My memory is bad, so pardon me if someone has posted the REPLY TO THE POST’S QUESTION TO THE AP REPORTER this is the response:
Update, May 21, 8:58 p.m. EDT: The Post & Email has received a response from the Associated Press regarding the question we posed to Mark Niesse about the allegation of his involvement in creating what could be a forged birth certificate for Obama. The response reads:
Ms. Rondeau,
I am Vice President for Global Security at the Associated Press. I would be more that willing to discuss this subject with you. Since you are a journalist, I would also refer you to AP’s Director of Media Relations Paul Colford at (212) 621-1895.
Thank you.
Danny Spriggs
Vice President, AP Global Security
450 W. 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 621-7613
The Post & Email will contact both Mr. Spriggs and Mr. Colford, who was copied on the email, on Monday morning. Both appear to be located in New York City.
It MUST BE serious, they are bringing in the heavy weight on this one...
Associated Press (AP)
The Associated PressAssociated Press: see news agency.
“Danny Spriggs brings to AP a wealth of experience in security-related tactical, operational and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. ,” said AP President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Tom Curley Tom Curley is the current president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press - one of the most powerful men in media. Curley is also a former president, publisher, and one of the co-creators of USA Today. . “AP journalists cover conflicts in every corner of the world, and he will help us deal with the growing risks involved in practicing journalism.”
Spriggs’ immediate responsibilities include coordinating with the campaign staffs of Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama for AP’s April 14 annual meeting, where the two presidential hopefuls will separately address in Washington, D.C., the newspaper and broadcast membership of the not-for-profit news cooperative.
Carlton Daniel Spriggs spent 28 years in the Secret Service, starting as a special agent with the Albuquerque, N.M. field office and working his way up to deputy director in Washington, D.C. in 2002. In that role — the No. 2 position in the agency — he helped carry out the presidential executive order transitioning the Secret Service from the Department of the Treasury to the newly created Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
Homeland Security
executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States before he left in September 2004.
The next month Spriggs went to the Federal Reserve in Philadelphia, part of the nation’s central bank. He stayed until 2007 as assistant vice president, managing the regional bank’s protection department and overseeing a uniformed force of Federal Reserve law enforcement officers whose duties included the security of the facility.
During Spriggs’ Secret Service career, he also served in Washington and White Plains, N.Y., before joining the managerial ranks in 1991 as special agent in charge of the Philadelphia office, and advancing to such positions in the nation’s capital as deputy special agent in charge of the vice presidential protective division and assistant to the special agent in charge of the presidential protective division. He routinely coordinated with military and law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). in other countries when he was engaged in advance security work for trips by the president and vice president as well as visiting foreign heads of state.
The Department of Treasury recognized Spriggs with its Special Act Award for his performance during the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt on the life of President Ronald Reagan.
A native of Washington, D.C., Spriggs earned a bachelor’s degree in education/university studies at the University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. . He began his law enforcement career in 1974 as a police officer in Albuquerque, N.M. Among his affiliations are the International Association of the Chiefs of Police, the U.S. Marine Corp Law Enforcement Foundation and the National Organization of Blacks in Law Enforcement.