SecretService
Washington (AFP) - The US House committee investigating the January 6 assault on the Capitol said late Friday night it had subpoenaed the Secret Service over questions surrounding missing text messages from the days surrounding the riot last year. The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Joseph Cuffari, told Congress earlier this week that his office has had difficulties obtaining records of text messages from the Secret Service, the law enforcement agency that protects the president, from January 5 and 6, 2021. Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Januar...
AFP
Two men were arrested and charged in Washington D.C. for impersonating Department of Homeland Security Agents and were reportedly able to get close to Secret Service agents assigned to the White House by offering them a variety of gifts. Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 35, have allegedly been impersonating federal agents for over two years since February 2020. During that time, they established relationships with some Secret Service agents by buying them apartments rent-free, phones and surveillance systems. They also offered to purchase a pricey assault rifle for an agent who was assign...
uInterview.com
A new report by the nonprofit Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) revealed that former President Donald Trump’s decision to expand Secret Service protection for his four adult children cost at least $140,000 in just the first month since he left office. “That figure, however, does not include charges at Trump properties in Bedminster, Palm Beach and Briarcliff, New York, which would likely bring the actual total much higher,” the report reads. Before leaving the White House after losing re-election, Trump ordered a temporary extension of protection for his oldest childr...
uInterview.com
A Texas man was arrested by Washington, D.C., police and is facing weapons and ammunition charges after he stood outside the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday. She resides at the U.S. Naval Observatory in the nation’s capital. According to a spokesperson for Washington’s Metropolitan Police, officers responded “at approximately 12:12 pm, to the 3400 block of Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. in reference to a suspicious person based on an intelligence bulletin that originated from Texas, who was detained by U.S. Secret Service.” The man was then contacted after a region-...
uPolitics.com
In the last fiscal year, the Trump family took more trips that required Secret Service protection than the Obama family took in seven years, according to a budget document released by the Treasury Department. Obama’s family took 133.3 protected trips per year, while Trump’s family has taken an average of 1,625 trips annually. Much of the Trump family’s known travel was to promote Trump Organization businesses, which former President Donald Trump still owns and profits from. Trump appointed his two adult sons to manage the international businesses that continue to make hundreds of millions of d...
uPolitics.com
Days before he left office, former President Donald Trump instructed that Secret Service protection be extended to his four adult children and two of their spouses. Protocol dictates that only Trump, his wife Melania and their 14 year-old son Baron would regularly receive 24-hour Secret Service protection. Because of his children’s heavy involvement in their father’s campaign, the former president asked that his extended family have full protection for six additional months, on top of an initial six months. Former presidents have requested extensions for their children when in college, since r...
uPolitics.com
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら