The Secret Service is the U.S. agency charged with protecting the president. John Kiriakou, who worked alongside it for 35 years, describes a culture that is “great with guns” but complacent, over-reliant on technology and lax on training.[1][2] He calls the unguarded, sloped roof at the 2024 Trump rally the agency’s worst failure since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.[2] As an example of poor follow-up he cites his friend Michael Maroulis, founder of the Service’s intelligence office, who personally visited a prolific letter-writer, Sarah Jane Moore; reassured she would not act, he let it go, and two weeks later she tried to shoot President Ford.[3][4] Kiriakou also notes the Colombia scandal in which agents on an advance trip hired prostitutes and refused to pay.[5]
Secret Service
The U.S. agency protecting the president; John Kiriakou, who worked alongside it for 35 years, describes a culture of complacency and poor follow-up — from the unguarded roof at the 2024 Trump rally to the case of Sarah Jane Moore.
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