Category Archives: Secret Service

Zero Fail review: US Secret Service as presidential protectors – and drunken frat boys

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Pulitzer-winner Carol Leonnig anatomises an agency that has never truly lived up to its steely professional image

At times, the US Secret Service has resembled a bunch of pistol-toting frat boys on a taxpayer-funded spring break. In the words of a drunken supervisor speaking to his men in the run-up to a 2012 summit in Cartagena, Colombia: “You don’t know how lucky you are … You are going to fuck your way across the globe.”

Related: Trump family members got ‘inappropriately close’ to Secret Service agents, book claims

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Sorry, try Obama’s house: Secret Service barred from using Ivanka Trump’s bathrooms

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Secret Service detail were forced to use porta-potties or neighbors’ bathrooms until government rented them an apartment

The dying days of the Trump administration have been plagued by yet more scandal in the form of riots, Twitter bans and impeachment. Now the Washington Post has added another: water closet gate.

In a multi-bylined article one of America’s top investigative news outlets has chronicled in leg-crossing detail the apparently extreme difficulty that the Secret Service detail assigned to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have had in finding a place to go to the bathroom.

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