The protective mission of the Secret Service is vital to the national security of our country. It is the foundation upon which the rest of our free democracy functions.
At a recent church service, a close relative mentioned to me that the president-elect needs to clean house at the U.S. Secret Service and staff it with vetted and loyal special agents. His comment caught me, a former Secret Service special agent, off guard. I spent the entire church service thinking about how misguided and unfortunate any attempt to politicize the Secret Service would be. But I also thought about ways Trump could refocus and energize a beleaguered agency.
During my time in the Secret Service, the Counter Assault Team was the only special agent assignment that had a rigorous selection process, including physical fitness, firearms and tactical assessment. Additionally, CAT selection and basic courses had very high attrition rates. Pass the physical and tactical assessments, and you continue. Fail and you go back to your previous assignment Training for Presidential Protective Detail or the Vice-Presidential Detail had no such training requirements.
Those in favor of the Secret Service keeping an investigative profile argue that this is where junior special agents learn the basics of law enforcement, interviewing skills, reading human behavior, conducting surveillances, etc., before applying those skills during protective missions. I worked with dozens of agents when I was assigned to the Washington field office that rarely, if ever, conducted an investigation.
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