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Is the Secret Service a Praetorian Guard that can abet an imperial president in sleaze and coverup?
Nor is it simply a chance for any city official to indulge a personal taste for martial law, surrounding himself with a hunky praetorian guard, manly men whose manliness glistens in the light of their boots, burnished to a fine sheen by the sweaty exertions of muscular comrades in arms who--I'm sorry.
This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's "Praetorian Guard"--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.
How about letting a judge decide the question case by case, suggests Evan Thomas ( Inside Washington ). Do we really want the president to have a publicly funded Praetorian Guard?
a) Fought Starr subpoena too hard because it considers itself the Praetorian Guard.