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Secret Service strained as leaders face more threats
The Boston Globe ^ | October 18, 2009 | Bryan Bender

Posted on 10/18/2009 7:53:10 AM PDT by Ronbo1948

WASHINGTON - The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service, according to government officials and reports, raising new questions about the 144-year-old agency’s overall mission.

The Secret Service is tracking a far broader range of possible threats to the nation’s leaders, the officials said, even as it also investigates financial crimes such as counterfeiting as part of its original mandate.

The new demands are leading some officials, both inside and outside the agency, to raise the possibility of the service curtailing or dropping its role in fighting financial crime to focus more on protecting leaders and their families from assassination attempts and thwarting terrorist plots aimed at high-profile events.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deaththreats; obama; oppression; protection; secretservice; threats; usss
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To: Ronbo1948

Or the American version of the Nazi Gestapo.


161 posted on 10/18/2009 4:48:50 PM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: azkathy

You really need to get some help.


162 posted on 10/18/2009 5:10:43 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Quix

I alerted all neighbors to the problems.


163 posted on 10/18/2009 7:34:50 PM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

Good. THanks.

How many said they’d help watch . . . ???

How many asserted that they care etc.?

What percent. Don’t give a number.


164 posted on 10/18/2009 7:53:42 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Safetgiver

hehehehe. oops. “shoe” someone should throw a “shoe” at Obama although a show might be more... entertaining.


165 posted on 10/18/2009 10:30:48 PM PDT by RC one
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To: expatguy

To those who revered him—yes. In fact, a Hitler cult exists today in Germany and around the world.

I’m curious about the nature of your question. Why did you ask it?


166 posted on 10/19/2009 4:50:10 AM PDT by dools007
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To: azkathy

Don’t wait for the police. You don’t have to wait for the police....know what I’m talkin’ about? Yeah, THAT’S what I’m talking about!


167 posted on 10/19/2009 5:06:25 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: puppypusher

If the mob can make Jimmy Hoffa disappear...Barack Obama can make his birth certificate ‘disappear’.


168 posted on 10/19/2009 5:10:17 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: equaviator

So far so good today. I think my loud mouth, writing/reporting about it may have scared them off-temporarily.

We must soldier on, this country is under direct attack and we need to keep educating to counter the propaganda.

Thanks for all the FREEPER support!


169 posted on 10/19/2009 11:00:55 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: Ronbo1948
I have a buddy in the Secret Service and I asked him about this at Church yesterday. They classify presidential “threats” into three categories, based on the credibility of the info, and he says there is no increase in threats, and there were more threats during the campaign. What they are getting now is no worse than when W was President.
170 posted on 10/19/2009 11:08:09 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead. Bonus tag line: FAIL 246, Obama 0)
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To: Doomonyou

Thanks for the information!

So if this is true - and I have no reason to doubt that it isn’t - the alleged increase of threats against Obama are just that - and in fact are yet MORE lies told by the Leftards for political reasons.

I doubt if Obama is the only psychopath on the Left....


171 posted on 10/19/2009 1:23:00 PM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Ronbo1948
Excellent analysis. These alleged threats are manufactured from thin air.
They create a rapidly-available foundation for the Civilian National Security Force he so desperately desires.


172 posted on 10/21/2009 11:18:52 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Blue Jays

The creation of an Obama Brown Shirts(CNS) appears to be one part of the Leftard game of alleged vast number of threats against Zero, but the other part is to turn the Secret Service into a full time OBAMA SECRET SERVICE (secret police) with a total focus on The One.

As it stands now the SS also investigates financial wrong doing and hence has a dual mission. If this dual mission is changed to a single one - the “protection of the president” - a new Praetorian Guard is created that will go after ALL critics of the president, if history is a teacher.

If you’ll recall in Nazi Germany, the streets were controlled by SA - the storm troopers - and the “Protection Squads” - the Nazi SS - were originally charged with protecting Hitler and other high Nazi officials. Then “mission creep” kicked in and by the end of WW II, the SS had many divisions of combat troops, “The Death Head” units in charge of the concentration camps and their own intelligence section.

Bottom line: CNS to control the streets and the Obama Secret Service (OSS)to control everything else.

Chilling thoughts, heh?


173 posted on 10/21/2009 2:55:14 PM PDT by Ronbo1948
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