http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/secretservice/ en-us Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:27:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087843/posts The FBI searched the residence of the son of a Democratic state lawmaker in Tennessee over the weekend looking for evidence linking the young man to the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087843/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:27:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084882/posts Memo to US Secret Service: Net proxy may pinpoint Palin email hackers Not quite Anonymous By Dan Goodin in San Francisco Posted in Security, 18th September 2008 01:22 GMT Memo to law enforcement investigators tracking down who broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account: Gabriel Ramuglia might be a good place to start. The 25-year-old webmaster and entrepreneur is the operator of Ctunnel.com (http://ctunnel.com/), the browsing proxy service used by the group that hacked into the vice presidential candidate's personal email account and exposed its contents (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/anonymous_hacks_sarah_palin/) to the world. While he has yet to examine his logs, he says... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084882/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:47:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084853/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate... The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.... MyWay http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084853/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:30:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2076176/posts So does anyone know yet what the Palin family's Secret Service code names are? I assume that for Sarah herself, there can be no other: BARRACUDA. The First Dude might like SLED. Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2076176/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:12:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069925/posts Excerpt - The Faulkner County Sheriff's Office and other local law enforcement have joined a search for a man from the Mount Vernon-Enola area who ran from Secret Service agents. Faulkner County Sheriff Karl Byrd said the man may have a gun and has lately been calling the sheriff's department acting as if he is mentally disturbed. "He has called us with strange calls, 'This is Kenny Chesney. Someone stole my tour bus.' Or, 'This is Lt. Gary Moore. I found Kenny Chesney's tour bus in a shed.'" ~ snip ~ "He had a thing for Chelsea Clinton. I don't... thecabin.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069925/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:03:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065236/posts August 19, 2008 55 charged in multi-agency agency probe targeting use of peer-to-peer networks to exchange child pornography LOS ANGELES - Federal and local authorities arrested seven men for possession of child pornography today as part of an ongoing multi-agency investigation spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI that has resulted so far in the filing of charges against 55 defendants who allegedly used peer-to-peer networks to exchange sexually graphic images of children. The charges stem from a seven-month probe led by ICE and the FBI that also involved assistance from numerous other federal and local... Ice.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065236/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058941/posts <p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say a North Carolina man will undergo a psychiatric evaluation after being jailed on a charge of threatening to kill Barack Obama.</p> <p>Federal documents identified the man held Friday as 48-year-old Jerry M. Blanchard. A criminal complaint says witnesses overheard Blanchard twice last month threatening to kill the presumptive Democratic nominee.</p> The London Guardian/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058941/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 07:31:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057151/posts <p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-A newspaper is asking John McCain's campaign why a black reporter assigned to cover a rally was singled out by security and told to leave a backstage area.</p> <p>Stephen Price, a reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat, was among four Florida capital press corps reporters behind the scenes at a Panama City rally Friday when a Secret Service agent approached and asked if he were part of the national media traveling with McCain. Price said no, and the agent told him he had to leave. Price said he then pointed out that there were other state reporters in the same area, but was still told to leave. The other reporters were white.</p> The Dallas Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057151/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 01:15:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042767/posts Who read Free Republic? Apparently the U.S. Secret Service does!This past weekend, I posted an article alerting the Secret Service that members of the terrorist supporting group Code Pink were using fake presses to gain access to events headlined by Secret Service protectees like presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (AZ).This morning, McCain spoke at the LULAC convention in Washington, D.C. Usually when he speaks at an event in D.C., McCain can expect to have his speech disrupted by Code Pink activists who rush the stage and heckle him from the audience and the press section.That didn't happen today.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042767/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 04:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028645/posts The Secret Service, mindful of the historic presidential candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the threat of terrorists striking high-profile targets, is providing the earliest and most expensive day-to-day protection for the major presidential candidates and their spouses in U.S. history. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, who authorized the protection, said plainclothes Secret Service agents, drawn from a pool of 3,300, backed by some of the 6,500 uniformed Secret Service officers, are providing candidates "the protection they need" during the protracted presidential campaign. Candidates are not entitled to U.S. Secret Service protection by law until 120 days before... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028645/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:08:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000846/posts New York, Apr 13, 2008 / 02:28 am (CNA).- Massive security operations will protect Pope Benedict XVI in his visit to New York City, including bomb-sniffing dogs, rooftop snipers and hovering helicopters, CBS News reports. "The closer you are to those locations, the more you are going to feel the effects of it," said NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly.A reporter asked Kelly if the security for the visit will be like a United Nations General Assembly, followed by a parade, followed by a presidential visit, Kelly said “yes.”On Friday the Pope’s visits to the United Nations, the Park East Synagogue,... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000846/posts#comment Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:32:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013895/posts WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Supervisors in the U.S. Secret Service exchanged e-mails with racist jokes, some of them sexual, a document filed in federal court Friday said. The filing came in a discrimination lawsuit filed in 2000 by 10 black Secret Service agents, The New York Times reported. upi http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013895/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 03:40:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004511/posts Honestly, this is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen. The DVD and music-sharing website World Star Hip Hop is currently featuring a video of what appears to be an elementary school student threatening to kill President George W. Bush. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004511/posts#comment Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:41:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989153/posts ** EXCERPT ** Two State Department employees were fired recently and a third disciplined for improperly accessing electronic personal data on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Bush administration officials said yesterday. ~snip~ A similar data breach took place in 1992 when State Department officials looked up data on presidential candidate Bill Clinton, in an attempt to find out information from the late 1960s, amid unfounded political campaign rumors that Mr. Clinton had sought to renounce his citizenship to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. That incident triggered a three-year investigation by a... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989153/posts#comment Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:51:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976044/posts A Texas state Capitol employee who police said wanted to go in the building Friday before a rally by presidential candidate Barack Obama threw a bowl of egg salad at a U.S. Secret Service agent who denied her access, according to an arrest affidavit. Tracy Firsching, 47, is charged with assault on a peace officer, a third-degree felony for which she faces up to 10 years in prison. According to the affidavit, Firsching started to go around police barriers when she was stopped by Secret Service agent Brian Sanders, who told her that she could not go in the secured... www.statesman.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976044/posts#comment Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:20:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974215/posts DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the... Star-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974215/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:10:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973783/posts Floyd M. Boring, a Secret Service agent who guarded five presidents and took part in the gunfight that foiled an attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists to assassinate President Harry S. Truman, died Friday at his home in Silver Spring, Md. He was 92. His death was confirmed by the Collins Funeral Home of Silver Spring. On the afternoon of Nov. 1, 1950, Truman was taking a nap at Blair House, where he was living while the White House, across Pennsylvania Avenue, was being renovated. Boring was stationed outside Blair House with several uniformed White House guards, while two Secret Service... Atlantic Journal Cont http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973783/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:44:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964882/posts DENVER -- No one can agree on what exactly happened the day a Colorado man spotted Dick Cheney strolling the streets of a ski resort town and decided to give the vice president a piece of his mind. Steve Howards, 55, says he walked up to Cheney and delivered his message -- "Your policies in Iraq are disgusting" -- then lightly touched the vice president's shoulder. The White House photographer says he saw Howards slap Cheney on the back. Cheney's personal aide remembers Howards placing his hand on Cheney's arm and shaking his hand. As for the Secret Service agents... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964882/posts#comment Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961725/posts Brattleboro Town Officials Harassed Over Bush-Cheney Arrest Petition BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Town officials in Brattleboro are being inundated with complaints from across the country about a decision to let voters decide whether arrest warrants should be issued for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Town Clerk Annette Cappy said the "nastiness" of the calls prompted the town office to stop answering its phones Monday. One message from a Minnesota man said he'd like to see terrorists cut off the heads of some Brattleboro officials. Brattleboro police said they will prosecute anyone whose messages cross the line and... WPTZ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961725/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1949256/posts Much has been made in the past about how poorly the Clinton's got alond with their Secret Service detail while the Bush's got along well with their agents. Now that Obama is under the protection of Secret Service agents, I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about how he ineracts with them. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1949256/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:11:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945476/posts Four cardinal principles of security violated, say Indian experts Praveen Swami New Delhi: While PakistanÂ’s Ambassador to the United States, Mahmud Ali Durrani, maintains that Pervez MusharrafÂ’s government provided “unprecedented security” to Benazir Bhutto, Indian security experts disagree. Speaking to The Hindu, a senior Special Protection Group official who reviewed available footage of the attack described Ms. BhuttoÂ’s security as “dismal, almost as bad as if it was designed to facilitate her assassination.” Set up in the wake of Indira GandhiÂ’s assassination, the elite SPG provides security to both serving and past Indian Prime Ministers and their families. e-mail to... The Hindu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945476/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:55:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943210/posts YOU WILL FIND THE SECRET SERVICE VIEWS ON THE PERSONALITIES OF PAST PRESIDENTS TO BE QUITE INTERESTING. For those who don't know... Capt. Denny Keast flies for UAL and flew many SAM's (Special Air Mission's) for the White House. Some of us flew these Presidential Support Mission. The only thing they left out was the pain in the ass communication people..........Shem I flew 4 Presidential support missions in the C-141 out of Dover AFB, DE.. Two for President Johnson and two for President Nixon. Johnson was a first class jerk and on the two occasions I flew for him, if... Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943210/posts#comment Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:57:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886236/posts No politician of recent decades could match the Clintons for sheer audacity and brazenness. Time and again, they appear in front of the cameras to declare an alternative reality, which Americans are then supposed to accept, based solely on the volume with which the Clintons shout its existence. Hillary’s outrageous new campaign ad, which recently began airing in Iowa, stands as the latest example of the relentless and despicable Clinton political strategy. In her ad, she seeks to sound alarms with the message "As I travel around America, I hear from so many people who feel like they’re just invisible... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886236/posts#comment Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:53:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860999/posts OTTUMWA, IA -- Iowa police arrested a man outside the hotel where Barack Obama spent Tuesday night after the man was confronted by Obama's Secret Service detail. Ottumwa Police Lieutenant Tom McAndrew said Davit Zakaryan, of Cincinnati, Oh., was charged with illegally possessing a concealed knife more than 8 inches long after he was arrested for failing to produce a drivers license Wednesday morning. "We have no reason to think he was a threat at all," Lt. McAndrew said. Zakaryan, 24, in a white undershirt, was pacing outside his small, black car with Ohio license plates when Obama's security detail... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860999/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:07:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851107/posts TSA Officers Hassle Female Passenger over Sippy Cup?Watch the actual surveillance from Reagan National Airport. Decide for yourself! YouTube Video online. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851107/posts#comment Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:07:01 GMT