![]() ![]() “Zero Fail,” a history of the agency by the Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, is a devastating catalog of jaw-dropping incompetence, ham-fisted mismanagement and frat-boy bacchanalia. One might think that this owes something to the competence and professionalism of the Secret Service, the agency we depend on to protect our leaders. And yet, since Reagan’s close brush with a deranged gunman in 1981, no American president has been caught in the cross hairs of an assassin. Kennedy in the 1970s and ’80s, the near-fatal shootings of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. In the 1960s came the slayings of John F. ![]() ![]() The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service By Carol LeonnigĪnyone of a certain age can remember when assassination was a tragic fact of American political life. ![]()
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