The United States Secret Service (USSS)

The United States Secret Service, also known as the USSS, is a name with which most all American - and many foreign - households are familiar.. The organization is typically seen as a conglomeration of glorified body guards charged with protecting the President of the United States and his - or her - family, but in reality, it is a task force comprised of extremely qualified individuals who come together to form one of the oldest and most elite federal law enforcement agencies in the world.
Today, the most well-known occupation of a member of the Secret Service is to act as physical protection, and those individuals for whom that physical protection is provided are sometimes referred to as “protectees.”. Agents of the USSS are not only authorized
In response to all threats and vulnerabilities, both foreseen and unforeseen, the members of the Secret Service must execute countermeasures that are efficient, usually extremely secretive, and as convenient as possible. One of the most obvious positions as a Secret Service agent is that of an armed bodyguard, but in reality, the measures taken to safeguard those individuals to whom those bodyguards are assigned are far more in-depth and involved then that. There is an entire division of the USSS - known as the Intelligence Division - who is responsible for pre-assessing all possible threats before they are ever encountered (“The
In 1915, President Wilson had the Secret Service directed to further fulfill the role of an investigative body by assigning them to examine and scrutinize possible cases of espionage in the US. The number of protectees that the USSS was considered responsible for expanded in 1917, when Congress signed an act that authorized protection for the immediate family of the President. That was also the year that it was made illegal to send threats to the President by mail, so the Secret Service had to expand to cover that, as well