Lawfare Archive: Carol Leonnig on the United States Secret Service and What to Do About It
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🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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From July 7, 2022: The United States Secret Service has many important missions, the most public of which is protecting the president of the United States. And in this mission, its motto is "Zero Fail." There is no window for them to let their guard down when it comes to protecting the commander-in-chief.
And yet, the past several decades of the Secret Service's protection have seen gaps, mistakes and exposures of some fundamental problems within the Secret Service itself. Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning national investigative reporter at the Washington Post known for her reporting on the Secret Service, as well as the Trump presidency and many other topics. She is also the author of the new book, "Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service." She sat down with David Priess to talk about the United States Secret Service, its mission, its challenges and potential reforms to get over some of its most fundamental flaws.
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| 1:28.8 | 20, 2024. |
| 1:31.9 | This week, an independent review panel released its findings on US Secret Service failures relating |
| 1:37.2 | to the Butler-Pensylvania assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. |
| 1:42.4 | This follows the release of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's |
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| 1:53.9 | For today's archive episode, I selected an episode from July 7, 2022, The Lawfare Podcast, Carol Leoneg, on the United States Secret Service |
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