Secret Service Took Psychic's Advice on Bush Assassination Plot

Secret Service Took Psychic's Advice on Bush Assassination Plot

By Jeff Stein | July 31, 2009 2:20 PM

The Secret Service changed a motorcade route for the first President George Bush based on a psychic's vision that he would be assassinated, according to a new book about the presidential protective agency.




"In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect," by veteran author Ronald Kessler, evidently is stocked with such juicy items, considering the steady drip of leaks about the book over the past few weeks.


It's a curious development, considering that the White House protective detail is supposed to see everything but say nothing about its main client, the President of the United States.


But Kessler, a former investigative reporter at The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal and author of several "inside" books on U.S. intelligence, has obviously drilled a hole in the Secret Service's wall of silence, which began crumbling in earnest a few years back with former agents telling tales about President John K. Kennedy's mistresses.


Today Kessler passed along the following anecdote about the psychic, the Secret Service and the 1992 reelection campaign of Bush, taken from his new book, scheduled for publication Aug. 4.


(A Secret Service spokesman at first told SpyTalk it was "false," which he later amended to a far less strenuous denial: "It doesn't make sense.")

Fortune telling is a big big "no no" in the Bible (of course, for such an "anti-divining" stance, the Bible does it's fair share of speaking about the future).

Don't forget Nancy Reagan consulted with an astrologer and I believe the date of at least one piece of legislationn signing was changed due to said astrologer.

Didn't we foot that bill for seven years?

Since Kessler works for Newsmax.