{"id":6359,"date":"2026-10-25T02:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/secret-service-faces-rising-threats-and-policy-gaps\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T02:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:26:58","slug":"secret-service-faces-rising-threats-and-policy-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/secret-service-faces-rising-threats-and-policy-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service Faces Rising Threats and Policy Gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> CBS 60 Minutes reports a sharp increase in threats against protected officials as federal investigators identify weaknesses in Secret Service policies and questions emerge about counter-drone procurement. WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 October 25, 2026 (STL.News) The highly regarded United States Secret Service is confronting increased demands on its protective operations as agency leaders report rising threats against national officials, a federal watchdog identifies weaknesses in security policy management, and separate news investigations raise questions about the agency\u2019s counter-drone program. During an October 11, 2026, 60 Minutes broadcast, Secret Service Director Sean Curran told CBS News that threats against individuals receiving<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/secret-service-faces-rising-threats-and-policy-gaps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS 60 Minutes reports a sharp increase in threats against protected officials as federal investigators identify weaknesses in Secret Service policies and questions emerge about counter-drone procurement. WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 October 25, 2026 (STL.News) The highly regarded United States Secret&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}