With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to anoth...
Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a disti...
The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences.
Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one think...
While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declarati...
The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
At one point, Bush and his wife, Barbara, were staying at their Kennebunkport home in the winter, and they went out for a walk in the freezing cold. I had a hat on, and two of the other agents had a h...
Carlos Allen
Even though the training center is in Laurel, agents refer to it as Beltsville,
John W. Hinckley
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character, John Morley,
Trainees learn to respond to threats and take turns playing the protectee.
Voters tend to forget that presidents are, first and foremost, people. If they are unbalanced, nasty, and hypocritical, that will be reflected in their judgment and job performance. If
Academy—instructors set up scenarios to show trainees how
By shifting into reverse, jerking the wheel to the right or left, and shifting into drive.
Using pressure points to unlock his grip.
