Secret Service Agents also are not legally bound to stay silent once they leave government service.
There has always been an unspoken policy to not disclose information about U.S. presidents and the policy is generally upheld with some past minor breeches or two. Plus the Agency's retired-agents organization appears to uphold this "honor" concept also.
However, Secret Service Agents are required by law to speak out if they are witness to any illegal wrongdoing by those they are assigned to protect.
Leni
Thanks for clearing that question up. It sounds similar to the Armed Services. Troops do not have to follow obviously illegal commands and can/should report such commands.
Seeing the modern culture produce sloppy Secret Services boys serving any presidency, and as advance teams for them, as in Rio, boozing with prostitutes, makes writing tell-all books the least surprising. You know what I am saying?
If this author witnessed illegal activities, must he profit for reporting it, decades after the fact?
I was just thinking he may have reported it at the time, and maybe nothing was done about it. That would be news, but much of the Clinton’s behavior is broadly known. He will need to come up with some new material in his book, or embellish the old. Lol.
Anyway, I’m a hopeless romantic who wants to keep the SS on
the traditional pedestal of the old days.
Thx, MG!
THANKS!
I did not know this!
It is a shame that this American hero will be involved in a deadly crash in a few week, eh?
I wonder why he has waited so long to publish this... he might have saved an ambassador - and perhaps our Middle Eastern policies - not to mention incredible security breaches.