Zero Fail convincingly argues that the men and women who guard the president, the vice-president and their families are overworked. The response: “They were just being idiots.” Trump asked their supervisor, “These guys weren’t being pervs, right?” Leonnig tells of agents taking selfies with Donald Trump’s sleeping grandson. The Secret Service’s motto? “Worthy of Trust and Confidence.” There are incidents of shots being fired into the White House, an intruder making it into the building and an agent on Mike Pence’s detail hooking up with a hooker. In 2015, a pair of soused senior agents crashed an official car into the White House complex. In 2009, Michaele and Tareq Salahi slipped through White House security, attended a state dinner and met Barack Obama. It paints an alarming portrait of those dedicated to protecting the president and offers a comprehensive look at an agency that has seen better days. Now she delivers her first solo work, Zero Fail. She also worked with Philip Rucker on A Very Stable Genius, one of the better and more informative books on Donald Trump’s time in the White House. She won a Pulitzer for her reporting on security lapses at the Secret Service, including the “Vegas bachelor party” in South America, and was part of the Washington Post team that scored a Pulitzer for its work on Edward Snowden’s war on the National Security Agency. Six agents were dismissed, another six disciplined. Rather, it was the most glaring episode in an accumulation of horribles. Disturbingly, the debacle in Colombia was not a one-off, as Carol Leonnig makes clear.
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