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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]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Every child and grandchild of a current president receives Secret Service protection, Eckloff explained. While the children of former presidents aren’t guaranteed a detail after they turn 16, ...
Secret Service protection for Obama began after he received a death threat in 2007, while serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois and running for president. This marked the earliest time a candidate received such protection before being nominated. [1]
A group of top congressional leaders has recommended that Republican candidate Nikki Haley receive protection from the U.S. Secret Service after she reported a growing number of threats during her ...
Between the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and the swearing-in of Hubert Humphrey as Vice President on January 20, 1965, McCormack was first in the line of succession, thus he received Secret Service protection. [29] In January 1969, Arizona congressman Morris Udall attempted to unseat McCormack as Speaker. [20]