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Bush twins Jenna and Barbara were 'Secret Service nightmare', claims new book

President George W. Bush's twin daughters were a Secret Service nightmare, a new book claims.

Jenna and Barbara Bush would pull every trick imaginable to lose their security detail it has been claimed.

'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,' author Ronald Kessler writes in 'In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.'
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)