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Secret Service Guards Obama

Posted May 3, 07 3:58 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has authorized Secret Service protection for presidential candidate Barack Obama, CNN reports. A spokesman would not explain the reason for the assignment but said the secretary acted at the campaign's request. The Secret Service said the coverage is not in response to a specific threat, although New York's WABC reported otherwise.

"For security reasons we will not release the timing, scope or details of any protective operations," Chertoff said in a statement. The move—the earliest assignment since the Secret Service started guarding major candidates in 1968—makes Obama the first 2008 hopeful who is not a former First Lady to have a Secret Service detail.

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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff testifies before...   (Getty Images)
US Secretaryfor Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, left, and Britain's Home Secretary John Reid, right, at a press conference at the Home Office in London, Friday April 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)   (Associated Press)
US Secretary of State for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, left, and Britain's Home Secretary John Reid, right, at a press conference at the Home Office in London, Friday April 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Kirsty...   (Associated Press)
Secret Service agents stand guard outside the home of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama Thursday, May 3, 2007, in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The Secret Service said Thursday that Obama was being placed...   (Associated Press)
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