CBS News Behind the Secret Service's 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 was another, darker side to the agency on display that day as well: "There are a lot of members of the Secret Service, Presidential Protection Division, who cheer on that riot on the Capitol Grounds that day," she said.