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Outdoor Comedy, a Talk on Famous Jewels, and a Book on Secret Service Scandals: Things to Do in DC, May 17-19 Plus: Great listening recs.  Here’s what you should check out this week: Too close: A president’s daughter falls in love with her Secret Service agent—it’s the plot of the terrible 2004 rom-com Chasing Liberty starring Mandy Moore, but it’s also rumored to be what happened in the Trump White House, according to a new book. Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leo...

JFK told the Secret Service to stay away.

CBS News Behind the Secret Services veil of secrecy It was all there, plain to see on January 6th: the valor of the Secret Service agents protecting Vice President Mike Pence.  "The bravery is pretty amazing, when they find a way to surreptitiously leave, as people are tromping through the building, rioters, in various amounts of war gear," said Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig. But, as Leonnig spells out in her new book about the Secret Service, "Zero Fail," there...

The Many Blunders of the Secret Service — and the Dangers They Pose to U.S. Presidents Secret Service agents keep an eye on Air Force One, 2008.Credit...Matt Slocum/Associated Press Buy Book ▾ By Chris Whipple ZERO FAIL By Carol Leonnig Anyone of a certain age can remember when assassination was a tragic fact of American political life. In the 1960s came the slayings of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy; in the 1970s and ’80s, the near-fatal...

We’ve seen this movie before. After warnings go unheeded, a predictable, completely avoidable disaster strikes the US -- in the process, revealing a soft, exposed underbelly of risk. And the people who get paid to stop this kind of thing from happening never seem to learn, most of the time, until it’s too late -- or nearly. This time, it was the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline which took the US to the brink of a major national energy...

Donald Trump Jr.s estranged wife began dating Secret Service agent protecting her family, after divorce: Book Vanessa Trump had filed for an uncontested divorce from Donald Trump Jr. in March 2018. After resolving a child custody issue in July of that year, the divorce was finalized by the end of the year Author of the article: National Post Staff Publishing date: May 14, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  2 minute read  •  Vanessa Haydon Trump appears in Civil Supreme Court on July ...

CBS News Book excerpt: "Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service" In her new book, "Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service" (Random House), Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig (co-author of the bestselling "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trumps Testing of America") traces the evolution of the agency responsible for protecting the president, and how in recent years the Secret Service has become marred by black marks, scandals, and a toxic work cul...

The Guardian, which obtained a copy of  Zero Fail. Vanessa, who was married to Trump Jr. from 2005 to 2018, reportedly “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family,” though ultimately, “the agent concerned did not face disciplinary action as neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point.” There was a conflict of interest, however, with Tiffany Trump and one Secret Service member on her detail, with whom she “began spending ...

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