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Article: Struggling to fix the Secret Service: W. Ralph Basham's daunting task is to overhaul a Secret Service culture tainted and demoralized by the Clinton administration's utter disregard for security procedures. (The nation: national security).
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- Insight on the News
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- March 4, 2003
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As the nation is on the brink of war and the danger of an attack on the homeland mounts, the Bush administration has made an important personnel change that many say was long overdue. It finally has replaced the Clinton appointee who headed the U.S. Secret Service for almost four years with a distinguished law-enforcement veteran of its own choosing.
Brian Stafford, who was appointed in 1999, quietly announced his resignation in December in the face of scrutiny from U.S. News & World Report about Secret Service morale and from INSIGHT about problems with a new access-control system pushed through in the final months of the Clinton administration.
Many ...