![]() ![]() It now protects not only the president and vice president but selected other officials and visiting dignitaries. ![]() The agency was transferred to the new Department of Homeland Security in 2003. They still are entitled to Secret Service protection.Ĭreated in 1865 to track down counterfeiters, the Secret Service was assigned the job of protecting the president in 1913 but remained in the Treasury Department. Trailblazer: President George Bush, winking before he addresses the United Nations today, will be able to keep his codename as he is entitled to Secret Service protection for lifeĪs for Mr and Mrs Bush whatever else their new lives hold for them, they can take their alternate identities as Trailblazer and Tempo with them.
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