Kamala doesn’t deserve Secret Service detail
I served nearly a decade on Secret Service protective details. That included guarding the lives of President Bush and Obama as well as former presidents Clinton, Ford and Carter. From that vantage point, President Trump’s decision to end protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris is notable but not shocking. It returns her status to what the law sets as the default and reflects how the protective mission is managed in practice. Federal law provides former vice presidents with Secret Service protection for six months after they leave office. After that window, the Secretary of Homeland Security can authorize temporary protection if conditions warrant it. That is the baseline professionals in the field plan around.
