Outside the Secret Service Podcast
Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min · 13 segments
Retired Special Agent in Charge Nick Steen joins the podcast this week for a fascinating conversation about a career spanning decades in state and federal law enforcement. Steen shares stories from…
But I think there was a lot of him pounding on the table saying, I need to get back to D.C. And we finally acquiesced, but only after we were pretty certain everything was calm and we could get him there safely.
You serve, you know, on the detail main and talk about you are there during some pivotal changes.
You know, by the time I, I arrived at RTC in 2000, I mean, it's just a different place, but the detail itself, man, all the secret service changes departments by the time you get to the presence on the time you leave.
I don't know that the time you really, I mean, we knew, I mean, it came out like on this date, you're in Homeland Security.
I think there was a few years later that as we were kind of butting heads with Homeland Security a little bit, that we were not, we were becoming more and more disgruntled as being part of them.
I remember talking about, they would talk to us and they would go, they would talk about conversations.
You know, it was just there was a little bit of, I guess, individualism that we kind of have because of the nature of what we do.
So I think there was a lot of that, which caused, you know, as time went by, I got more disgruntled.
But I think there was a lot of him pounding on the table saying, I need to get back to D.C. And we finally acquiesced, but only after we were pretty certain everything was calm and we could get him there safely.
You serve, you know, on the detail main and talk about you are there during some pivotal changes.
You know, by the time I, I arrived at RTC in 2000, I mean, it's just a different place, but the detail itself, man, all the secret service changes departments by the time you get to the presence on the time you leave.
I don't know that the time you really, I mean, we knew, I mean, it came out like on this date, you're in Homeland Security.
I think there was a few years later that as we were kind of butting heads with Homeland Security a little bit, that we were not, we were becoming more and more disgruntled as being part of them.
I remember talking about, they would talk to us and they would go, they would talk about conversations.
You know, it was just there was a little bit of, I guess, individualism that we kind of have because of the nature of what we do.
So I think there was a lot of that, which caused, you know, as time went by, I got more disgruntled.
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