Posts Tagged ‘protective intelligence’
Nikki Haley requests Secret Service protection after growing threats on campaign, report says
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has requested Secret Service protection after receiving a growing number of threats during her 2024 presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday. Haley told The Wall Street Journal while campaigning in South Carolina that she had made the request. “We’ve had multiple issues,” she said. “It’s not going to…
Read MoreSouth Korean Lawmaker Is Injured In An Attack Weeks After The Opposition Leader Was Stabbed
A South Korean governing party lawmaker was treated for lacerations at a Seoul hospital after being attacked Thursday by an unidentified man who struck her head with a rock-like object, South Korean police and fire officials said. A police official in Seoul’s Apgujeong district said a suspect was arrested at the scene of the attack…
Read MoreFlorida man arrested and accused of threatening to kill Member of Congress and his kids
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday in connection with threats to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and his children. Swalwell was not named in the court documents, but he confirmed that the threats targeted him and his family. “There is no place in America for threats of political violence,” Swalwell said in a statement Wednesday…
Read MoreSouth Korean Opposition Leader Is Stabbed In The Neck By A Knife-Wielding Man
South Korea’s tough-speaking liberal opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck by an unidentified knife-wielding man who attempted to kill him during his visit to the southeastern city of Busan, police said. Lee, 59, the head of the main opposition Democratic Party, was airlifted to a Seoul hospital for surgery after receiving emergency…
Read MoreColorado Supreme Court justices face a flood of threats after disqualifying Trump from the ballot
In the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot, social media outlets have been flooded with threats against the justices who ruled in the case, according to a report obtained by NBC News. Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts public interest research,…
Read MoreFernandina Beach Man Pleads Guilty To Threatening To Kill A United States Supreme Court Justice
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Neal Brij Sidhwaney (43, Fernandina Beach) has pleaded guilty to transmitting an interstate threat to kill. Sidhwaney faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to court documents, on July 31, 2023, Sidhwaney placed a phone…
Read MoreSedan crashes into SUV traveling with president’s motorcade, authorities investigating if ‘impairment’ a factor
An SUV that was part of President Joe Biden’s motorcade was struck by another vehicle as Biden was walking out of a dinner on Sunday night, according to reporters traveling with the president. Biden had just finished answering a reporter’s question when the crash occurred, appearing to startle the president. Secret Service agents then walked…
Read MoreSecurity breach at India’s parliament on 22nd anniversary of deadly attack
Two unidentified men stormed the lower house of India’s parliament on Wednesday, in a major security breach that fell on the anniversary of a deadly attack on the complex more than two decades ago. Video broadcast live on Sansad TV, the official channel for the country’s parliament, showed a man jumping over tables and running…
Read MoreMan who attacked Pelosi’s husband convicted of federal assault and attempted kidnapping charges
A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer of federal charges of attempted kidnapping and assault. The jury deliberated for about eight hours before finding David DePape guilty of attempted kidnapping of…
Read MoreConservative Spanish politician shot in the face in Madrid, gunman flees on motorbike
Veteran Spanish right-wing politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras was shot in the face in broad daylight on a central Madrid street on Thursday. His life was not in danger, according to the hospital where he was rushed for treatment. Police said Vidal-Quadras was attacked at around 1:30 p.m. local time near his home and that he was…
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