The U.S. Secret Service

The United States Secret Service Agency is a federal law enforcement agency, originally established under the U.S. Department of the Treasury for the sole purpose of addressing the problem of counterfeiting in late-19th century. By 1875, ten years after its inception, very little bogus money remained in circulation (wikipedia.org).

As the only federal law enforcement agency dedicated solely to Treasury operations at the time, the Secret Service took on many non-treasury related cases including the Teapot Dome scandal, the Ku Klux Klan, and foreign spying (wikipedia.org).

In 1901 when William McKinley became the third President killed in office, Congress began to unofficially assign the task of protecting the new President, Theodore Roosevelt, to the Secret Service. It was not until 1906 that Congress passed legislation making presidential protection an official duty of the Secret Service (Longley).

Today, the mission of the Secret Service remains two-fold -- protection and investigation -- and the structure

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y out their protective responsibilities through special support units (Countersniper, Canine Explosive Detection Team, Emergency Response Team, Crime Scene Search Technicians, Special Operations Section, and Magnetometers) and a carefully planned network of fixed security posts, foot, bicycle, vehicular and motorcycle patrols (United States). A third division relating to protection provided by the Secret Service is that of National Special Security Events. In May of 1998, President Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 62. A portion of the classified PDD-62 deals with the coordination of federal anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism assets for events of national interest. PDD-62 formally outlined the roles and responsibilities of federal agencies in the development of security plans for major events. The clarifying of responsibilities seeks to establish the role of each agency and avoid the duplication of efforts and resources. When an event is designated a National Special Security Event, the Secret Service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for the design and implementation of the operational security plan (United States). Finally, the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) was created to
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