security

The Secret Service conjures up images of Clint Eastwood in “In the Line of Fire.” You think of clean cut, unsmiling men with conservative suits, earpieces and hidden weapons that flank the president wherever he goes. These are men and women who, as we’ve seen, will take a bullet for the people they protect. See Ronald Reagan’s assassination attempt as an agent moves toward the gunman, making himself a figurative meat shield. That’s guts. That’s brave. That might even be crazy. Created in 1865 by Abraham Lincoln to combat the deluge of counterfeit money, the Secret Service was given the ...