Secret Service Failure

Zero Fail by Carol Leonig is a must-read if you seek to understand.

(2024-08-14: over the last month this has been the #1 story for this Substack. I added today’s interview of Carol Leonning by Tim Miller of The Bulwark to the end of this post. If you don’t have time to read the book, that interview gets all the high points.)

If you’re here wondering what’s wrong with the Secret Service, Carol Leonnig’s Zero Fail, published three years ago, has the full history from the agency’s founding through to its current dysfunction.

Here’s a quote from the Epilogue:

So … if you want to get past today’s torrent of hot takes and understand the real issues, you’ve got some reading to do.