U.S. President Barack ObamaBarack Obama Faces 30 Death Threats A Day, Stretching US Secret Service -- The Telegraph
US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.
Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service.
Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.
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My Comment: I remembered reading that there were over 1,000 active investigations on threats against President Reagan when he was in the White House.
Sigh .... being a leader in a democracy is sometimes a thankless job.