Publishing Office. Presidential Travel. by Larry Craig. No. 137 ed. Vol. 144. 105th Congress, 2nd Session. DC, DC: Congressional Record, 1998.

  12. Bohn, Kevin. “Clinton Walks in Moroccan Funeral Procession, Meets Other World Leaders.” Cable News Network, July 26, 1999.

  13. Freeze, Christopher. “The Time a Stolen Helicopter Landed on the White House Lawn.” Air & Space Magazine, April 2017.

  14. United States General Accounting Office. The White House: Allegations of Damage During the 2001 Presidential Transition, 2002.

  15. History.com Staff. “9/11 Timeline.” History.com, 2011.

  16. “The Dangerously Delayed Reactions of the Secret Service on 9/11.” Shoestring 9/11, October 2, 2013.

  17. Keefe, Mark. “A Tribute to a Quiet Hero.” American Rifleman, September 11, 2014.

  18. Miller, Brian. “ECHOES OF 9/11: Secret Service Agent Craig Miller.” The Enterprise, September 4, 2011.

  19. “September 11th Terror Attacks Fast Facts.” CNN, August 24, 2017.

  20. Kessler, Ronald. The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack. Crown Forum, 2007.

  6. Shaky Wartime Footing

  1. Graff, Garrett., Jack Shafer, Jeff Greenfield, and Anna O. Law. “‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’.” POLITICO Magazine, September 9, 2016.

  2. Cenciotti, David. “Air Force One Journey on September 11: No Escort During the Attacks, 11 Fighters When the Airspace was Completely Free of Airliners.” The Aviationist, September 9, 2011.

  3. Ungerleider, Neal. “There Are Secret Blimps Protecting Washington, D.C.” Fast Company, December 23, 2014.

  4. Meeks, Brock N. “Head of Federal Air Marshal Service Resigns.” NBCNews.com, January 6, 2006.

  5. “Thread: Air Marshals Complain of Secret Service Cronyism.” LEO Affairs Forums RSS. August 25, 2006.

  6. Anonymous Federal Air Marshal (For Fear of Reprisal). “Air Marshals and The Secret Service Factor By An Anonymous Federal Air Marshal.” Scribd. 2006. https://www.scribd.com/document/122150590/Air-Marshals-and-The-Secret-Service-Factor-By-An-Anonymous-Federal-Air-Marshal

  7. Becker, Andrew. “Air Marshals Say a Party-Hearty Attitude Prevails at the Agency.” Reveal. August 3, 2017.

  8. Associated Press. “Retired Secret Service Agents Use Loop Hole to ‘Double Dip’.” North Hills News Record, June 20, 1998.

  7. Losing Control

  1. Johnson, Kevin. “Secret Service: Trump Faces Same Number of Threats as Obama.” USA Today, June 2, 2017.

  2. Haggin, Joseph, Thomas Perrelli, Danielle Gray, and Mark Filip. “United States Secret Service Protective Mission Panel (USSSPMP).” Department of Homeland Security, December 15, 14.

  3. Chaffetz, Jason E., and Elijah E. Cummings. “House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Report U.S. Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.” Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, December 9, 2015.

  4. Kessler, Ronald. In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect. New York City, NY: Crown Forum, 2009.

  5. Shamma, Tasnim. “’In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect’.” Newsweek. August 04, 2010.

  6. Amy Argetsinger, and Roxanne Roberts. “Reliable Source: Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash Obamas’ state dinner for India.” The Washington Post. November 26, 2009.

  7. Thomas, Pierre, and Sarah Netter. “Alleged White House Crasher Carlos Allen: ‘I Got an Actual Invite in the Mail’.” ABC News. January 11, 2010.

  8. Leonnig, Carol D. “Secret Service agents pulled off White House patrol to help protect a top official’s aide.” The Washington Post. May 10, 2014.

  9. Ragavan, Chitra, and Christopher H. Schmitt. “The Secrets of the Secret Service.” U.S. News & World Report, June 11, 2002.

  10. Martin, Adam. “How to Party Like a Secret Service Agent in Cartagena.” Yahoo! News. May 23, 2012.

  11. Wyler, Grace. “Here are the wild details from the secret services prostitution scandal” Business Insider. April 14, 2012.

  12. Leonning, Carol, and David Nakamura. “Secret Service scandal: Colombian woman describes night of carousing with agents” The Washington Post. May 4, 2012.

  13. Nakamura, David, and Joe Davidson. “U.S. Secret Service Agents Recalled from Colombia.” The Washington Post, April 13, 2012.

  14. Leonnig, Carol D., and David Nakamura. “Aides Knew of Possible White House Link to Cartagena, Colombia, Prostitution Scandal.” The Washington Post, October 8, 2014.

  15. Reporter, Daily Mail. “’Check this out… you’re fired!’: Sarah Palin hits back at the disgraced Secret Service agent who joked about her on Facebook.” Daily Mail Online. April 20, 2012.

  16. Martin, Adam. “Fired Secret Service Agents Will Not Go Quietly.” The Atlantic, May 23, 2012.

  17. Leonnig, Carol D., and David Nakamura. “Secret Service Sex Scandal: Several Say They Didn’t Break the Rules.” The Washington Post, May 22, 2012.

  18. Nakamura, David, and Ed O’Keefe. “Secret Service Imposes New Rules on Agents for Foreign Trips.” The Washington Post, April 27, 2012.

  19. Kessler, Ronald. “Secret Service Agents Are Not Polygraphed.” Newsmax, May 7, 2012.

  20. Schmidt, Michael S. “Investigator in Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Resigns.” The New York Times, October 28, 2014.

  21. Tucker, Eric. “Prostitution Scandal Highlights Lack of Women in Secret Service.” The Newark Advocate, April 29, 2012.

  22. McVeigh, Karen. “Julia Pierson: Pioneer Out to Restore Secret Service’s Tarnished Reputation.” The Guardian, March 28, 2013.

  23. “Statement of Julia A. Pierson Director, United States Secret Service Department of Homeland Security. Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform United States House of Representatives.” Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. September 30, 2014.

  24. Dept. of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General. 2014 White House Fence Jumping Incident, 2014.

  25. Kessler, Ronald. “Something Is Rotten in the Secret Service.” POLITICO Magazine, September 30, 2014.

  26. Lowery, Wesley, and Carol D. Leonnig. “Secret Service Director Pledges Full Security Review After White House Breach.” The Washington Post, September 30, 2014.

  27. Kessler, Ronald. “White House Security Breach: The Secret Service Thinks We Are Fools.” Time, September 23, 2014.

  28. “Oversight Hearing White House Sec
urity, Sep 30 2014 | Video.” C-SPAN.org. September 30, 2014. Accessed November 04, 2017.

  29. “Secret Service Seeks $8 Million to Build Fake White House for Training.” Fox News, March 18, 2015.

  30. Crabtree, Susan. “Trade Group Slams Chaffetz as Secret Service Subpoena Showdown Intensifies.” Washington Examiner, April 1, 2015.

  31. Rein, Lisa. “41 Secret Service Agents Disciplined After Leaking GOP Congressman’s Personnel File.” The Washington Post, May 27, 2016.

  32. “DHS Inspector Confirms Secret Service Director’s Changing Story.” CBS News, October 23, 2015.

  8. The Secret Service Swamp

  1. Bazinet, Kenneth, Alison Gendar, and Christina Boyle. “Feds knew flyover might spark panic - but didn’t care.” NY Daily News. April 29, 2009.

  2. Leonnig, Carol D., and David Nakamura. “Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal.” The Washington Post. October 08, 2014.

  3. Cheney, Dick. “Dick Cheney reflects on the difficult decisions of 9/11.” NBCNews.com. March 27, 2013.

  4. Parr, Jerry. In the Secret Service: the true story of the man who saved President Reagan’s life. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2013.

  5. Takala, Rudy. “Hacked: Clinton’s newest email address revealed.” Washington Examiner. October 06, 2016.

  6. Bier, Jeryl. “Clinton aide asked secret service agent to assist with securing Hillary email server.” Weekly Standard. November 01, 2016.

  7. Fandos, Nicholas. “Secret Service Post Moves From Trump Tower to a Trailer.” The New York Times. August 03, 2017.

  8. Chaffetz, Jason E., and Elijah E. Cummings. “House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Report U.S. Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.” Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. December 9, 2015.

  9. McVeigh, Karen. “Julia Pierson: pioneer out to restore secret services tarnished reputation.” The Guardian. March 28, 2013.

  10. Crabtree, Susan. “Secret Service Offered to ‘Fast-Track’ Disability Retirement for Able-Bodied Workers, Several DHS Sources Say.” Washington Free Beacon. September 08, 2017.

  11. Hodge, Mark. “Female Secret Service agent reveals she wouldn’t risk her life to protect Donald Trump.” The Sun. January 25, 2017.

  12. Bongino, Dan. Life inside the bubble: why a top-ranked secret service agent walked away from it all. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2013.

  13. Venker, Marty, and George Rush. Confessions of an ex-Secret Service agent. New York: D.I. Fine, 1988.

  14. Byrne, Gary J., and Grant M. Schmidt. Crisis of character: a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate. New York: Center Street, 2017.

  15. Crabtree, Susan. “Secret Service removes agent who didn’t want to take ‘a bullet’ for Trump.” Washington Examiner. March 19, 2017.

  16. Partnership For Public Service. “Overall Rankings.” Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. 2016.

  17. “Entertainers who have joked about harming Trump.” Fox News. June 23, 2017.

  18. Bowers, Becky. “In Context: Ted Nugent saying if Obama wins, ‘I will either be dead or in jail’.” PolitiFact. April 19, 2012.

  19. “Kathy Griffin’s Trump Beheading Photo Fetches Huge Price.” TMZ. September 14, 2017.

  20. Concha, Joe. “Former Mueller deputy on Trump: ‘Government is going to kill this guy’.” The Hill. August 11, 2017.

  21. Bobic, Igor. “’Trump Is Treason!’: Protester Throws Russian Flags At President.” The Huffington Post. October 24, 2017.

  22. Kutner, Max. “Alexandria shooting: Did anti-Trump rhetoric inspire James Hodgkinson?” Newsweek. June 14, 2017.

  23. “Who we are.” American Bridge PAC. https://americanbridgepac.org/about/

  24. Lorber, Janie. “American Bridge 21st Century Super PAC Is Hub of Left.” Roll Call. February 12, 2012.

  25. Piaker, Zachary. “American Bridge 21st Century.” FactCheck.org. June 27, 2014.

  26. Estepa, Jessica. “Secret Service spends $13,500 on golf cart rentals for President Trump’s Bedminster trip.” USA Today. August 08, 2017.

  27. Rein, Lisa. “Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family Sept. 30.” Washington Post, August 21, 2017.

  28. Alesci, Cristina, and Curt Devine. “Secret Service paid Mar-a-Lago at least $63,000, documents show.” CNN Money. October 12, 2017.

  29. Estepa, Jessica. “Secret Service spent $7,100 renting luxury portable toilets for Trump’s Bedminster trip.” USA Today. August 25, 2017.

  30. Johnson, Kevin. “Exclusive: Secret Service depletes funds to pay agents because of Trump’s frequent travel, large family.” USA Today. August 22, 2017.

  31. Maté, Aaron. “Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact.” The Nation. October 06, 2017.

  32. Sperry, Paul. “Sketchy firm behind Trump dossier is stalling investigators.” New York Post. June 26, 2017.

  33. Borger, Julian. “Louise Mensch: the former British MP who scooped US media on Trump’s Russian ties.” The Guardian. February 17, 2017.

  34. Dinan, Stephen. “San Juan mayor accuses Trump of ‘genocide’ after hurricane.” The Washington Times. October 12, 2017.

  35. “North Carolina councilwoman compares Trump to Hitler.” WTVD-TV. October 23, 2017.

  36. Johnson, Kevin. “Secret Service: Trump faces same number of threats as Obama.” USA Today. June 02, 2017.

  37. “Several threats made against Trump per day: Secret Service director.” CBS News. June 01, 2017.

  38. Haggin, Joseph, Thomas Perrelli, Danielle Gray, and Mark Filip. “United States Secret Service Protective Mission Panel (USSSPMP).” Department of Homeland Security. December 15, 14.

  39. Westwood, Sarah. “Trump announces new Secret Service director.” Washington Examiner. April 25, 2017.

  40. Ali, Yashar. “Secret Service agents under investigation for taking photos of Donald Trump’s sleeping grandson.” Mother Jones. June 23, 2017

  9. Make The Secret Service Great Again

  1. Trump, Donald. Great again: how to fix our crippled America. New York: Threshold Editions, 2016.

  2. Bolden, Abraham. The echo from Dealey Plaza: the true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008.

  3. “Former agent reveals who ‘ruined’ the Secret Service.” WND. September 10, 2017.

  4. Baker, Sue Ann. Behind the shades: a female secret service agents true story. Roseburg, OR: WWP Publishing, 2015.

  5. Bongino, Dan. Protecting the president: an insiders account of the troubled Secret Service in an era of evolving threats. Washington, DC: WND Books, 2017.

  6. Goldstein, Bonnie. “Racist Secret Service E-Mails.” Slate Magazine. May 12, 2008.

  7. Johnston, David. “E-Mail Shows Racial Jokes by Secret Service Supervisors.” The New York Times. May 09, 2008.

  8. Chaffetz, Jason E., and Elijah E. Cummings. “House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Report U.S. Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.” Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. December 9, 2015.

  9. Rein, Lisa. “Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family Sept. 30.” Washington Post, August 21, 2017.

  10. Kurson, Ken. “Former Agent: The Secret Service Is In Collapse.” Observer. October 12, 2014.

  11. Emmett, Dan. “Alcohol isn’t the Secret Service’s problem. Lousy leadership is.” The Washington Post. March 28, 2

  12. Sun, Chhun, and Seth Bodine. “Colorado Springs motorcycle officer injured in crash while escorting VP Mike Pence’s motorcade.” Colorado Springs Gazette. June 24, 2017.

  13. Partnership For Public Service. “Overall Rankings.” Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. 2016.

  14. Written testimony of USSS Director Randolph Alles for a House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation an
d Protective Security hearing titled “How Can the United States Secret Service Evolve to Meet the Challenges Ahead?” Department of Homeland Security. June 8, 2017.

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  * Sound familiar? Instead of naming the new buildings after agents or officers killed in the line of duty, the new buildings were named after the three Secret Service directors who had served during the Clinton administration—and who had secured the funding for the buildings.