United States Secret Service Law and Legal Definition
The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and more than 150 offices throughout the United States and abroad. The Secret Service was established in 1865, solely to suppress the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. Today, the agency is mandated by Congress to carry out dual missions: protection of national and visiting foreign leaders, and criminal investigations. The agency is responsible for providing security for the President, Vice President, certain other government officials, and visiting foreign diplomats, and for protecting U.S. currency by enforcing the laws relating to counterfeiting, forgery, and credit-card fraud.
Legal Definition list
- United States Refugee Program [USRP]
- United States Railway Association
- United States Qualifying Tribal Entity
- United States Public Health Service (PSH)
- United States Presidential Nominating Convention
- United States Secret Service
- United States Secretary of Defense
- United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
- United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- United States Sentencing Commission
- United States Southern Command [USSOUTHCOM]
Related Legal Terms
- Absent Uniformed Services Voter
- Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual
- Acceptable Quality Level [Agricultural Marketing Service]
- Acceptance [Agricultural Marketing Service]
- Acceptance of Service Agreement
- Accompanying the Armed Forces outside the United States
- Accompanying the Federal Government Outside the United States
- Acta Exteriora Iudicant Interiora Secreta
- Action for the Loss of Services
- Active Military Service
