Inside the Secret Service 'shell game' to hide US presidents in plain sight

The update

Elaborate deception operations and decoys are often used to deceive potential threats to the US president

Why secret matters

This development in secret, service, shell, game, hide matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that BBC and others have been working from.

What led here

BBC notes that this did not emerge in isolation; pressures have been building around secret.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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The editorial angle

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of secret, service, shell, game, hide: Elaborate deception operations and decoys are often used to deceive potential threats to the US president.