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Author of The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents,  Ron Kessler went on CSPAN's Washington Journal today to discuss the lapse, and lack of, security at the White House -- calling it a "corrupt" and "mismanaged" culture. As news of yet another security breach at the White House, potentially putting the lives of the the President of the United States and the First Family in jeopardy is revealed, Kessler says that "an assassination could happen pretty easily." Earlier this summer, Secret Service (SS) came under fire for being too lax when a broken window was found by a staff member, that later revealed the White House had been shot at several times by one Oscar Ortega  -- (see also Michelle Obama furious over Ortega event).   The latest security lapse came when it was revealed that a knife-wielding Omar J. Gonzalez   jumped the White House fence, in broad day light, bolted up the front lawn, i...

So, this is how The Secret Service gets down? This isn't the first time, nor is it a secret, that the U.S. Secret Service has been suspected of soliciting prostitutes.  In 2008, a prostitution sting in the area of 11th and K Streets, NW around 12:50 a.m. found a marked Secret Service Uniformed Division patrol car had stopped to speak with an undercover female officer who was posing as a prostitute. The patrol car was driven by a Uniformed Division sergeant.  The NSID officers assumed he was going to tell the undercover female officer to leave the area. Find out what happened next. Today we find that more than a dozen Secret Service personnel traveling with President Obama to Cartagena, Columbia, while he attends the Summit of the Americas , have been released amid allegations of 'sexual misconduct'. The Associate Press received an anonymous tip about the incident.  Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan has neither confirmed, nor denied, any wrong-doing.  Whi...

First Lady Michelle Obama visited the headquarters of the agency that protects her and her family, the United States Secret Service . The First Lady thanked the agents for their service. "You all have really made us feel at home and safe, and there is no amount of thanks that I could convey that would give you a sense of how important you all are to us", she expressed. After seeing how much goes into their work Mrs. Obama said, "So often the rest of the country, they don’t know what you do, they don’t know how the Secret Service works. How many people are behind what happens, whether it’s filing or looking at terrorists." Apparently the visit into the work of the Secret Service was a bit intimidating, and overwhelming, even for the First Lady. "I mean, the work you do here is pretty scary, let’s just say that. All I can say is, after my little tour is, ignorance is bliss. I just don’t want to know. You all can handle all that; just tell me whe...