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How safe is President Obama when scumbags like Peter King are in charge of hearings.
This entire prostitute mess has me nervous.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)elleng
(131,041 posts)The United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security.[2] The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division. Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States Department of the Treasury.[3]
The U.S. Secret Service has two distinct areas of responsibility:
Treasury roles, covering missions such as prevention and investigation of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S treasury securities, and investigation of major fraud.[4]
Protective roles, ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, foreign embassies (per an agreement with the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) Office of Foreign Missions (OFM), etc.[5])
The Secret Service's initial responsibility was to investigate crimes related to the Treasury and then evolved into the United States' first domestic intelligence and counterintelligence agency. Many of the agency's missions were later taken over by subsequent agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
malaise
(269,135 posts)RagAss
(13,832 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,986 posts)or so NPR said.