Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from It All

Dan Bongino grew up on the tough streets of New York City, patrolled them as a member of the NYPD, and eventually found himself inside the most protected bubble in the world: the Presidential Protection Division of the United States Secret Service. For twelve years he served three presidents, swore to take a bullet for each of them, and watched from an intimate distance as the Washington machinery operated in ways that had almost nothing to do with the American people it was supposedly serving. Then he resigned, in the prime of his career, with a family to support, to run for the United States Senate against the Maryland Democratic machine. In Life Inside the Bubble, Bongino traces that journey from the streets of Queens to the Oval Office and explains what he saw along the way: how bureaucratic laziness allowed the NSA scandal to fester, how the Justice Department's reluctance to take hard cases let Fast & Furious arm criminals, how the dereliction of duty in Benghazi cost four Americans their lives. The "Bubble" he describes is not just a physical security perimeter. It is a political and social environment that insulates the powerful from the consequences of their decisions, and convinces them that what they see from inside it is the real world.