All posts tagged "Secret Service"

Multiple reports of a security situation at the White House are emerging as videos show authorities swarming around a suspect in cuffs.

On Saturday, the U.S. Sun described the incident as a "security breach" caused by "a man demanding to talk to the president." The Sun's reporting also featured photos of an unidentified man in handcuffs being led away by police.

France24 reporter Fraser Jackson posted a video on X showing the minutes following "an incident outside the White House" after Secret Service and Park Police raced to the corner of 16th and H streets near Lafayette Park....

Three Secret Service officials were walked out of their offices and placed on leave amid an investigation into leaked classified information.

According to a Tuesday post on X by journalist Susan Crabtree, two anonymous sources said that the three officials were escorted out of their office and made "do not admits" as part of a criminal investigation into leaks to the media.

"It's unclear if the leaks to the media pertained to the controversy over President Trump's secret evacuation from Turkey because of intelligence about a surface-to-air missile threat to Air Force One from Iran," Crabtree wrote....

The Secret Service agents protecting Vice President JD Vance are feeling "fed up" with his hasty personal travel requests, according to a new report from MS NOW.

Secret Service agents "groused" when they had to carry out Vance's recent requests for his family, such as joining a military helicopter crew to fly his son to his golf lesson, the report reads.

"That is RIDICULOUS," a person familiar with the golf trip told MS NOW in a message. "Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that."...

The 21-year-old who pulled a revolver out of a bag and opened fire at Secret Service agents outside the White House died after being shot, according to CNN.

CNN gave an update based on a statement from the Secret Service. Two people had been shot and wounded during an "encounter" with Secret Service, CNN reported earlier, but law enforcement later confirmed that one of the people shot was a bystander, who was hit by crossfire.

The shooter died while in the hospital, according to CNN reporters, adding that the bystander is in "critical condition."...

Tensions flared during Trump's visit to Beijing on Thursday as Chinese officials tried to disarm one of his Secret Service agents outside an historic site, according to reports.

The New York Post described the scene outside the Temple of Heaven, where "Chinese officials refused to admit a Secret Service agent accompanying the presidential press pool into the secure area because the agent was carrying a firearm."

With a press pool around them, the agent refused to disarm, and the American delegation didn't want to leave one of their own behind, which led to "the Chinese version of a Mexican standoff," the Post wrote. "After a thirty-minute delay and many arguments, another Secret Service agent who had already been cleared to proceed was summoned to escort reporters inside while the first agent stayed behind."...

A South Carolina veteran faces federal charges after the U.S. Secret Service arrested him last week as he was allegedly headed to D.C. to assassinate the president.

Army veteran Daniel Swain, a South Carolina resident, was arrested in North Carolina while driving a BMW with the message "HEADED TO WSH TO KILL THE PRES" scrawled in white marker across his driver's seat window, according to a press release by the Department of Justice released on Monday. According to a North Carolina criminal complaint, the police were notified on April 29 after employees at a car wash reported the suspicious vehicle.

The car wash was evacuated, and the U.S. Secret Service showed up with K-9 and explosive ordnance disposal teams. When searching Swain's car, they found two containers of a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine, and a drone, "which can be used in planning for preparation to carry out any attempts of violence," per the complaint. ...