According to a new book, Joe Biden's Secret Service detail is leaking information about where the vice president is most vulnerable to being assassinated, as well engaging in less dangerous breaches of decorum, like gossiping about when he gets naked. These are breaches of the strict privacy code usually kept by the agents.

That's my takeaway from a Washington Post article on a new book, The First Family Detail. But like journalists at Politico, Fox, the New York Daily News, the Washington Times, and Breitbart, among others, Post reporter Sebastian Payne characterized the facts I've presented differently. Here's how he judged their news value:

Vice President Biden is well known for passing himself off as a regular Joe, but apparently this regular Joe likes to indulge in a naked swim every now and then, according to a new book. In "The First Family Detail," author Ronald Kessler claims to have the skinny on Biden from Secret Service agents who protect senior politicians. "Agents say that, whether at the vice president's residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude. Female Secret Service agents find the behavior offensive," Kessler writes. "Biden likes to be revered as everyday Joe, and that's his thing" says one unnamed agent. "But the reality is no agents want to go on his detail because Biden makes agents' lives so tough." Kessler writes that Biden's "lack of consideration" means he is considered the second-worst assignment after Hillary Clinton. The book also claims Biden does not take proper security precautions in his home state of Delaware. Not wanting to disturb his neighbors, Kessler writes that Biden travels with a more limited motorcade, leaving his military aide and doctor to follow a mile behind his limousine. "What’s going to happen is either you're going to have a dead vice president in Delaware or you're going to have agents killed in Delaware because Secret Service management refused to stand up to (Biden)," says one anonymous Secret Service agent.

Boy, do I hate the coverage of this book.

A few thoughts: