Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
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- Create Date：2021-05-20 00:19:10
- Update Date：2025-09-07
- Status：finish
- Author：Carol Leonnig
- ISBN：B08M4DY3QW
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Reviews
Linda Galella
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Investigative Reporting Takes A DetourI haveappreciated other books by Carol Leonnig because she reports fairly and mostly without personal bias。 That’s not my opinion of this effort， “Zero Fail”。Beginning with her information on Kennedy， it does not agree with what I have come to understand is the most accepted information regarding his relationship with his Secret Service detail。 Opinions do differ and information does change over the years， but her facts aren’t ringing true for me。Johnson， Ni Investigative Reporting Takes A DetourI haveappreciated other books by Carol Leonnig because she reports fairly and mostly without personal bias。 That’s not my opinion of this effort， “Zero Fail”。Beginning with her information on Kennedy， it does not agree with what I have come to understand is the most accepted information regarding his relationship with his Secret Service detail。 Opinions do differ and information does change over the years， but her facts aren’t ringing true for me。Johnson， Nixon， Regan， Carter， Bush - these presidents all had their own special needs for Secret Service intervention， （some much more than others！）， and the book is historical and anecdotal in its reporting of the evolution of this organization。 I’d forgotten some of the incidents even tho’ I’ve lived thru them all。 During these years there’s lots of growing and changing pains for the organization as the country does the same but there’s also an air of decorum and pride。 Enter Clinton。Changes in the Secret Service during Clinton’s presidency are shocking， much like he was。 It became a boys club， a frat house that traveled internationally; a national embarrassment。 Quite frankly， based on information provided to Leonnig， I cannot imagine why anyone wants to serve in this thankless capacity。Bushes and Obama are slightly better but not by much。 9/11 is a significant drain on the organization and the economic down turn withholds much needed resources and technology upgrades for years。 There are an host of events to read about in these chapters that had me cringing。Leonnig is able to report all of these issues from both Republican and Democratic presidents and remain neutral until she reaches the last chapter on Trump。 All professional distance disappears。 It’s like reading MSNBC or CNN。 I should have stopped at the 84% mark。 Most of what she says is media hyperbole and not her well researched prose。 Sadly， Leonnig is a victim of her own industry and this effort is diminished because of it📚 。。。more
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