It is the first time that any intelligence service, anywhere in the world, has allowed an historian to read through its files and record his or her findings.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
An internal Congressional Research Service report says that the Secret Service does not that have the resources to deal with the unprecedented number ...
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California man remained in federal custody without bail Friday after being charged with sending racist, profanity-lac...
The Washington Post | Liza Mundy | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.-The dental office of Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq., is in a low-slung complex in a quiet planned community in Orange County, al...
Julie Farby | Posted 10.02.2009 | Technology
OMG, what in sweet heavens has happened to our favoritest Facebook? The once friendly and innocent social networking site has suddenly morphed into a...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
At any other time and with any other president, the Facebook poll might be shrugged off as a sick joke. But this is not another time or another president.
Politico | Eamon Javers | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently invoked the grim specter of political violence, arguing that today's angry political climate could cause people to...
Geri Spieler | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Thirty-four years later, the Secret Service is still trying to understand the mind of that 45 year old woman, mother and doctor's wife who aimed and shot at Gerald Ford.
Minnesota Independent | Chris Steller | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Packing two pistols, a Rogers man with a Twin Towers tattoo on his arm spent seven hours Saturday among protesters outside Target Center, where Presid...
CBN News | David Brody | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Maybe you've heard about this "sermon" or maybe you haven't. But before we go any further let me just say one thing: this guy is absolutely nuts. Ste...
Robert Siciliano | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media
Federal investigators say that the hacker, Gonzalez, had been tipping off other hackers on how to evade detection of security and law enforcement worldwide; he had accessed 170 million accounts.
The Hill | Jordy Yager | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restriction...
Paul Helmke | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Robert Gibbs' cavalier response to protesters carrying guns to presidential events was tone-deaf. This isn't a political issue and it isn't about the Second Amendment.
Geri Spieler | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Two women, two potential presidential assassins, are free today, 34 years after they attempted to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford.
Geri Spieler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Imagine he was Muslim and waiting for Bush with a gun. How long would that guy have lasted? You think they'd let him just sit there and wait for Bush?
Alexander Dresner | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
It has been said that the mark of good leadership are those who try to predict the future. What the Secret Service needs are individuals who attempt to predict various futures.
Telegraph | Toby Harnden | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and und...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Last month, the New York Post reported that a new book depicted President George W. Bush's daughters as a nightmare for Secret Service agents. Now ano...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
Even by nut case standards, Reverend Wiley S. Drake's public prayer for the death of President Obama stretched far past the outer limit of credulity.
Geri Spieler | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
Is an extremist tall, short, young, old, thin, fat? Would you know if the person standing next to you was about to pull out a gun and shoot? Scary ...
Posted 07.01.2009 | Media
NBC's Lester Holt did a report on the Secret Service for the "Today Show." Holt takes an in depth look at their training and the great lengths they go...
Geri Spieler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
If you were standing on that sidewalk next to Moore when she was 45 years old, would you have expected her to pull a gun from her purse, aim and pull the trigger at the head of the U.S. President?
Geri Spieler | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Sara Jane Moore missed Gerald Ford's head with a bullet by a mere six inches. Someone like her didn't raise any alarms on a street corner in 1975, and wouldn't today.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
Democrats are elitist, right-wingers insist, even if they are needy enough to receive not just college, but high school scholarships. In this case, the proof of Obama's elitism was his request for Dijon.
Rani Singh | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books