Jenna, Barbara Bush Were Secret Service Nightmare: Book

A new book by Ronald Kessler claims the Bush twins gave Secret Service agents lots of trouble.

"Jenna would purposely try to lose her protection by going through red lights or by jumping in her car without telling agents where she was going. As a result, in a total waste of manpower, the Secret Service kept her car under surveillance so agents could follow her," he writes, according to a New York Post preview.

In his book "Bush's Law," New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau wrote that the Secret Service worked with Mexican government agents to help a 19-year-old Jenna Bush go on a bar-hopping trip south of the border. The story was set to run in a major newspaper on September 12, 2001; it was never published.

Kessler, a former reporter for the Washington Post, now writes for the conservative website Newsmax. His book, "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect," comes out in August.

Before leaving office, President Bush signed a directive authorizing the Secret Service to provide a period of extended protection for Jenna and Barbara.

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Comments

[AN2009]

09:52 PM on 07/26/2009

Yawn. This isn't even a real news story.

[writeon1]

08:23 PM on 07/23/2009

Don't you just love these urban myths? And, who cares anyway? http://newsy1.wordpress.com

[JacklynD]

02:47 PM on 07/23/2009

Stupid and irrelevant story

[trinity]

12:09 PM on 07/23/2009

Sounds like they were being typical crazy teenagers, not wanting to be watched over by adults. However, I wonder if these problems of protection were debriefed to the President and his wife. They were their parents, not the Secret Service agents.

[mwoman]

08:46 PM on 07/23/2009

Good point.

I get the impression their parents let them get away with anything they wanted to do then.

That's why they were so wild.

Hm.

Maybe they calmed down now.

Who knows?

[Collielady]

08:58 AM on 07/23/2009

Keep in mind that taxpaying families were footing the rich twins' shenanigans while the financial carpet was being pulled out from under said families.

[AlexFTW]

08:46 AM on 07/23/2009

Those Bush girls, always good for a cheap fu...er, laugh.

[educatedfoolz]

11:29 PM on 07/22/2009

Jenna and Barbara asked for George Dickel and Ezra Brooks to be their Secret Service agents.

[mwoman]

08:52 PM on 07/23/2009

Are you kidding?
I have no idea who those people are.
Gotta go look them up now!

Like I don't have better things to do with my time!

[Martampa]

10:09 PM on 07/22/2009

With the name Bush what can you expect from these two.

[DoctorWhoDat]

08:43 PM on 07/22/2009

I heard that Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan wouldn't lower themselves to the Bush twins standards.

[Labsaregreat]

09:44 PM on 07/22/2009

You are a real class act. Leave the kids alone

[Clayton139]

09:59 PM on 07/22/2009

They grew up as UN-Supervised Rich Brats !
Now they are women that are the same kind of Rich Brats !

[Collielady]

09:00 AM on 07/23/2009

The Bu$h tw!ns were anything BUT a class act, just like the mentioned celebrities.

[Collielady]

08:56 AM on 07/23/2009

LOL

[tpfahler]

07:49 PM on 07/22/2009

It must be true if someone wrote it.

[pageleft]

06:18 PM on 07/22/2009

This story was to run on 9/12/01. So that's why Bush allowed 9/11 to happen. Who knew?

[Labsaregreat]

09:44 PM on 07/22/2009

Kind of like FDR and pearl harbor

[mwoman]

08:54 PM on 07/23/2009

I can FEEL the humor in those 2 sentences.
Awesome.

[freetomato]

04:00 PM on 07/22/2009

Not surprised at all. I know a girl who was a Seabee assigned to Camp David. She told me about what rude, bratty jerks those girls were, and how condescending they were to her and the other Seabees assigned there. They treated them like slaves and had no regard for the fact that someone had to pick up the tremendous messes they left after their parties. Just a typical sense of entitlement of the rich, I guess.

[Marilynleigh34]

08:24 PM on 07/22/2009

You kind of just make it up as you go...right?

[trinity]

12:06 PM on 07/23/2009

There were Seabees assigned there, one of my former Navy buddies was assigned there with the Marines. I never talked to him about the behavior of the Bush Twins so who knows...

[mwoman]

08:56 PM on 07/23/2009

You know, I was kind of thinking the same thing you were thinking, when I was reading that comment.

[ManUtd]

03:30 PM on 07/22/2009

Who cares? This is the stupidest thing I have ever read. Besides, any President's children should be off limits.

[mwoman]

08:58 PM on 07/23/2009

But it must have some interest for you, right?
You wouldn't be here, if it didn't.

[johio]

02:30 PM on 07/22/2009

If the Obama girls are out of bounds for this kind of story then the Bush girls should be as well. They were teenagers and I don't know about you, but I did plenty of stuff in those years that I'm glad no press was around to see and publish. You can despise her father's actions as president - and I do - without picking on his kids.

And Chelsea Clinton also received extended secret service protection past the end of her father's term. That's as it should be. Let the proper people make that call based on their knowledge and the situation. For any of us to assume we can judge the rightness of that call is ridiculous.

[SimonOne]

02:36 PM on 07/22/2009

Yeah, but these brats purposely trying to slip away from their Secret Service detail? I say one warning them let them fend for themselves. Of course, the privileged always think they can live by their own rules... but not when my taxes are paying their bills!

[johio]

02:41 PM on 07/22/2009

Just two points: first - you're basing this on the fact that someone is writing a book claiming it to be true. Doesn't make it so. Second - why call them brats? you don't know them so why use the nasty language?

[mwoman]

09:03 PM on 07/23/2009

That sounds really HAUGHTY of you.

LIke you're the only one who is paying taxes or something?

[applecider10]

05:11 PM on 07/22/2009

As a teenager I can say that them trying to lose the long arm of their parents (in their minds, anyway), the ss, is definitely not that crazy. Irresponsible? Ungrateful? Probably. But kids need to do it this way sometimes.

As for their characters in general, I can't vouch either way, so I won't.

[Klaus1]

02:24 PM on 07/22/2009

Laura Bush killed someone while driving drunk in Texas at age 19; the fruit does not rot far from the tree. At least the Bush girls haven't killed anyone . . .yet.

[mwoman]

09:04 PM on 07/23/2009

Hey, man. Do you have a link for that?

[Klaus1]

04:31 PM on 07/24/2009

There are TONS of them, but here is one:

http://www.inquisitr.com/11043/fact-check-laura-bush-killed-a-guy/