Zero Fail review: US Secret Service as presidential protectors – and drunken frat boys
by Lloyd Green from World news | The Guardian on (#5JDJ7)
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."
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