Report: Unprecedented Number Of Death Threats Against Obama -- And Secret Service Overwhelmed

[SoCalDem]

Just a reminder that the "target" is not only congresspeople

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Report: Unprecedented Number Of Death Threats Against Obama -- And Secret Service Overwhelmed
Jillian Rayfield | October 19, 2009, 6:00PM
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/new-report-find-secret-service-overwhelmed-by-increased-threats.php

The Boston Globe reports that a new internal Congressional Research Service report and government sources say there are an unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama -- and that the Secret Service is insufficiently funded and staffed to deal with them.

According to The Globe, a report issued by the Congressional Research Service shows that the Secret Service is investigating more threats against government officials than ever before, and questions whether the 144-year old agency should continue probing financial crimes, as was its original mandate. In total, the Secret Service regularly protects 32 people and arranges security for high-profile events. But the election of Barack Obama has increased threats against the president's life by 400 percent from his predecessor, according to "In the President's Secret Service," Ronald Kessler's account of presidential security. The Secret Service has looked into a number of race-based threats since Obama took office, and a Facebook poll that asked "Should Obama be killed?" President Obama also had a Secret Service detail 18 months before the election, the earliest of any Presidential candidate.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center issued a report back in August that found that the number of white supremacist militia groups has spiked by 35% since 2000. The Secret Service has, in turn, increased its employees from 6,700 two years ago to a projected 7,055 in the coming fiscal year, almost entirely devoted to protecting national leaders. But that's a staff increase of just 5.3 percent -- nowhere near the 400 percent increase in threats to the president's life.


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and this from AUG 2009

SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-06-09 07:06 AM
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Just in case people forgot- "Secret Service blamed Palin for sudden spike in Obama death threats"



She was just a "Johnny-etta Appleseed", planting saplings back then, but the trees are bearing fruit now. The orchard-owners have sent their tenders out into the field now to spread the message.

Obama's "other-ness" is now a part of almost every newscast, and in every edition of just about every paper & magazine. It may be the birthers, the "he's a socialist", rank & file republicans, or just the millions of "low-information" voters (aka Idiots), but once the monster's out, it's awfully hard to get him back into the cage..



http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/secret-service-blamed-palin-sudden-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDMt7nBPFeY&eurl=http%3A...


Secret Service blamed Palin for sudden spike in Obama death threats
By David Neiwert Sunday Nov 09, 2008 12:00pm

All of the talk about the special Newsweek report describing the backstage events in this year's presidential campaign has focused on various revelations about Sarah Palin's astonishing lack of knowledge about global and national affairs, as well as her spending sprees.

But this passage seemed at least as significant, if not more so:

The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

Tim Shipman at the Telegraph (UK) has more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3405336/Sarah-Palin-blamed-by-the-US-Secret-Service-for-death-threats-against-Barack-Obama.html
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