Tag: Secret Service

Feds Studying How to Use Twitter For ‘Depression Surveillance’

$82,800 study will examine social media to study depression

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The federal government is studying how to use Twitter for surveillance on depressed people.

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) began a study financed by the National Institutes of Health last month that will provide “population level depression monitoring” through the social media site.

White House Visitor Logs Not public, Judge Rules

Watchdog: Decision leaves public in the dark

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White House visitor logs are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal judge ruled Friday, blocking the public from reviewing the records.

Fair Share

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Secret Service officials are refusing to pay the security costs for a recent visit by President Obama to Newport Beach, Calif., despite the Romney campaign paying its fair share of the costs at a separate fundraiser in the area.

Pley Money

Fired Secret Service agent remains eligible for up to $2.1 million in taxpayer-funded pension payout

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Dania, the prostitute at the center of the Secret Service scandal

The disgraced Secret Service supervisors accused of engaging in a cocaine-fueled hooker party on the taxpayer dime will still cash in on lucrative taxpayer-funded pensions.

Feds Feeling Heat For Misbehavior

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The Secret Service has terminated three agents in the wake of the Colombian prostitution scandal that has rocked the Obama administration—the second scandal to strike the federal government in as many weeks.