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Anonymous source offers theories on Secret Service No. 2 exit

Matthew Quinn will leave the agency on November seventh, as threats against the president rise and counter-drone preparedness draws renewed scrutiny; his replacement has not been named.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDeputy Director Matthew Quinn leaves the Secret Service on November seventh, and tonight the reaction is mostly anonymous, which brings us to a man in a parking garage.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe is a source familiar with the matter, so I have to ask what you actually know about why Quinn is leaving.

  3. Barnaby OstrowskiI can neither confirm nor deny. But I can confirm this garage charges nine dollars after the first hour, and I am on level three, which I should not have said.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou just told a national audience your level.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo let me ask again, because the agency faces rising threats against the president and questions about counter-drone preparedness. What do you know about that?

  6. Barnaby OstrowskiI'm unable to comment on that either way.

  7. Barnaby OstrowskiBut I can confirm I am holding a document, and it is stamped with the time I entered, and I believe that makes it classified.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSir, that's just a parking receipt.

  9. Barnaby OstrowskiA validated parking ticket, which is the highest clearance there is.

  10. Barnaby OstrowskiI can neither confirm nor deny that I learned all of this from a push alert at dinner.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the whole inside story is that you read the same alert as everybody else, in a car.

  12. Barnaby OstrowskiNeither confirm nor deny. Hold on, the gate is lifting. Please never say I was here.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSir, you were on live television, on level three, for four minutes.

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