Read more Secret Service stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1731/secret-service.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:07:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72371/i-snorted-coke-40-feet-from-obama-at-dc-dinner-actor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWe’ve all done silly stuff on a dare, but probably not on the level of actor/author/comic/crazy guy David Cross, who says he snorted cocaine not 40 feet from President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (not, for the record, held at the White House). With cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court...http://www.newser.com/story/72371/i-snorted-coke-40-feet-from-obama-at-dc-dinner-actor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 21:05:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70752/creator-of-kill-obama-poll-is-a-kid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Secret Service has found the mastermind behind the “Should Obama Be Killed?” Facebook poll—and it turns out to be a kid. After a chat with the young perp and the parents, the agency has decided not to press charges, a spokesman said. “This is something we classified as...http://www.newser.com/story/70752/creator-of-kill-obama-poll-is-a-kid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 01 Oct 2009 10:59:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70570/secret-service-closes-in-on-obama-death-poll-creator.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe developer whose software was used to create the “Should Obama be Killed?” Facebook poll has talked to the Secret Service. “The conversation with the SS was fine,” Jesse Farmer wrote on Twitter, but “If the goal was to resolve the issue + inform the SS, the way it went...http://www.newser.com/story/70570/secret-service-closes-in-on-obama-death-poll-creator.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70477/secret-service-probes-facebook-poll-on-murdering-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Secret Service is looking into a Facebook poll that asked users to weigh in on whether the president should be killed. “We are taking the appropriate investigative steps,” said a rep for the agency. The poll, which has already been taken down, offered four possible answers to the question...http://www.newser.com/story/70477/secret-service-probes-facebook-poll-on-murdering-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 15:52:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69212/house-next-to-obamas-chicago-digs-hits-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGot a couple million and think you can pass a Secret Service background check? The house next door to President Obama’s Chicago digs is on sale, the Tribune reports. Round-the-clock protection puts the 17-room brick home in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood in “the world’s ultimate gated community,” says the...http://www.newser.com/story/69212/house-next-to-obamas-chicago-digs-hits-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 19:13:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67327/dc-delegate-ban-guns-near-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWashington DC's congressional delegate is watching gun-toting protesters outside venues where Barack Obama speaks, and she's not gonna take it anymore, reports The Hill. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton—whose constituency last year had its handgun ban tossed by the Supreme Court—wants guns banned in the president's vicinity, and is...http://www.newser.com/story/67327/dc-delegate-ban-guns-near-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Aug 2009 6:20:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67073/fbi-cia-recruits-duke-it-out-with-actors-on-dcs-streets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCriminal incidents around Washington may not always be what they seem: The FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and other authorities stage crimes all over town, aiming to put trainees in the heat of the action, the Washington Post reports. Professional actors, students, retired cops, and others play bad-guy targets for new...http://www.newser.com/story/67073/fbi-cia-recruits-duke-it-out-with-actors-on-dcs-streets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 17 Aug 2009 14:26:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66025/secret-service-stretched-by-dozens-of-daily-prez-threats.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Secret Service is struggling to cope with a huge number of threats being made against President Obama, according to the author of a new book on the agency. Threats against the president have quadrupled since Obama took office to some 30 a day, few of which are publicized for...http://www.newser.com/story/66025/secret-service-stretched-by-dozens-of-daily-prez-threats.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 2:09:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65627/silly-security-overkill-is-hurting-public-officials.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSure, our public officials need protection—but things are getting out of hand, writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post . Since 9/11, “we have gotten so cranked up about security in the United States that senior officials travel in cocoons, as if they are under constant threat.” And of what,...http://www.newser.com/story/65627/silly-security-overkill-is-hurting-public-officials.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 7:37:35 CDT