Reassigned to our task force. In the reassignment, he sat down with me, boss, i have a real good case, i think. Could i explain it to you. Investigation led to harris resident, tom wilson. Wilson, was part of a gang. Part petitionary in atlanta, he was able to negotiate. Make deals, methamphetamine delivered, money transferred from inside prison. The meth involved was incredibly pure. When we had a purity done in the ice samples, it was in the mid 90s. At the time, we had it done, it crystal meth. And wilsons number two was stacy howell. You would think at least one of the guys charged in connection thats because in 2010, blew up his grandmothers house with, you guessed it a meth lab. He was severely burned in the explosion and fire, but it didnt stop him from dealing. Wilsons dealers used motorcycle gang members, outlaws, to deliver the drugs and money across seven states. The. Know the federal indictment said distributed in excess of five kilos of methamphetamine. Thats how they char
Service. And yet over the past couple of decades the reputation of the cervix is to have taken a beating. Im hoping we can get down to what is happened with the service and what can be done to fix it. So now, please join me in welcoming karol and evan. Karol good to be with you, congratulations on the book. Thinking so glad to beer with evan. s direct think of the book is great. Its not only great read but i learned a lot. Honestly im embarrassed as a political junkie and history buff i feel like i should have known more of this than i did. Let me off the hook, how much of this did you know before researching this book . To have to say i really got into this and beats by accident looking at something in 2012 of a terrible scandal. I was really shocked almost every time i delved into another presidency and theres something new to learn. Sometimes there is heroin assume, it was security debacle. As you say this was an outgrowth of your reporting for the post on the president ial trip to
Tv documents americas story and on sundays book tv brings you the latest nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan2 come from these Television Companies and more including natco. Metco along with these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Welcome i am Elizabeth Christian i am ceo of Elizabeth Christian Public Relations and advice chair of the lbj foundation. On behalf of the lbj foundation in the obj library it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight for an evening with, tonight we are really lucky to have carol, she has just written a book about the secret service and a good friend evan smith, ceo and founder of the Texas Tribune is going to be interviewing her tonight about this. What we know lady bird and Lyndon Johnson had the highest possible estate for the secret service, Dwight Eisenhower found him calling them soldiers without uniform. The last couple of decades the reputation of the secret service was taking a beating. Im hoping that carol can real
To south america, will get to that and i want to ask you what about that story struck a chord . Obviously not everything you write for the paper that it has a book in mind. The secret service story, when i was drawn into this in 2012 he was the two sides of the coin. These are patriots who we all think are ethe elite of the elite or at least thats a hollywood impression but are now super fit, sunglasses, but as i did more and more reporting i found out there was a lot of seriously concerning facts. They are willing to take a bullet for the president but a lot of times they were dodging the bullet a lot of times they were covering up, not the secrets of the president but their own mishaps, their own misconduct. Host someone i was h thinking about was the immediate environment we are in today the carol leonnigs of the world tell laus everything so we donthave to worry. We see both the visible part of the iceberg and submerged part but in times past when there were not carol leonnigs and