What assassination attempt precipitated this move by the Secret Service
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My guess would be Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt...\n\nBut I think that today nobody would want to miss the hilarity that is our ridiculous leader
15692
I am a history teacher and could give you a laundary list of reasons and history behind the whole event, but I will leave you with this . . . they are the government.  If the U.S. government feels there is a threat to the interests of the nation, it is going to act upon that by whatever means necessary.
671989
no. but maybe if they're separated. \n\nhere's another question to that: what would the secret service code name be for a conjoined twin president???
24742
Actually, Nixon didn't "send his henchmen" in, someone lower in the chain of command of the Committee to Reelect the President (Nixon) in 1972 did.  \n\nThe Democratic National Committee headquarters were in the Watergate Hotel where the breakin occurred in an attempt to spy on the DNC.  Nixon found out about it well after the fact and, not having "sent" anyone to do it, wasn't pleased that it happened.\n\nNixon's problems stemmed from the attempt to cover up the fact that his people did it after he found out about it, not that he had anything to do with the actual break in.\n\n"Watergate" was an umbrella name for a series of events in addition to the break in that were discovered in the investigation. . the "Dirty Tricks Squad" the Committee to Reelect had, the slush fund the committee maintained from off the books cash contributions, and other things.
298945
The attempt wouldn't have been made at that time but he would have still been a target.
467971
How about the nice place they have in NY? The secret service is required to provide Bill protection until he dies. Did you know that they erected a building on the premises to house the S.S. and actually charge them rent every month.... the S.S. rent comes to more than their house payment!!! They never miss a trick....
56312
Try a consiracy. Like the Jkf shooting. Or maybe Watergate. Watergate was very interesting. Basically The leading cadidate for president was so paranoid of the other cadidate he hired spys to well, spy. (to put frankly) Anyway the whole thing blew up after he was president. I'm not sure. History is so interesting.
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There's this little news story now,  it takes a large chunk of time on national news and print and tv,  remember its the thing about Bush authorizing the NSA to listen to cell phone calls.\n\nSo able danger ended with some admiral or general saying we were told not to pursue what we had cause some white house clinton lawyer told us not to go any farther,\nand now george bush's lawyer, the attorney general, is saying its legal for us to spy and take action\n\nkick @ss
264479
I repeat, it is a federal crime under 18 USC Sec. 871 to threaten the life of the President of the United States. This "question" attempts to evoke such threats.
112525
The rules are that we will not use assassination as a tool to remove someone from power that we do not like or agree with.  However in the case of Saddam's son's we were at war with their country and they were killed fighting us and that is a long way from assassination.  While it may seem to be easier to change things by sending a lone assassin in to do the job, to have that as part of our policy would open up the leaders of our country to assassination from those that did not agree with us.  However a commander in chief of a country at war is in fact a justified military target.  I have seen a couple of the messes we caused by having this assassination policy done by CIA operatives and we would have been better off politically to have dealt with the leader we took out than the leader we put in. It is a bad policy and should remain illegal.  The policy to stop these assassinations came about by Executive Order by Gerald Ford when he was President and can be rescinded by executive order by any President that may feel that it is a policy we want to use, so this is a policy that is in the hands on one man and not under a system of checks and balances.
52886
That is interesting,  I think the secret service needs to do whatever it takes to protect the people they protect,  even if it "infringes on peaceful assembly", as we saw in crawford.\n\nThe separate point about media coverage,  its like gov't doesn't always tell us the truth and the media is covering whatever dimension of that "truth" they want to get out, and we American's don't have all the "FACTS"
147942
Assassination attempts: i think 3.\n\nNoone knows about his childhood.
56097
I can believe that Oswald might have taken a few shots at the motorcade, but I don't believe he was the only person in Dallas assigned to kill Kennedy.  It's a fact that he deliberately took a menial job at one of the prime locations for a sniper's nest in Dealey Plaza.  Oswald did have marksmanship training in the Marines and held a serious grudge against Kennedy for his Cuban and Russian policies.\n\nHaving said all that, I believe Oswald was duped into believing he was the sole person responsible for carrying out the assassination.  Whoever orchestrated the hit probably assigned another team to make sure the job was done right and Oswald didn't nerve out at the last minute.  One of these men was hiding near the grassy knoll, probably in a Ghillie suit to look like the ground.  He wouldn't necessarily have to run away during the ensuing chaos- he probably sat perfectly still until he could slip out unnoticed.\n\nThere were men at the scene claiming to be officials from the FBI and CIA who were never seen again or interrogated.  They were observed picking up shell casings and bullet fragments.  \n\nI've also had problems believing the fatal headshot footage. Zapruder jerked his arm four times during the shooting, which was an involuntary reaction to the sound of gunfire. Kennedy's reaction to the fatal shot could just as easily be explained as a front entry wound.  Photos exist showing smoke rising from the grassy knoll area, plus several eyewitnesses said they heard at least one shot from that direction.  \n\nIn my opinion, two separate entities formed two separate plans to assassinate Kennedy that day, but only one team was in place in time to do it.  The Mafia had the will and the personnel, but the precision of the shots and the ensuing cover up points to a military operation.
112058
The FBI was holding interviews for new agents, the 1st candidate was a man, they told him 'This is your final test, your wife is in that room, here is a gun, you must kill her in 5 minutes in order to become an agent.'  A few minutes later the man came out crying 'I can't kill my wife for a job, I love her too much'.  \n2nd candidate was a man, he was given the same instructions, to enter the room and kill his wife with the supplied gun.  He also refused to do it.\nThe 3rd candidate was a woman, who was told 'This is your final test, your husband is in that room, here is a gun, you have 5 minutes to kill him in order to become an agent.'  As the interviewers waited outside the room, they heard a few shots, followed by a lot of noise.  At the end of the 5 minutes, the woman came out and said 'that bullet was loaded with blanks!  I had to beat him to death with the chair!'  \n\nBoom boom!
212213
because we're not trying hard enough.  We haven't put CIA and FBI agents in the right spots and our military has no idea what's going on.  Then we had to go and attack Iraq and get a new set of problems to focus on.  Pretty damn messed up that one guy can orchestrate the murder of 3000 Americans and 5 years later we still have no idea where he is.
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I had a vison, it was George Bush being draged out of the white house in hand cuffs and leg irons wearing an orange jumpsuit on his way to the Hague to be tried for his crimes against humanity. Dick Cheny and Rummy were close behind as well as the rest of the administration. To bad it was only a dream. Wait a minute dreams do come true sometimes.
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Secret Service guards do not change with the Prez. He changes in his own room. They change in the locker room.