Secret Service agents enjoy SoulCycle with Steve Mnuchin, who wants to control his agency / Boing Boing

Buried in the Los Angeles Magazine profile of Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's idiot wife Louise Linton was a gem, recently highlighted in a New York Times piece today.

From the Los Angeles Magazine piece:

Do you travel with lots of security these days?

Only when my husband is around. Every time he goes out he has to travel in this endless motorcade. A bunch of Secret Service guys track him when he comes to L.A. But when he goes, they all go with him and let me be all alone. (Laughs.) There are even these little yellow kits equipped to handle emergencies and explosions that come together when Steve is in town, and then poof, they disappear as soon as he leaves. No one is really anyone who is worried about saving me! (Laughs.)

Does Secret Service Follow Him Everywhere?

Approximately! They especially like to come to SoulCycle. They take all the bikes around Steve and just pedal away! One day when we were there Perez Hilton was also there. He later wrote a stupid item that blew us to take so much security on the taxpayer dime. I would call him and say, "You know we don't make our own security decisions, Perez? These decisions are made for us!"

Oh yeah, and Mnuchin is trying to take control of the Secret Service.

The US Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security.

The secret service used to be under the control of the Treasury.

In 2003 during the Bush administration and a few years after 9-1[ads1]1, Secret Service was moved to the Department of Homeland Security.

Mnuchin has pushed Trump back to move, executive officials told the New York Times.

Discussions between the Treasury, the White House and high-ranking secret officials have taken place over the past year and have intensified in recent months, as Mr. Trump has pushed home security officials to focus on the influence of immigration and excluded something to not do it.

The president supports the idea of ​​moving the secret service back to the Treasury, where it was until 2003, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Agency, which had been part of the Treasury for over 100 years, was transferred as part of the Homeland Security Act, which attempted to consolidate security agencies after September 11, 2001 attacks.

And note this section:

Some senior employees at the Department of Homeland Security have pushed back on the move, worried about losing an agency that has cyber security and investigative components. The department, which oversees the security agency Cybersecurity and Infrastructure, is responsible for protecting the country from cyber attacks and securing election security, as well as enforcing the immigration law.

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