![]() ![]() Please note: This recording contains unedited language of an adult nature. ![]() Elliot Bay’s Rick Simonson moderated the program. ![]() The Elliott Bay Book Company presented this event on May 23, 2021. She is interviewed here by NBC and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff. One takeaway is that the agency is "calling out for help."Ĭarol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Washington Post. 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. Nearly two hundred thousand people spilled across Buffalo's largest downtown square, angling for a glimpse of the most famous man on earth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Leonnig interviewed former and current agents and managers in her reporting for the book. Zero fail : the rise and fall of the Secret Service by Leonnig, Carol, author. In recent times, the agency famed for its dedication to "take a bullet" became better known for a tendency to dodge bullets. For her new book Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, journalist Carol Leonnig argues that the once heralded agency is in dire need of reform and renewed support.Ĭosts of financing the agency rose during the Trump administration, and a historically apolitical force showed partisan and ethical cracks. Efforts to prevent such killings are pressure-filled. The United States has a dark history of political assassinations. ![]()
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