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August 4, 2009

Book: Obama Faces 30 Death Threats a Day
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A new book on the history of the Secret Service reports the rate of
threats against the President has increased 400 percent since President
Obama took office in January as the nation’s first African American
president. According to author Ronald Kessler, Obama is the target of
more than thirty potential death threats a day. Most of the threats have
been kept under wraps, because the Secret Service fears that revealing
details of them would only increase the number of copycat attempts.



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