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The United States Secret Service (USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security tasked with conducting criminal investigations and providing protection to U.S. political leaders, their families, and visiting heads of state or government. [3]
Joseph LaSorsa, a retired Secret Service agent who served from 1976 to 1996 and was on Reagan’s protective detail, said the post-Reagan era also saw the increased use of metal detectors for ...
The Secret Service does not determine who qualifies as a "major candidate" to receive protection—this is a decision made by the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with an advisory ...
This protection limitation was reversed in early 2013 by the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012. [3] All living former presidents and their spouses after Dwight D. Eisenhower are now entitled to receive lifetime Secret Service protection. Their children are entitled to protection "until they become 16 years of age". [4]
Before 1979, Secret Service vehicle convoys for VIPs in high-risk situations included a large sedan known as the "muscle car" in which five or six Secret Service special agents armed with sub-machine guns rode. The "muscle car" team was an ad hoc contingent drawn from special agents working at a local Secret Service office, as opposed to those ...
On Sunday, a Secret Service agent opened fire on the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, after spotting a rifle poking out of the bushes outside the course where Trump was golfing near his Mar-a-Lago club.
A USSS Uniformed Division police officer and a USSS Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor near the White House in 2012 A 2013 Ford Police Interceptor of the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division is pictured outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in July 2013 Secret Service Ford Taurus Secret Service Ford Police Interceptor Utility A U.S. Secret Service "counter-sniper" marksman on top ...
The arm of the Secret Service that protects presidents, vice presidents and their families is nearly 10% smaller than it was a decade ago despite warnings from Congress and a government watchdog ...