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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups and a new wave of anti-government fervor threaten to overwhelm the U.S. Secret Service, according to government officials and reports, raising new questions about the 144-year-old agency's overall mission.
The Secret Service is tracking a far broader range of possible threats to the nation's leaders, the officials said, even as it also investigates financial crimes such as counterfeiting as part of its original mandate.
The new demands are leading some officials, both inside and outside the agency, to raise the possibility of the service curtailing or dropping its role in fighting financial crime to focus more on protecting leaders and their families from assassination attempts and thwarting terrorist plots aimed at high-profile events.
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