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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 17 Jul \ on: "Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service" by Carol Leonnig BooksAndArticles
Secret Service was created in 1865 to combat counterfeiting.
They became presidential bodyguards after McKinley assassination in 1901.
A big reason for their recent dysfunction is moving from treasury to homeland security
They've been headed in that direction for decades, though, and never really recovered from the Kennedy assassination. It's a good book that's worth a read.
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2003 is when they moved to Homeland Security
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