The Scarlet Letter
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by Noah Rothman / Jul 07 2011
Last Tuesday, Daniel Bongino, a thirty-six-year-old former Secret Service agent, announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland in 2012, against first-term Sen. Ben Cardin.
Bongino, who is also a former New York City police officer, has long ties to the area and, as a former government employee, can relate to many inhabitants of the state who work for the federal government. However, Maryland is a particularly blue state, which gave