Excellent article by former agent Dan Emmett

Excellent article by former agent Dan Emmett

Dan Emmett, a former Marine Corps captain, retired Secret Service agent and former CIA intelligence officer, is the author of “Within Arm’s Length: A Secret Service Agent’s Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President,” forthcoming in June.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alcohol-isnt-the-secret-services-problem-lousy-leadership-is/2014/03/28/6cc1b48c-b5be-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html

I helped in the writing of some of this article:

I helped in the writing of some of this article:


http://m.vice.com/read/obamas-secret-service-cant-get-its-shit-together

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So what gives? Why are so many Secret Service agents embarrassing themselves lately?
"The Secret Service's main cultural problem has never been sexism or hypermasculinity. It's alcoholism," Marc Ambinder, a journalist who has written extensively about the inner workings of the agency, told me. This is nothing new: Tales of agents getting too drunk to perform their jobs date to at least the Kennedy years

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Case in point is the agency's decision to send the three boozing agents home, a clear overreacton according to Dan Emmett, a 21-year veteran of the agency and author of the upcoming memoir Within Arm's Length. "Sending them home 24 hours before presidential arrival is counterproductive to the mission," he told me. "When you take three CAT agents out of a team, you just decimated that team by 50 percent, thus rendering them ineffective."

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The Man Behind the Suit: a Documentary of Robert DeProspero

The Man Behind the Suit: a Documentary of Robert DeProspero

This documentary is about Robert DeProspero, a retired Secret Service Agent who was head of security during the Reagan Administration.

https://www.facebook.com/TheManBehindTheSuit?ref=stream