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Who does the Secret Service protect?
the president
Protection. We ensure the safety of the president, the vice president, their families, the White House, the vice president’s residence, visiting foreign heads of state, former United States presidents and their spouses, and events of national significance.
What means Secret Service?
Definition of secret service 1 : a governmental service of a secret nature. 2 capitalized both Ss : a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chiefly in charge of stopping crimes against the nation’s financial system and protecting the president and other national officials and visiting world leaders.
What is the Secret Service do?
The U.S. Secret Service is a federal law-enforcement agency within the United States Department of Homeland Security tasked with the criminal investigation of counterfeiting and other financial crimes.
How long does the Secret Service protect former presidents and their families?
The Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012, reverses a previous law that limited Secret Service protection for former presidents and their families to 10 years if they served after 1997. Former President George W. Bush and future former presidents will receive Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives.
What do Secret Service agents do?
The most common responsibilities of a secret service agent may include investigating and preventing financial crimes, analyzing and averting computer-based threats and providing protection for high-profile government officials. Investigate crimes that include identity theft, counterfeit and financial fraud.
How do we define the United States?
/ yuˈnaɪ tɪd ˈsteɪts / PHONETIC RESPELLING. noun (used with a singular verb) a federal republic in the northern Western Hemisphere comprising 48 contiguous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the North Pacific.
What is the meaning of USS?
United States Ship
abbreviation for United States Ship: used before the names of ships in the US navy: He was a radio technician aboard the USS Missouri.
What does the Secret Service do other than protect the president?
The Secret Service is unique among federal law enforcement agencies because not only do its agents provide protection for the president and vice president of the United States and their families, former presidents, presidential candidates and visiting heads of state and heads of government to the United States, but …