President Obama’s Boeing 747 isn’t just transport. It’s a mobile command center outfitted to handle everything from a nuclear …
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Political Pictures of the Week, July 27 – Aug. 3
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Political Pictures of the Week, July 7-13
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Scandal vs. Scandal: Obama Might Be Glad the Secret Service Is Overshadowing the GSA
For the past week or so, the news media have hyped two government scandals with very different implications. The first is the revelation that some workers at the General Services Administration (GSA) have found a way to turn …
Secret Service Scandal: When Bureaucrats Behave Badly, Politicians Sense an Opportunity
For President Obama, the allegations that Secret Service agents cavorted with Colombian prostitutes is a nuisance. For assignment editors, it is a golden goose: a salacious scandal involving an elite, clandestine organization, …
Follow-up: Free the White House Press Corps!
The White House Correspondents Association followed up with the White House on my experience the other day, and I now have something of an official explanation of why I was repeatedly denied access to the citizens in the audience at President Obama’s health care speech near Philadelphia. The interference, I am told, was “unintentional …
Inside the Secret Service
This is way more than 1,000 words. In this photo essay for LIFE, Brooks Kraft gives us an inside view of the lives of the Secret Service agents who protect the President. It’s worth a clickthrough, though this one is my favorite.
1,000 Words: Gate-crasher Edition
The White House has put out this photo of gate-crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi meeting the President in the receiving line of last week’s state dinner. So, Swampland commenters, what do you think they were saying here?:
After the jump, statements from the Secret Service and White House spokesman Nick Shapiro: