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The Secret Service and the US Dollar Crisis After 9-11
It started not really to protect the president Can you remind us of how the agency started and why? Yes, it began Ironically the day that Abraham Lincoln was killed he was along with his secretary of the Treasury very agitated about the volume of counterfeit notes in circulation. It is protecting the US currency and Making sure that it is not fake Continues to be one of the Secret Service's missions even though they are not any longer a part of the Department of Treasury After 9-11 they were placed under the the huge new behemoth agency the Department of Homeland Security.