Secret Service News

California city council candidate apologizes for threatening Obama

By theGrio

3:09 PM on 12/22/2011

The California city council candidate that threatened President Obama Monday has apologized after a visit from the Secret Service...
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Cain receives Secret Service protection after threats

By theGrio

8:44 AM on 11/18/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Herman Cain on Thursday became the first Republican presidential candidate to receive Secret Service protection...
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White House shooting suspect was 'obsessed' with Obama

By theGrio

9:31 AM on 11/17/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - A man clad in black who was obsessed with President Obama pulled his car within view of the White House at night and fired shots from an assault rifle..
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Secret Service says bullet hit White House

By theGrio

8:37 AM on 11/16/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Secret Service says it has found a bullet that hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass...
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First lady reveals family feud over Secret Service

By theGrio

4:07 PM on 10/05/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama revealed the tongue-in-cheek family feud as she paid a visit to Secret Service headquarters on Wednesday...
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Secret Service probes Facebook White House threat

By theGrio

5:10 PM on 09/11/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service is investigating three threatening messages that were posted on the White House's Facebook page...
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1st black Secret Service agent dies at age 82

By theGrio

11:50 AM on 08/10/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Charles L. Gittens, who in 1956 became the first black Secret Service agent, has died. He was 82...
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Oregon man arrested, accused of threatening Obama

By theGrio

1:37 PM on 07/06/2011

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - Darryl James Swanson has appeared in federal court to face charges that he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and the president's family...
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GOP rep condemns 'shoot Obama' question

By theGrio

5:31 PM on 02/25/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Paul Broun, a conservative who has harshly criticized the president, confirmed that at a town hall event a man asked, "Who's going to shoot Obama?"...
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UFC fighter who wanted to fight Obama gets Secret Service visit

By theGrio

6:32 PM on 01/07/2011

Huffington Post -Jacob Volkmann, the MMA fighter who said that he wanted to "knock some sense into that idiot" President Obama during a recent victory interview...
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State dinner crashers try to steal spotlight again

By theGrio

1:28 PM on 05/20/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Media-hungry couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi attempted to crash the Obama administration's second state dinner, but were quickly stopped by Secret Service...
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Ala. teacher uses Obama assassination in geometry

By theGrio

2:44 PM on 05/18/2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Secret Service questioned an Alabama teacher after school officials said he used an hypothetical example of shooting at the president to teach geometric angles...
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Feds investigating effigy of Obama

By theGrio

10:55 AM on 01/04/2010

VIDEO - The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging by a noose from a building in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter...
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Woman held in Hawaii after Michelle Obama threat

By theGrio

8:25 AM on 12/23/2009

HONOLULU (AP) - A woman accused of telling the Secret Service she would "blow away" Michelle Obama was in federal custody as the Obama family planned to travel to Hawaii...
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White House party crashers prove racial profiling goes both ways

By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

9:30 AM on 11/27/2009

OPINION - All that this couple needed to gain entrance into a state dinner at the White House was a tuxedo, traditional Indian evening wear, attitude, and white skin.
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Facebook poll asked if Obama should be killed

By theGrio

4:28 PM on 09/28/2009

Facebook users come across lots of surveys created by other users. But this one caught the attention of the U.S. Secret Service. It asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated...
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Father of man arrested over Obama threat calls his son 'sick'

By theGrio

3:38 PM on 06/06/2009

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Authorities have arrested a man who allegedly told bank tellers while cleaning out his savings account in Utah that he was on a mission to kill President Barack Obama, a federal prosecutor Saturday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Bearnson said Daniel James Murray was arrested in...
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PA newspaper apologizes for ad that calls for the president's assassination

By theGrio

12:14 PM on 06/01/2009

WARREN, Pa. (AP) -- Wanted: an assassination? It's hardly a suitable subject for a classified ad. And now, a northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for an ad that calls for the assassination of President Barack Obama. The publisher for the Warren Times Observer says the ad appeared last Thursday. It...
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