Jenna, Barbara Bush Were Secret Service Nightmare: Book

[RamboLiberal]

A new book by Ronald Kessler claims the Bush twins gave Secret Service agents lots of trouble.

"Jenna would purposely try to lose her protection by going through red lights or by jumping in her car without telling agents where she was going. As a result, in a total waste of manpower, the Secret Service kept her car under surveillance so agents could follow her," he writes, according to a New York Post preview.

Kessler, a former reporter for the Washington Post, now writes for the conservative website Newsmax. His book, "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect," comes out in August.

Before leaving office, President Bush signed a directive authorizing the Secret Service to provide a period of extended protection for Jenna and Barbara.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/20/jenna-barbara-bush-were-s_n_240825.html

Kessler also claims that after a 2005 Halloween party, Jenna's now husband Henry Hager was so drunk the Secret Service had to take him to Georgetown University Hospital.

And he alleges that the Secret Service had to step in a break up a bar fight that Hager got embroiled in.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1200953/Bush-twins-Jenna-Barbara-Secret-Service-nightmare-claims-US-book-dishes-dirt-First-Families.html#ixzz0LomdDbMa

[Renew Deal]

1. I can't blame them.

It has to be difficult being that young and dealing with constant supervision.

[Warpy]

5. I'd have ditched them, too

at that age, out of sheer rebelliousness.

However, why didn't they just put GPS units on the cars? It would have made keeping up with them a whole lot easier.

I guess the low manpower, high tech solution just didn't occur to them.

[onehandle]

2. No to mention the time they found one of them passed out on the White House lawn...

...in their Hello Kitty underwear.

This was reported by hard hitting reporter, Stephanie Miller.

[peekaloo]

13. seriously?

or was it Hello Kitty Kelley underwear? :evilgrin:

[bluestateguy]

3. Let it go.

We don't need to be fighting these proxy wars about politicians' kids. There are a few more important things going on right now.

[Deja Q]

I feel sorry

for the secret service.

Where the hell were their parents, to discipline them?

Or at least Laura, who at least gave the impression of having some functioning brain cells...

[Renew Deal]

7. You're assuming the parents were told this was happening.

That's a major assumption.

[Deja Q]

11. Good point...

[RamboLiberal]

8. I think they were old enough to not be under parental discipline

And I'm not bashing them btw.

[HopeHoops]

4. Why didn't they just put a damn GPS tracker in it?

Let her play her games and then just casually follow the blinking red dot.

[rvablue]

6. It's been reported that Ron Reagan, Jr. did the same thing...who cares?? n/t

[TexasProgresive]

9. Come on- At their age who wouldn't do the same. n/t

[Deja Q]

12. Nerds, geeks, dorks, dweebs... other well-behaved losers... me...

:P

[TexasProgresive]

15. Does that include geeks who delight in finding work arounds

to copy DVDs and other such behavior?

[Javaman]

10. Without giving any names...

there was someone that I knew of that worked in the SS.

those kids would go make a "score" in east Austin on a regular basis.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. You know Amy Carter hated the SS detail too

and made a game of ditching them.

Let it go

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. How cute! It sounds like Jenna married a man just like her Daddy.

:puke:

[Orsino]

17. I don't believe it.

I hardly think that reckless actions that endanger others, or attempts to elude governmental oversight, run in their family.

[WI_DEM]

18. the Johnson girls used to evade the SS, too.

[devilgrrl]

19. Ronald Kessler - isn't this the same asshole who wrote about troopergate?

I'm no fan of the Bush twins but this guy sounds like an asshole.

[Mike Daniels]

20. Not one source quoted beyond the reporter himself

Yeah, I'm going to give a lot of weight to someone who writes for Newsmax.

I would imagine that there's some unsupported crap on Chelsea Clinton in the book as well.