DU Military...After 5 years, someone has to

[serryjw]

answer two question.
I was under the impression that the life/security of the pResident was in the hands of the secret service and the pResident had nothing to say about it. HOW did the SS allow Bushit go into Emma Booker after everyone KNEW the country was under attack?
I though SS was FBI? WHY is under the DHS in the organizational chart?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. SS is Treasury, if I'm not mistaken.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. You're right, the SS is Department of Treasury.........

Their main tasks are to protect members of the Executive branch of government AND protect the integrity of the US dollar by rounding up counterfeiters!

[Kutjara]

2. Historically, the Secret Service has been under...

...the Treasury Department, and has (for historical reasons) the dual role of defending the currency and the President. It's reporting lines are still into Treasury, even though it's been brought under DHS on an operational basis.

[driver8]

3. Secret Service

The Secret Service was originally part of The Department of the Treasury. In 2002:
The Department of Homeland Security is established with the passage of (Public Law 107-296) which in part, transfers the United States Secret Service from the Department of the Treasury, to the new department effective March 1, 2003.

Why the SS allowed Bush to remain at the school when it was clear that our country was under attack is a mystery -- I do not understand that at all. From what I have read, they are supposed to remove the president at the first hint of trouble.

[Monkeyman]

5. You are right Rove stopped them wonder why

[serryjw]

6. Wasn't Cheney taken to a bunker

Who's pResident?

[Monkeyman]

7. Yep so was Hastert hmmmm

[serryjw]

8. Hassert would have probably

become VP when Cheney became pResident??

[Sinti]

9. Multiple choice - three options

One, they knew he was in no danger. You can't say they didn't know we were under attack, they have the best communications equipment in the world.

Two, they read his mind and he commanded them to not even approach him regarding removing him to a secure place.

Three, they already knew we were under attack when he entered Booker Elementary, and he demanding that they let him go in. Of course, I believe protocol is to disregard the president's wishes and put his safety first, but protocol was taking the day off on 9/11

[larrysh]

10. Four.......Maybe Cheney thought something else might happen........

[Sinti]

12. Cheney doesn't have control over the Secret Service, AFAIK n/t

[spindrifter]

11. Letting the Chimp go into the school

seems to indicate that he is not a strategic thinker and the SS fhad their thumbs up their nether regions.