Life inside the bubble why a top-ranked Secret Service agent walked away from it all

Summary: He swore to take a bullet for the President and left it all behind to take a bullet for the American people Why would a successful, twelve-year Secret Service agent resign his position in the prime of his career to run for political office against all the odds? Why is it that the Washington DC ""Bubble,"" a haze of lobbyists, cronyists, staff, acolytes, consultants and bureaucrats surrounding the President, which creates a ""Bubble"" that distorts his view of the world and detaches him from the tragic results of his poor policy choices? Finally, why the Fast & Furious scandal, the bombing.

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ISBN: 9781938067372 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1938067371 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (204 p.)
Publisher: New York : WND Books, 2013.

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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgments; 1 Early Years; 2 NYPD Blue; 3 In the Line of Fire; 4 The End of the Clinton Era; 5 9/11; 6 An Assassin Among Us; 7 Training the Next Generation; 8 Dignitary Protection and the Fight to Protect; 9 The "Big Show": The Presidential Protective Division; 10 Transportation: It's Not Simply about Motorcades; 11 The President's Life in My Hands; 12 Missile Treaties and the Return to Indonesia; 13 Oil Spills, Indonesia Again, and Making a War Zone "Safe"; 14 Media Spin vs. Security Reality; 15 Giving Back the Gun and Shield