maybe we ll hundred der down outside and wait for the cavalry. how was this pipe bomb missed by the advanced team responsible for sweeping that location. to be sure, with the construction of this particular device, the odds of that going off at the exact moment that harris was driving buy in one of these secure battle wagons, the threat to her wasn t as high as it could have been had she been walking around. the second part, on the flow of information. the secret service has a no-fail mission. these are highly trained professionals with one of the most critical jobs in government. for those of us that cover the agency, we know oftentimes in response to our questions, they rely on one standard response and that is we don t talk about protective operations. that s fine in some circumstances. here, you can t fail to response to something because the answer to your question might be embarrassing for the agency. finally, questions for harris as