Government_Ch5_Secret-Service

=**Secret Service**= This is the group of highly trained security experts whose mission is to protect the president, vice president, past presidents and vice presidents and the families of the president and vice president. During presidential campaigns, the Secret Service is also sent to protect high level candidates for the presidency. According to the Secret Service website: The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and more than 150 offices throughout the United States and abroad. The Secret Service was established in 1865, solely to suppress the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. Today, the agency is mandated by Congress to carry out dual missions: protection of national and visiting foreign leaders, and criminal investigations.

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