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2014-01-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-

2 arrested at Tex-Mex border in Target credit card fraud case

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Posted by Pappy 2014-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Why is the Secret Service now a police agency? Their purpose is to protect the President and Vice_President but they are not a police agency. We know the FBI is run by a Marxist but there is still some excellent agents in the bureau.

There are to be no Secret Police in this country.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-21 12:43|| 2014-01-21 12:43|| Front Page Top

#2 History 101 - With a reported one third of the currency in circulation being counterfeit at the time,[14] the Secret Service was created by President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, the day of his assassination, five days after Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. It was commissioned on July 5, 1865, in Washington, D.C. as the "Secret Service Division" of the Department of the Treasury with the mission of suppressing counterfeiting. - wiki

Whether coin, paper, or as today digital, counterfeiting is within their realm since its inception. The presidential protection mission came later (unfortunately for Lincoln).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-21 13:29|| 2014-01-21 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 The Secret Service has has Procopius noted long been a police agency. This Agency saved America from the Henning Nickel. The Henning nickel is a true story of what can happen when an expert machinist doesn't have basic bookkeeping skills. A perfect crime. A close cost analyst of the Henning Nickel recons it's cost of production at 11 cents. Not good. Not good at all.

Posted by Shipman 2014-01-21 14:23|| 2014-01-21 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Why is the Secret Service now a police agency?

You don't do US History, do you?

As P2K and Shipman mentioned, the Secret Service was started in 1865; its initial and still primary mission was investigating threats to the payment and financial systems of the United States.

The protection mission wasn't started until 1901, after the assassination of President McKinley. That mission was assigned at the direction of Congress.

Posted by Pappy 2014-01-21 15:07|| 2014-01-21 15:07|| Front Page Top

#5 The Secret Service has been responsible for presidential guard after the FBI, ATF, ICE, etc, took over other police responsibilities. Now everyone, even the Social Security girl are being militarized by Zero, soon the TSA pat down pervert, will be sporting hollow point bandaleros.

Posted by Lionel Snirt6165 2014-01-21 17:28|| 2014-01-21 17:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's give these people amnesty! They're just stealing the credit cards American's won't steal!

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-01-21 20:54|| 2014-01-21 20:54|| Front Page Top

#7 WTF?

The FBI was established in 1908.

The ATF was formed in 1926 and became a separate agency in 1927.

The ICE was formed from combining various other agencies in 2011

Friggin' Ron Paul on a pogo-stick. Crack open a book or look it up on the intertubes before you post. That took one minute of research. Two, tops.

Are you morons or just playing them? Don't answer that - I couldn't stand any more inanity.

Posted by Pappy 2014-01-21 20:57|| 2014-01-21 20:57|| Front Page Top

#8 This Agency saved America from the Henning Nickel.

Fascinating story, Ship! Maybe Henning figured he could make it up on volume.

Being part of the Treasury Dept, I suppose the S.S. has also saved us from the scourge of hobo nickels

Posted by SteveS 2014-01-21 21:55|| 2014-01-21 21:55|| Front Page Top

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