This is view that I had of Obama touching down. Few people ever get this close to Marine One.
I understand that the neighbors who live around campus were mad that the 8 choppers were making so much noise coming and going. The next day we got a message saying that the university will not be hosting a presidential landing again.
What did we get for the visit? Our security director got a commemorative plaque thanking him for permitting the White House to use our property. Nice.
of such, power walls are built.
Correction. There were seven choppers, two Navy and three Army I think, then Marine One and Two. Kind of strange to see that many aircraft on one and a half football fields, but they fit.
“New Details on NSA‘s ’Spy Center‘ and Secrets From Domestic Eavesdropping Operation ’Stellar Wind’— The Blaze/ March 16, 2012”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860168/posts
That the USSS monitors FR is not news, but bears repeating. The troll angle is new, though.
I’d be glad if they were doing their job to protect the President. But...not too sure we have a genuine one.
They use commercial software to scan all the websites. Its pretty impressive stuff. I’ve used it. Its not a secret. Maybe I should do a write-up about it in a more scholarly post. They spend millions per year on licenses and a slew of servers and control consoles to spy on Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else they desire. Due to the nature of HTML, AJAX, Flash, and other technologies that make up most of the websites out there, there is not much of a way around it unless access to the website is highly secure in the first place, such as making FR require a secure connection and strong password before even allowing viewing of any messages. But that would bring down pressure from the man for sure. Basically, if you are on FR, you can consider yourself on file somewhere, but likely not a person of interest or even known to any agent; just an archived name in a file somewhere to be checked on some time in the future should the need arise.
HEY! SECRET SERVICE! I’m over here! Read and learn from my threads and comments. Enjoy!
BTW, back in the day, didn’t an outfit in Germany also have SS for an abbreviated name? Forget what they were called. Probably just a coincidence - - - .
BTW, BTW, we pay your salaries, so do a good job and read all of our comments. You won’t find a better bunch of Patriots!
BTW, BTW, BTW, We will send y’all a REAL President next January, so keep the Faith!
http://freerepublic.com/tag/by:nugrad/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
Maybe I'll see you there. I regard my posts as innocuous, but I'm HERE, you know? Your description of the presidential visitation brings my most paranoid fantasies that much closer to reality.
The university is getting no payment for the huge inconvenience of jamming our wireless
What exactly did "jamming our wireless" consist of?
Good thing Panetta wasn’t there or the snipers and Marines would have to disarm.
BTW, VP Biden is coming to our St. Patrick’s Day parade here in Pittsburgh. It has been summerlike here so we had the windows open and the C-5 “Screecher” (Mom calls it that) came in with all the stuff they take on these junkets. The noise alone scared my poor cats. B-(
I expect they did much the same thing on DU when President Bush visited someplace similar.
I am sure we don’t know the half of it.
I’ve had the Secret Service visit me at work for something I posted on FreeRepublic. I had overheard someone at work say something that I thought sounded like a threat against President Bush, so I posted here on FR asking for advice. Once I was convinced that I needed to report it, I had the mods remove my post, and I immediately called the USSS office in Orlando. I felt that it was time sensitive, since President Bush was coming to Daytona Beach for the Daytona 500 and this guy at work had said he “bought a gun for the occasion.”. The Secret Service office in Orlando took the info and said someone would get back to me. Someone finally came to my office at work, asking about me, and I talked with him on the phone. It turned out that he was NOT following up on my call to the Orlando office, but was instead following up on my post here on FR. They had subpoenaed the records from JimRob and tracked me down, apparently through my Social Security records or something.
We likely have a counterfeit President using likely fraudulent documents and he appears to be raiding the Treasury...The SS is next to him every day.. Why does a county sheriff have to do their job for them? Did they not swear an oath?
........................ What types of crimes does the Secret Service investigate?
The Secret Service has primary jurisdiction to investigate threats against Secret Service protectees as well as financial crimes, which include counterfeiting of U.S. currency or other U.S. Government obligations; forgery or theft of U.S. Treasury checks, bonds or other securities; credit card fraud; telecommunications fraud; computer fraud, identify fraud and certain other crimes affecting federally insured financial institutions.
What legal authority and powers do Secret Service agents have?
Under Title 18, Section 3056, of the United States Code, agents and officers of the United States Secret Service can:
Carry firearms
Execute warrants issued under the laws of the United States
Make arrests without warrants for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony recognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed such felony
Offer and pay rewards for services and information leading to the apprehension of persons involved in the violation of the law that the Secret Service is authorized to enforce
Investigate fraud in connection with identification documents, fraudulent commerce, fictitious instruments and foreign securities
and Perform other functions and duties authorized by law
The Secret Service works closely with the United States Attorney's Office in both protective and investigative matters.
http://www.secretservice.gov/faq.shtml
more:
The following are primary offenses investigated by the Secret Service:
Identity Crimes - Identity crimes are defined as the misuse of personal or financial identifiers in order to gain something of value and/or facilitate other criminal activity. The Secret Service is the primary federal agency tasked with investigating identity theft/fraud and its related activities under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028. Identity crimes are some of the fastest growing and most serious economic crimes in the United States for both financial institutions and persons whose identifying information has been illegally used. The Secret Service records criminal complaints, assists victims in contacting other relevant investigative and consumer protection agencies and works with other federal, state and local law enforcement and reporting agencies to identify perpetrators.
Identity crimes investigated by the Secret Service include, but are not limited to, the following:
Credit Card/Access Device Fraud (Skimming)
Check Fraud
Bank Fraud
False Identification Fraud
Passport/Visa Fraud
Identity Theft
http://www.secretservice.gov/criminal.shtml
The Secret service is comprised of a whole lot of top-notch people, including former military. These guys (and gals) are typically very patriotic. How ironic is it that they find themselves having to protect a sick, corrupt, communist, America-hating piece of dog sh** like Ubama? Whew... It must be like being a hockey goalie - - your natural instinct tells you to get out of the way of a hard rubber disk coming at you at 100MPH, but your job is to deliberately get in its way.
Always check the born on date. PDFed. The SS represents the occupation now. Keep that in mind.
IATZ from the SS
You need massive amounts of security when you have a total asshat usurper for a president.