A security breach at a White House state dinner in November has prompted questions about whether the Secret Service needs more staff, its strategies for protecting the President and other essential government staff, and what reforms may need to be implemented to eliminate such security breaches in the future.
The United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division.
Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States Department of Treasury. The Secret Service has over 6,500 employees: 3,200 Special Agents, 1,300 Uniformed Division Officers, and 2,000 technical and administrative employees. Special agents serve on protective details, special teams, or sometimes investigate certain financial and homeland security-related crimes.
The U.S. Secret Service has two distinct areas of responsibility:
Treasury roles that include missions such as prevention and investigation of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S. treasury bonds notes and investigation of major fraud.
Protective roles that ensure the safety of national VIPs such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, their families, and foreign embassies of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
BookCart Learning Activity
ProQuest has created hundreds of BookCart learning activities that librarians and teachers can copy and adapt for immediate use by their students. One of these BookCarts, "Secret Service," is especially appropriate now.
This Cart learning activity is a supplement to a collection of 20 BookCarts (Excel listing) that correlate to U.S. Government & Civics courses and textbooks that you may also want to copy.
Each of the 20 BookCarts in this collection is called a CourseCart because it provides an excellent supplementary activity to the individual chapter topics and issues in U.S Government & Civics courses. CourseCarts create an easy way for teachers to assign inquiry-based Learning activities (21st Century Skills) that supplement and keep textbooks current.
Teachers or librarians can copy "Secret Service" and any one of the U.S. Government & Civics CourseCarts in the collection by using the following procedure:
Click the BOOKCART ADMIN tab at the top of the Teacher Edition.
Click the PROQUEST CARTS tab.
Scroll down the folder list on the left and click "U.S. Govt/Civics CourseCarts."
Locate "Secret Service."
Click the COPY icon (middle one) in the ACTIONS column to the right of this title.
Click RETURN TO MY LOCAL CARTS.
Repeat to copy another CourseCart.
Librarians or teachers can edit this BookCart and others to customize it.
To edit each CourseCart for your students to use:
Click the first new BookCart Title with the prefix "COPY OF".
Delete "Copy of" and then type your name in the AUTHOR boxes and your email.
Type any ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS for your students in the DESCRIPTION box.
Edit the existing STUDENT DIRECTIONS in the Description box to customize for your students.
Scroll down and click SAVE.
Return to My Local Carts.
ProQuest Learning: Literature Activity
There are hundreds of notable speeches made by presidents. Students should select at least two famous speeches made by a president that they select and (a) summarize their content, and (b) indicate their impact on the country.
Students should write a report of at least 150 words that cites the two speeches.
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