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McGrath is the only person who has filed objections to the plant. He said he has gotten little support in his fight against the plant...
...ever grudged these small, valet-style acts, but in the past couple of years Secret Service agents have been pressed into performing quite different chores. "They've gotten their responsibilities out of perspective," says one former White House aide who worked closely with the agency. "Sometimes they're overprotective." Some examples of their work...
Atlanta's Sgt. Wood cites a recent case in which a man was on trial for selling drugs to an undercover agent. "The jury wanted to know why we hadn't gotten a picture of the buy and why we hadn't gotten fingerprints from the packet," he fumes. "But that's not the way it works. You don't go out and shout, 'I'm an undercover agent buying dope!' Buys take place in dark alleys, and that little plastic bag they wanted us to get fingerprints from was greasy...
...gotten used to it now, though, and it has forced me to look at my own participation primarily in terms of an individual sense of accomplishment," he adds...
...would be inclined to. I don't want to make any hard commitment on that until the investigation is completed and we've gotten the verdict of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. I would be somewhat inclined to go along on somewhat pragmatic grounds in that I think it may be the precondition for either a presidential resignation or for impeachment...