Latest news with #TheSecretService
India.com
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
7 Hollywood Spy Thriller Movies To Watch
Zee Media Bureau Jul 10, 2025 When skilled CIA operative Court Gentry (codename 'Sierra Six') uncovers dark agency secrets, he becomes the target of a global manhunt led by unhinged ex-CIA mercenary Lloyd Hansen Salt (2010) is an action-thriller starring Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper spy. The Kingsman franchise is a series of stylish British spy action films created by Matthew Vaughn, based on the comic books The Secret Service by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons. The Mission: Impossible film franchise is a series of American action spy movies based on the 1966 television series of the same name. The films follow Ethan Hunt, a highly skilled secret agent played by Tom Cruise, who works for the Impossible Mission Force (IMF), a covert government agency tasked with handling dangerous global threats. In Tenet, a secret agent learns to reverse time to stop a future global catastrophe, battling a villain who can communicate with the future. Time flows forward and backward in a high-stakes sci-fi thriller. Set in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. follows CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin, who are forced to team up on a mission to stop a mysterious criminal organization from using nuclear weapons to disrupt the fragile balance of power Read Next Story
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump accuses former FBI director of calling for his killing through coded picture
Donald Trump accused the former FBI director James Comey on Friday of calling for his assassination in a coded social media post written in seashells. Comey's Instagram post – a photograph of seashells on a beach arranged to spell the numbers 8647, which he captioned 'Cool shell formation on my beach walk' – was used by rightwing supporters of Trump to claim that it was a call to assassinate the US president. The Secret Service said it has launched an investigation. Comey has said it 'never occurred to me' that the numbers represented a coded threat. The number 86 is common slang for stopping or getting rid of something, typically old equipment, or being ejected from an establishment such as a bar, and is often a synonym for 'nix'. The number 47 could be understood to indicate Trump, the 47th president. Related: James Comey investigated over seashell photo branded 'threat' against Trump The Secret Service, which is in charge of presidential security and is part of the Department of Homeland Security, interviewed Comey later on Friday as part of an 'ongoing investigation', DHS secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on social media. 'He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you're the FBI director and you don't know what that meant? That meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear,' Trump said in an interview with Fox News from Abu Dhabi, where he is wrapping up a four-day Middle East trip. Trump claimed Comey 'was hit so hard because people like me and they like what's happening with our country', adding: 'And he's calling for the assassination of the president.' Comey, who was fired by Trump in 2017 during an investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election, removed the post hours after it began to draw attention from Trump administration officials and supporters. After taking down the post, Comey said he thought it was a political message but said it did not occur to him that it could have been associated with a call to violence. The exchanges are the latest in an ongoing war over inflamed political rhetoric. Two assassination attempts were made against the president last year, both from people without any clear partisan ideology. The number 86 has also been used by Republicans calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden: for example, T-shirts sold on Amazon read '8646', indicating a call to impeach Biden (the 46th president). Overheated political rhetoric has long been a subject of controversy. Biden said last July it had been a mistake for him to say 'time to put Trump in a bullseye', days before Saturday's assassination attempt on his election rival, while Trump has repeatedly used similar language, including suggesting that the former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney might not be such a 'warhawk' if she had rifles 'shooting at her' to see how she felt. A spokesperson for the Secret Service confirmed the agency was 'aware of the incident' and said it would 'vigorously investigate' any potential threat, but did not offer further details. In a statement, Comey said: 'I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. 'I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.' The post ignited a firestorm on the right. 'Disgraced former FBI director James Comey just called for the assassination of POTUS Trump,' the homeland security director, Kristi Noem, wrote on X. 'DHS and Secret Service is investigating this threat and will respond appropriately.' The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said his agency would 'provide all necessary support' as part of an investigation headed by the Secret Service. Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the presidential security agency, said on social media that the agency investigates anything that could be taken as a threat. 'We are aware of the social media posts by the former FBI Director & we take rhetoric like this very seriously,' he added. Related: Latin American leaders spend millions to influence Trump's White House Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, said she didn't buy Comey's explanation that the message carried no greater meaning. Gabbard said Comey had 'just issued a call to action to murder the president of the United States'. 'As a former FBI director and someone who spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, he knew exactly what he was doing and must be held accountable under the full force of the law,' Gabbard posted on X. Gabbard later told Fox News that Comey was 'issuing a hit' on the president and that 'the dangerousness of this cannot be underestimated.' The post comes as the former FBI director is about to publish FDR Drive, the third installment of a crime series about a fictional New York lawyer, Nora Carleton. Publisher's Weekly outlined the plot as centering on a US attorney who tries to bring to justice 'a far-right media personality with a popular podcast vilifying those he thinks are destroying America: intellectuals, immigrants, and people of color'.
Express Tribune
09-03-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Armed man shot by US Secret Service near White House after confrontation
The Secret Service was alerted by local authorities about a potentially suicidal person traveling from Indiana to Washington, and the individual's car was later found a block from the White House. PHOTO: REUTERS Listen to article The US Secret Service shot an armed man outside the White House early on Sunday after a confrontation, and the man is now in an area hospital, it said in a statement. President Donald Trump was not in the White House at the time, as he is spending the weekend at his Florida residence. Secret Service officials received a tip on Saturday from local authorities that a suicidal person may be traveling to Washington from Indiana and the person's car was found a block from the White House, it said in the statement. The man brandished a firearm as officers approached him and the Secret Service opened fire shortly after midnight local time. The man was taken to an area hospital and his condition was not known, the statement said, adding that there were no injuries to Secret Service personnel. Washington's Metropolitan Police, which is investigating the shooting, did not immediately return a message seeking comment. There have been a series of incidents involving armed men shot by security officers on or near the White House grounds over the years, including the shooting, in 2016, of a man who brandished a handgun at a White House security gate. In 2023, a 20-year-old Indian immigrant named Sai Varshith Kandula unsuccessfully tried to break through the White House's protective barriers in a rented truck. Trump himself narrowly survived an assassination attempt in July, when a gunman fired at him during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding his ear. A Secret Service review found that communication gaps and a lack of diligence contributed to the near-miss.
