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  United States Secret Service: History
Secret Service responsibilities were broadened to include "detecting persons perpetrating frauds against the government." This appropriation resulted in investigations into the Ku Klux Klan, non-conforming distillers, smugglers, mail robbers, land frauds, and a number of other infractions against the federal laws.
Secret Service was officially acknowledged as a distinct organization within the Treasury Department.
Secret Service operatives began to investigate the western land frauds.
www.secretservice.gov /history.shtml   (866 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: US Secret Service   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The United States Secret Service is a United States federal government law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security (prior to the foundation of that department in 2002, it was under Treasury).
The Secret Service has primary jurisdiction over counterfeiting of currency and US Government bonds and notes, and the provision of bodyguard services to the President, Vice President, their immediate families, past presidents and their spouses, certain candidates for the offices of President and Vice President, and visiting foreign heads of state (all called "protectees").
The Secret Service was commissioned on July 5, 1865 in Washington, D.C., to suppress counterfeit currency, which is why it was established under the United States Department of the Treasury.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/US-Secret-Service   (915 words)

  
 United States Secret Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States Secret Service (often abbreviated S.S.) is a United States federal government law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security (prior to the founding of that department in 2003, it was under the United States Department of the Treasury).
The Secret Service was commissioned on July 5, 1865 in Washington, D.C., to suppress counterfeit currency, that is why it was established under the United States Department of the Treasury.
The United States Secret Service Uniformed Division is similar to the Capitol Police and is in charge of protecting the physical White House grounds and foreign diplomatic missions in the Washington, D.C. area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_Secret_Service   (1274 words)

  
 US Secret Service Agents To Swear A Privacy Oath [Free Republic]
ABC Radio report tonight states that US Secret Service officers will now be required to swear an oath and sign a paper requiring them to keep private things they witness in the course of their duties.
The secret service needs to wake up to who they work for-- not the man but the office, not the man but the people of this country.
Secret Service May Ask Agents To Pledge Silence 01:49 p.m Jul 03, 1999 Eastern WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Secret Service is considering requiring new agents to sign a pledge that they will not discuss what they see and hear while protecting a president, Director Brian Stafford said Saturday.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a377ec8cc7732.htm   (1382 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Protecting the US president abroad
However, the incident highlights the difficulties in protecting the US president when he is not on his home territory and the US Secret Service says it is investigating the incident.
The US Secret Service insisted on checking all guests, including the president of the Chilean Senate and the heads of each branch of the Chilean armed forces and their wives for weapons, before allowing them to dine near Mr Bush at the presidential palace.
US security agents may now, however, caution the president against appearing at such a public event in the near future.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4535911.stm   (821 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - International - Inquiry blows cover on slackness of US Secret Service
A Secret Service agent and an air force enlisted man were shot and wounded when they got into a brawl in a public toilet in August 1999.
US News also revealed that violations have occurred in the White House, where agents on the elite counter-assault team have watched pornography in a basement room after posting a lookout.
Six current Secret Service staff said in sworn statements that their then-director, Lewis Merletti, and current director, Brian Stafford, each of whom had headed Mr Clinton’s security detail, were involved in intimate relationships with women working at the White House.
news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=630922002   (756 words)

  
 Hackers and the U.S. Secret Service
Then, due to Secret Service sealed warrant procedures, Netizens who have their computers seized often find themselves stuck in legal limbo; most are not arrested but rather kept "under investigation," while their computers remain with law enforcement.
If a discussion of the Secret Service's involvement with hackers is to lead to any conclusion about the efficacy of federal police action, we may have to juxtapose controversial law enforcement practices against the ideological backdrop upon which many hackers operate.
The theory that high profile Secret Service enforcement practices may not deter, but actually bolster interest in illegal hacking to a greater extent than any private bulletin board on the subject could, may not be far fetched.
www.gseis.ucla.edu /iclp/bfox.html   (4192 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | US Secret Service sued for racism
The US Secret Service, whose duties include protecting the life of the president, is being sued by its fl members for alleged racism and discrimination.
But the Secret Service, founded in 1865, has denied the accusations saying it was proud of its reputation for diversity.
Robert Moore, currently a US marshal for the southern district of Alabama, said he left the service in 1993 because he did not feel there was any chance of advancement.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/904179.stm   (352 words)

  
 United States Secret Service
The U.S. Secret Service and Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute's CERTR Coordination Center have announced the findings of the first Insider Threat Study report, a collaborative effort to better understand insider activities affecting information systems and data in critical infrastructure sectors.
The Secret Service is seeking dedicated men and women with diverse backgrounds for its Uniformed Division Police Officer position.
Following a three-year partnership between the Department of Education and the Secret Service, a joint report reveals that incidents of targeted violence in schools are rarely impulsive and attacks are typically the end result of a process of thinking and behavior that often can be detected by others.
www.treas.gov /usss   (429 words)

  
 U.S. Secret Service's Other Job: Fighting Fake Money
The Secret Service was charged with restoring public confidence in the currency.
The Secret Service recently busted a counterfeit ring in North Hollywood in which $700,000 was passed to the public.
U.S. Secret Service employees, such as this agent, are the first and last line of defense for the U.S. President against all threats, large and small.
news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/10/1022_041022_tv_secret_service.html   (710 words)

  
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But, it held that the Secret Service did not "intercept" the E-mail in violation of Title I of the ECPA, 18 U.S.C. s 2511(1)(a), because its acquisition of the contents of the electronic communications was not contemporaneous with the transmission of those communications.
Critical to the issue before us is the fact that, unlike the definition of "wire communication", the definition of "electronic communication" does not include electronic storage of such communications.
For communications that are maintained by a remote computing service and that have been in storage for more than 180 days, the government can gain access by obtaining a warrant, by administrative or grand jury subpoena, or by obtaining a court order pursuant to s 2703(d).
www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /6095/assorted-short-pieces/sjg-appeal.txt   (3422 words)

  
 United States Secret Service: Financial Crimes Division
Recent Secret Service investigations indicate that there has been an increase in credit card fraud, fictitious document fraud, and fraud involving the counterfeiting of corporate checks and other negotiable instruments,as well as false identification documents created with the use of computer technology.
The Secret Service is the primary federal agency tasked with investigating access device fraud and its related activities under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029.
The Secret Service is involved in numerous task forces with federal, state, county, city, and local law enforcement agencies nationwide.
www.secretservice.gov /financial_crimes.shtml   (3223 words)

  
 US Secret Service rounds up ID thieves - silicon.com
US law enforcement agents - cooperating with officials from the United Kingdom, Canada, Bulgaria, Belarus, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and the Netherlands - have arrested 28 suspects since Tuesday night and stressed that the investigation continues.
In August, the US Department of Justice made arrests in five states on charges of criminal copyright infringement in an action dubbed Operation Digital Gridlock, while the FBI and US Postal inspectors announced that more than 103 arrests were made in an extensive computer crimes investigation known as Operation Web Snare.
Bruce Townsend, deputy assistant director for the Secret Service, said the international breadth of the investigation is par for the course.
www.silicon.com /research/specialreports/protectingid/0,3800002220,39125417,00.htm   (796 words)

  
 United States Secret Service: Employment Opportunities
The Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency with headquarters in Washington, D.C. and more than 150 offices throughout the United States and abroad.
The Secret Service originally was established in 1865, solely to suppress the counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
Contact your local Secret Service field office or Secret Service Recruitment and Hiring Coordinating Center at 202-406-5830 or 888-813-USSS(8777).
www.secretservice.gov /opportunities.shtml   (114 words)

  
 SECRET SERVICE ANSWERS QUESTIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But Monday, March 28, the Secret Service called three everyday people into their offices to discuss why we were kicked out of a presidential event in Denver last week where Bush promoted his plan to privatize Social Security.
The Secret Service revealed that we were "ID'ed" when local Republican staffers saw a bumper sticker on the car we drove which said "No More Blood For Oil." Evidently, the free speech expressed on one bumper sticker is cause enough to eject three citizens from a presidential event.
The Secret Service also revealed that ticket distribution and staffing of the Social Security event was run by the local Republican Party.
www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=68184   (798 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - Sci-Tech - US Secret Service files hit by hacker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The hacker obtained an internal Secret Service memo and part of a mutual assistance legal treaty from Russia.
It was discovered during a broad Secret Service investigation, Operation Firewall, which targeted underground hacker organisations known as Shadowcrew, Carderplanet and Darkprofits.
Cavicchia, who won the Secret Service’s medal of valour for his actions after the September 11 terror attacks, resigned to work in the private sector.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /scitech.cfm?id=45142005   (407 words)

  
 BBC - Crime Fighters - US Secret Service   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Far from being a clandestine and secretive police force that knocks on doors in the middle of the night to investigate people that are never to be seen again, the US Secret Service (USSS) is a law enforcement agency primarily responsible for the protection of individuals and laws relating to the United States Congress.
The national currency had only existed for three years, so by 1865 the US government decided to establish the US Secret Service to investigate and safeguard the new currency against these criminals.
Various meetings of the US Congress have led to changes in the job of the USSS, but generally these have been expansions of their role to incorporate new protectees or modern hi-tech methods of counterfeiting or fraud.
www.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/ussecretservice.shtml   (742 words)

  
 Electronic Crimes Task Force Regional Locations
The role of the United States Secret Service has gradually evolved since its inception in 1865 from its initial mandate to suppress the counterfeiting of currency to protecting the integrity of the nation’s financial payment systems.
The Secret Service developed a plan of action to achieve this goal by recognizing the need for change and innovative ideas to fight the war on criminal activity through the utilization of non-traditional task forces.
The Secret Service developed a new approach to increase the resources, skills and vision by which local, state, and federal law enforcement team with prosecutors, private industry and academia to fully maximize what each has to offer in an effort to combat criminal activity.
www.ectaskforce.org /Regional_Locations.htm   (497 words)

  
 United States Secret Service
The U.S. Secret Service and Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute's CERTR Coordination Center have announced the findings of the first Insider Threat Study report, a collaborative effort to better understand insider activities affecting information systems and data in critical infrastructure sectors.
The Secret Service is seeking dedicated men and women with diverse backgrounds for its Uniformed Division Police Officer position.
Following a three-year partnership between the Department of Education and the Secret Service, a joint report reveals that incidents of targeted violence in schools are rarely impulsive and attacks are typically the end result of a process of thinking and behavior that often can be detected by others.
www.secretservice.gov   (452 words)

  
 US Secret Service busts 28 ID fraudsters | The Register
The US Secret Service singled out the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Europol for praise in supporting the investigation.
In a statement (PDF) the US Secret Service said Operation Firewall had led to the arrest of suspects in "eight states and six foreign countries" this week.
But since US authorities worked with their counterparts in the UK, Canada, Bulgaria, Belarus, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and the Netherlands we can deduce that the suspects came from one or other of those countries or the US.
www.theregister.co.uk /2004/10/29/operation_firewall   (445 words)

  
 Steve Jackson Games v. US Secret Service
He concluded, and testified firmly at trial, that during the week of March 20, 1990, when the Secret Service still had Illuminati, the BBS was run, and every piece of e-mail was individually accessed and deleted.
The Secret Service was sued under two important laws which embody the same principles as the First and Fourth Amendments -- the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 and provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
Of course the Secret Service misunderstood or exaggerated the importance of the purloined E911 document, and were chasing imaginary goblins.
www.sjgames.com /SS/pdk-article.html   (2476 words)

  
 Hacker breaches T-Mobile systems, reads US Secret Service email - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was quietly charged with the intrusions last October, after a Secret Service informant helped investigators link him to sensitive agency documents that were circulating in underground IRC chat rooms.
The case arose as part of the Secret Service's "Operation Firewall" crackdown on internet fraud rings last October, in which 19 men were indicted for trafficking in stolen identity information and documents, and stolen credit and debit card numbers.
The US Secret Service, which played the dual role of investigator and victim in the drama, said Tuesday it couldn't comment on Jacobsen because the agency doesn't discuss ongoing cases - a claim that's perhaps undermined by the 19 other Operation Firewall defendants discussed in a Secret Service press release last fall.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=177838   (439 words)

  
 The Protagonist Community -> LJ user Gets Night Visit from US Secret Service   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door to talk to me about what I said about the President, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as a threat to his life.
The Secret Service agent told me as much last night — the reason why they were there was because the FBI received a report about my post.
I have, however, contacted an attorney simply because I want to ensure that my rights are protected in the future, and because the Secret Service were less than clear about what exactly can be construed as a threat and what would be done with my FBI file and any medical records they requested.
babble.the-protagonist.com /index.php?showtopic=7710   (2385 words)

  
 US Secret Service Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The US Secret Service is seeking to hire Special Agents nationwide.
Don't despair raises are automatic and the US Secret Service pretty much garrantees you'll be earning about $65,000 within five years.
If the Secret Service is not your cup of tea then go to the site www.usajobs.opm.gov for other Special Agnet jobs in the federal government.
www.haitiglobalvillage.com /sd-ma-working-ny/_Posting/0000002b.htm   (160 words)

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