The Shame of the Secret Service

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When people say the Secret Service’s job is to protect the president, they usually mean it in a physical way—not a political one.

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More Secret Than Service

The motto of the U.S. Secret Service is “Worthy of trust and confidence,” but recently the agency has put that to the test.

This week, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, which houses the Secret Service, Congress that the agency had.