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Presidential Assassinations | Interview | 5

American History Tellers

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What I Learned From Your Investigative Reporting

A group of secret service agents protecting president Obama were shipped home unceremoniously and under investigation leaving Cartagena in Colombia. While they were supposed to be protecting the president, they actually were getting hammered drunk and hiring prostitutes Kivording in their hotel rooms with these strangers. They'd never met before That was all in the hours before president Obama arrived in 2012; I was asked to help a colleague figure out what in the world happened during that weekend. In the course of that I met a lot ofsecret service agents who Felt that we weren't accurately describing what had happened. We built a lot of trust and what I learned is that they were worried about something even bigger than

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