Bush twins: Secret Service 'nightmare?'

The Bush twins gave the Secret Service a run for their money in the White House, according to a new book about the job of protecting the president.

"Jenna would purposely try to lose her protection by going through red lights or by jumping in her car without telling agents where she was going,'' Kessler writes, according to a preview of the book in the New York Post. "As a result, in a total waste of manpower, the Secret Service kept her car under surveillance so agents could follow her.''

"The author claims that at a 2005 Halloween party, Henry Hager, Jenna's boyfriend and soon-to-be-hubby, got so drunk the Secret Service took him to Georgetown University Hospital. He also got boozed up with Jenna in a Georgetown bar and picked a fight with several other patrons, with agents having to intervene to avoid a brawl.''

Asked if Barbara, Jenna, or Hager had any comment, Sally McDonough, Laura Bush's press secretary, told Kessler, "I am making a formal request that you do not include any of this nonsense in your book."

In another book, Bush's Law, New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau wrote that the Secret Service worked with Mexican government agents to help a 19-year-old Jenna Bush go on a bar-hopping trip south of the border. The story was set to run in a major newspaper on Sept. 12, 2001, the Huffington Post notes, but it was never published.