The United States Secret Service And Presidential Protection

Author : Dan Emmett,Charles Maynard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250130310

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I Am a Secret Service Agent by Dan Emmett,Charles Maynard Pdf

Adapted from Within Arm'’s Length for a younger audience, a rare inside look at the Secret Service from an agent who protected Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. From that moment forward, he knew he wanted to become a Secret Service agent, one of an elite group of highly trained men and women dedicated to preserving the life of the President of the United States at any cost, including sacrificing their own lives if necessary. Armed with single-minded determination and a never-quit attitude, he did just that. Selected over thousands of other highly qualified applicants to become an agent, he was eventually chosen to be one of the best of the best and provided protection worldwide for Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush. I Am a Secret Service Agent skillfully describes the duties and challenges of conducting presidential advances, dealing with the media, driving the President in a bullet-proof limousine, running alongside him through the streets of Washington, and flying with him on Air Force One. With fascinating anecdotes, Emmett weaves keen insight into the unique culture and history of the Secret Service with the inner workings of the White House. I Am A Secret Service Agent is a must read for young adults interested in a career in federal law enforcement.

Author : Gary J. Byrne
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781546082484

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Secrets of the Secret Service by Gary J. Byrne Pdf

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller CRISIS OF CHARACTER comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service. The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents. In his new book, former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne takes readers behind the scenes to understand the agency's history and today's security failings that he believes put Americans at risk The American public knows the stories of Secret Service heroism, but they don't know about the hidden legacy of problems that have plagued the agency ever since its creation. Gary Byrne says that decades of catastrophic public failures, near misses, and bureaucratic and cultural rot threaten to erode this critical organization from the inside out. Today, as it works to protect President Trump, the Secret Service stands at a crossroads, and the time needed to choose the right course is running out. Agents and officers are leaving the Secret Service in droves, or they're being overworked to the point where they lose focus on the job. Management makes decisions based on politics, not the welfare of their employees. Byrne believes that this means danger for the men and women of the Secret Service, danger for the President they protect, and danger for the nation. In this book, he shares what he has witnessed and learned about the Secret Service with the hope that the problems of this most important agency can be fixed before it's too late.

Author : Dan Emmett
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466843172

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Within Arm's Length: A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President by Dan Emmett Pdf

A rare inside look at the Secret Service from an agent who provided protection worldwide for President George H. W. Bush, President William Clinton, and President George W. Bush Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret Service agent—one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the President, if necessary. Within Arm's Length is a revealing and compelling inside look at the Secret Service and the elite Presidential Protective Division (PPD). With stories from some of the author's more high-profile assignments in his twenty-one years of service, where he provided arm's length protection worldwide for Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush, both as a member of the PPD and the Counter Assault Team, Dan Emmett describes the professional, physical and emotional challenges faced by Secret Service agents. Included are never before discussed topics such as the complicated relationship between presidents, first ladies and their agents, the inner workings of Secret Service protective operations as well as the seldom-mentioned challenges of the complex Secret Service cultural issues faced by an agent's family. Within Arm's Length also shares firsthand details about conducting presidential advances, dealing with the media, driving the President in a bullet-proof limousine, running alongside him through the streets of Washington, and flying with him on Air Force One. Within Arm's Length is the essential book on the United States Secret Service. This revealing and compelling inside look at the Presidential Protective Division, along with spellbinding stories from the author's career, gives the reader an unprecedented look in to the life and career of an agent in America's most elite law enforcement agency.

Author : Ronald Kessler
Publisher : Forum Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307461360

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In the President's Secret Service by Ronald Kessler Pdf

After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time. Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carry out their missions--from how they are trained to how they spot and assess potential threats. With fly-on-the-wall perspective, he captures the drama and tension that characterize agents’ lives and reveals what they have seen, providing startling, previously untold stories about the presidents, from John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as about their families, Cabinet officers, and White House aides.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015090378673

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The United States Secret Service and Presidential Protection by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security Pdf

Author : Melanie Fields
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 163485778X

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The United States Secret Service by Melanie Fields Pdf

The United States Secret Service (USSS) is tasked with a zero-failure mission: to protect the President and other protectees at all costs. For most of its existence, USSS has strived to complete that mission while simultaneously garnering the respect and admiration of the American people. Secret Service agents and officers earned a reputation as stoic and impervious guardians of our government's most important leaders. The American public's respect for the agency diminished following the April 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, which attracted significant media attention and exposed systemic problems within the agency. Since then, several incidents have made it abundantly clear that USSS is in crisis. The agency's weaknesses have been exposed by a series of security failures at the White House, during presidential visits, and at the residences of other officials, including Vice President Biden and former presidents of the United States. The Committee's investigation found that problems that undermine USSS's protective mission predate and postdate the misconduct in Cartagena. The Committee also found that at times agency leaders have provided incomplete and inaccurate information to Congress. This book examines four incidents in detail: a November 11, 2011, incident where an individual fired several shots at the White House from a semiautomatic rifle; the April 2012 misconduct in Cartagena, Colombia; a September 16, 2014, incident at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, where an armed contract security guard with a violent arrest history rode in an elevator with President Obama and later breached the President's security formation; and a March 4, 2015, incident where two intoxicated senior USSS officials-- including a top official on the President's protective detail--interfered with a crime scene involving a bomb threat just outside the White House grounds. Furthermore, the book provides information on USSS funding and staffing because congressional attention has turned to the USSS and its operations due to several recent incidents.

Author : Carol Leonnig
Publisher : Random House
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780399589010

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Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work—the determinative work—in this field. . . . Terrifying.”—Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6—by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today—from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and excellence would not last forever. By Barack Obama’s presidency, the once-proud Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mistakes and alarming lapses in judgment: break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing into the windows of the residence while confused agents stood by, and a massive prostitution scandal among agents in Cartagena, to name just a few. With Donald Trump’s arrival, a series of promised reforms were cast aside, as a president disdainful of public service instead abused the Secret Service to rack up political and personal gains. To explore these problems in the ranks, Leonnig interviewed dozens of current and former agents, government officials, and whistleblowers who put their jobs on the line to speak out about a hobbled agency that’s in desperate need of reform. “I will be forever grateful to them for risking their careers,” she writes, “not because they wanted to share tantalizing gossip about presidents and their families, but because they know that the Service is broken and needs fixing. By telling their story, they hope to revive the Service they love.”

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Vice-presidents
ISBN : UCR:31210018767564

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Former Vice President Protection by United States Pdf

Author : Robert A. Fein,Bryan Vossekuil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Assassination
ISBN : PURD:32754071529394

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Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment Investigations by Robert A. Fein,Bryan Vossekuil Pdf

Author : Dan Bongino
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642939668

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Protecting the President by Dan Bongino Pdf

Being a Secret Service agent is one of the most treacherous jobs in the world and never more so than in today’s highly polarized America. Facing threats from fence jumpers and manifesto writers, and from fanatical terrorists and sophisticated spies, protecting the president is harder than ever. In an age of hyper-partisan politics, emotions are high and crazies are a dime a dozen. On top of that, with international tensions reaching a boiling point, it’s harder than ever to determine friend from foe. Yet the President of the United States is in very real danger if the Secret Service doesn’t change course soon and evolve with the rapidly changing threat environment. Highly motivated “bad guys” are already working on technologically advanced methodologies and are constantly striving to formulate the logistics of an attack on the White House. Eventually terrorist planners will find a way to acquire the technology, weapons, explosives, and know-how to make an attempt on the life of the President. The only question is “What are we going to do about it?” Protecting the President provides not only a rare insider glimpse of what the Secret Service does, but explores the challenges facing the agents today. Chock-full of relevant stories of protecting past presidents, veteran agent Dan Bongino explains how the agency can best protect the president today. This book covers how the Secret Service should • plan for a tactical assault by a terrorist attack team • prepare to respond to a severe medical emergency • train to handle a chemical or biological weapon attack • prepare for an attack using explosives • plan for 9-11 style attacks from the air and fire threats • and much more

Author : Philip H. Melanson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037660458

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The Politics of Protection by Philip H. Melanson Pdf

Author : Maria Goodavage
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101984734

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Secret Service Dogs by Maria Goodavage Pdf

US members of state are protected by service dogs and their handlers. Secret Service Dogs shines a spotlight on some of these canine heroes, from Hurricane, a Belgian Malinois with four titanium teeth, to Roadee, a little terrier mix with a big attitude. It's a must-read for dog lovers and anyone who wants a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most captivating programs of the United States Secret Service.

Author : Dennis V. N. McCarthy,Philip Wayne Smith
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066046593

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Protecting the President by Dennis V. N. McCarthy,Philip Wayne Smith Pdf

Describes the rigorous training designed to eradicate an agent's intolerable stress of the job, the grueling hours, and more.

Author : Michael A. Endicott
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439219753

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Walking with Presidents by Michael A. Endicott Pdf

Walking with Presidents: Stories from Inside the Perimeter, by Michael Endicott, chronicles the extraordinary career of an American original. From 1967 until 1986, author Michael Endicott sat watch over Presidents, Vice Presidents, and a Secretary of State. In these years, across a hundred foreign nations, and through every state of the Union, author Endicott carried out his duty during some of the most harrowing times of the Twentieth Century. From Vietnam, political assassinations, Presidential scandal, and retirement discussions with former President Nixon, Endicott has seen it all and has lived a life worthy of a Hollywood movie. Walking with Presidents puts a personal face on those who were protected and a very public face on the inner workings of the U.S. Secret Service. The result is a fascinating and intimate portrait of a man, his times, and the noble spirit of those who serve and protect. This is a gallant book sure to please memoir fans and history buffs alike.

Author : Henry Holden
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0760322937

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To Be a U.S. Secret Service Agent by Henry Holden Pdf

The Secret Service was established after the Civil War by the Treasury Department, originally to protect American currency against counterfeiters. After the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, Congress directed the Secret Service to protect the President of the United States. Protection remains the primary mission of the United States Secret Service. It takes a special type of individual to be a U.S. Secret Service agent, one willing to "take a bullet" to preserve the ideals on which the United States was founded. To Be a U.S. Secret Service Agent lifts the curtain for a look inside this secretive law enforcement agency, including the highly selective recruiting, the intense training, and the specialized weapons and equipment used to protect current and past Presidents, Vice Presidents, their families, and visiting heads of state.