The Secret Service Agency

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, activities, and purpose of the agency reflect it. The two main points of focus of the Secret Service -- protection and investigation -- each have individual mission statements and are divided into sub-areas as well. Each mission will be discussed in detail below.

After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, Congress directed the Secret Service to protect the President and that role of protection remains the primary mission of the Secret Service today

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s, 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 provide leadership and guidance to the emerging field of threat assessment. Specifically, NTAC will offer timely, realistic, useful, and effective advice to law enforcement and other professionals and organizations that have responsibilities to investigate and/or prevent targe
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