41.   The decision, which followed months of deliberation, drew immediate criticism from Republicans who accused the attorney general of trying to protect the president.

42.   The identity of the Secret Service agent, part of the contingent protecting the president, also was not released.

43.   The people who protect the president have turned their attention to school violence.

44.   The Secret Service has testified before, but it has always limited that testimony to its own activities in protecting the president.

45.   The Secret Service protects presidents.

46.   The Secret Service protects the president and investigates counterfeiting.

47.   The Secret Service has claimed that its employees should not be questioned because any breach in White House confidences would make it harder for agents to protect the president.

48.   Their defection left any White House strategy to protect the president in a shambles.

49.   Their defection left any White House strategy to protect the president in shambles.

50.   Those efforts should extend from protecting the president on his morning jog to protecting him and his family in the White House which belongs to all American people.