Secret Service: Contact Us to ‘Report a Tweet’
By Susan Jones
On a day when terror threats continued to dominate the U.S. headlines, the Secret Service — a division of the Homeland Security Department since 2003 — tweeted the following message:
“Contact your nearest field office with time-sensitive or critical info or to report a tweet,” said one message.
That tweet from the Secret Service links to telephone numbers for every Secret Service office in the U.S. or its territories (there are 117 of them) and all 20 Secret Service offices overseas.
In a separate tweet on Tuesday morning, the Secret Service asked, “Have you seen any of our Most Wanted?” This tweet links to a list of suspects, most wanted for theft or fraud. None are listed as suspected terrorists.
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Photo Credit: APSecret Service Will Use ‘Social Media Monitoring’ Software for Intelligence
By Elizabeth Harrington
The Secret Service is looking to monitor social media for intelligence purposes, according to a solicitation posted by the Department of Homeland Security.
“This solicitation is primarily for social media monitoring/open source portal software licenses,” the document stated.
“The Government is seeking licenses for software solutions involving, but not limited to, real-time open source intelligence monitoring.”
Details of the solicitation have not been revealed as the full Statement of Work (SOW) is only being made available to contractors that respond to the notice.
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