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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 Leonnig is releasing Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, a look behind the typical clo...

JFK told the Secret Service to stay away.

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 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 shootings of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan. And yet, since Reagan’s close brush with a dera...

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...