The discovery of five pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, CNN and a liberal billionaire put the country on edge Wednesday and sent law enforcement officials scrambling to prevent any more packages from reaching their targets. The hunt for a serial mail bomber began late Tuesday night when Secret Service personnel conducting standard mail screenings […]
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Secret Service investigates Windham auto dealer in counterfeiting scheme
The Secret Service and Windham police are investigating a local business and its associates in connection with a counterfeiting scheme that may have produced tens of thousands of dollars in fake bills that were used to buy heroin and cocaine. A Cumberland County judge granted a search warrant in late April to a Windham detective […]
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Report details Secret Service fails as fence jumper breached White House
WASHINGTON — Layer after layer of security measures that were supposed to block an intruder from getting into the White House all failed in stunning succession on the evening of Sept. 19, according to an internal review of a fence jumper’s breach. There were nearly a dozen failures in the Secret Service’s rings of security […]
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Secret Service chief resigns
WASHINGTON — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson has resigned amid security lapses at the White House. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Wednesday that Pierson offered her resignation, and he accepted it. The move came one day after her appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in a congressional hearing focused on recent […]
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A. Elze: No respect for their jobs
On March 27, the Sun Journal had an article regarding allegations against the Secret Service and recent misdeeds in the Netherlands. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was quoted as saying that the incident “shows that the agency has to deal with some people in its ranks who fail to respect the important job the agency is […]