By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s a downside to the White House being hip to social media. The Associated Press reports that the Secret Service is investigating three threatening messages that were posted on the White House’s Facebook page. The messages, first reported by WNBC in New York, included a photo of Osama bin Laden and…
By PAUL BEDARD and LAUREN FOX U.S. News & World Report Racism and the nation’s white hot political environment that has sparked bitter division in Washington and a political assassination attempt in Arizona have raised concerns about President Obama’s safety on the campaign trail, according to a former top U.S. marshal and retired…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes the Secret Service acts like over-protective parents when it comes to its protectees. Vice President Joe Biden complains in the October issue of Car and Driver Magazine that the Secret Service won’t let him drive around town in his beloved 1967 green Corvette. “The Secret Service won’t let me drive…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legal battle goes on for two Secret Service agents in a case stemming from a 2006 visit to Colorado by Vice President Dick Cheney. The Associated Press reports that the two agents are asking the Supreme Court to declare them immune from being sued in a First Amendment lawsuit. The…
Raw video from the Associated Press shows members of the Secret Service scrambling on the Whites House after Tuesday afternoon’s earthquake. The people on the roof are members of the Secret Service Countersniper Team, who are specially trained Uniformed Division officers.
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service really does watch out for its protectees like a parent — particularly when it comes to the President. David Nakamura of the Washington Post reports that President Obama wanted to sneak off and make a surprise visit Tuesday evening to the Duck City Bistro in Davenport, Ia., to tip…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The good news: At least Daneil L. Valencia wasn’t driving the President around. The bad news: The Secret Service agent, who lives in D.C., was busted in Decorah, Ia. on Saturday for drunk driving after running a red light about 1:30 a.m., according to the Des Moines Register. President Obama visited…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Greyhound it ain’t. The U.S. Secret Service has purchased a new $1.1 million bus that President Barack Obama is using for his travels through the Midwest, the Associated Press reported. The AP described the bus as “an impenetrable-looking conveyance the size of a cross-country Greyhound, painted all in black, with dark…
