Chapter 632 White-hot

Chapter 632 White-hot

Chapter 632 White-hot

Only one Secret Service person came down. He was wearing a suit, which meant he was not from the uniformed group, but his order at this moment seemed to be the most powerful.

Another person who shouted at the police to stop Gao Yi and his group was an FBI agent, but his words were of little use because Buck, who was also from the FBI, was holding up his ID and asking the police to let them go.

Jolson said that the CIA would be here soon, but they haven't shown up yet. However, Gao Yi believed that the Secret Service were helpers brought by Jolson to cover his departure.

The reason is simple. The CIA has no law enforcement power in the United States, but the Secret Service does, and its authority is very high. When it comes to a confrontation with the FBI, the only one that can give in is the FBI.

The most confused people now are the police.

The situation was complicated to begin with, and I didn't know whether I should control these unidentified people in front of me, or pretend I didn't see them and just let them go.

If the police were to handle it, they would have to take everyone away first and bring them to the police station for questioning. But now, seeing that a group of untouchable units were holding up their ID cards and shouting, how could a few patrol officers handle this?

The Secret Service rushed in front of the police. He took one look at the FBI agent who was shouting with his ID in hand, his face turned cold, and he pointed at the agent and said, "Who are you? Show me your ID!"

The FBI guy definitely didn't expect that the Secret Service would come out to disrupt the situation, and he was very averse to direct conflict with the Secret Service. He stood where he was, quickly put away his ID, and looked at a loss like an elementary school student who had done something wrong.

A female police officer looked at her superior with a blank expression. She whispered, "Sir, what should we do?"

He was just an ordinary patrolman, but now, it seemed that all the pressure fell on him. He looked at the people holding their ID cards on both sides. The highest-ranking patrolman on the scene suddenly said, "I feel that the United States was not as divided as it is now during the Civil War."

After saying something inexplicable, the policeman stepped aside and said, "Make way. This matter has nothing to do with us."

It seemed that the Secret Service had the situation under control. At this time, another car stopped on the side of the road, the door opened, Jolson got out of the car, and then another person Gao Yi didn't know got out.

Jolson didn't greet Gao Yi directly. He glanced at Gao Yi and then shook his head with a barely perceptible movement.

If Qiao Ersen really came to pick up Gao Yi and leave, he should have told Gao Yi directly what to do, instead of pretending not to know him as he did now.

The person who got off the same car as Jolson also seemed surprised. After getting off the car, he directly asked the Secret Service: "What are you doing here?"

"Why did you come here?"

The two of them started eating outside.

Joelson winked at Gao Yi. He seemed very nervous, and the person he brought with him shouted beside the car: "I was ordered to come here to protect the person designated by the president. What are you doing here?"

"I have been ordered to deal with a special security incident urgently."

They are all from the Secret Service. The one who came first was not sent by the President, but by the Department of Homeland Security. The one who came with Jolson was sent by the President. The Secret Service also came to join in the fun, but, just like the FBI, the Secret Service is also divided into two factions.

The Secret Service is an operational unit under the Department of Homeland Security. Before 03, it was under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department. Its main responsibility was to prevent and investigate the counterfeiting of US dollars and bonds. After the 911/ incident, the United States established the Department of Homeland Security, and then gave the Secret Service to the Department of Homeland Security. It is the Department of Homeland Security's most important law enforcement agency.

It does not have as much foundation as the FBI and CIA, and has far fewer people, but now the Secret Service's authority can be said to be greater than both the FBI and the CIA, because now the U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism tasks are all under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security, which has taken away a lot of power from the FBI and the CIA.

Then, here comes the point.

In addition to the mission characteristics inherited from the period when it was under the Treasury Department, the Secret Service's main responsibilities are now to protect the President, Vice President, President-elect, Vice President-elect, former Presidents and their spouses, presidential and vice presidential candidates confirmed within 120 days before the general election, children and grandchildren under the age of 16 of current and former presidents, visiting foreign heads of state and government and their spouses, individuals designated by presidential order, and national special security incidents designated by the Department of Homeland Security.

The key points are the last two sentences, individuals designated by the President, and national special security events designated by the Department of Homeland Security.

If the Secret Service came to protect the person designated by the president, then the president took direct action and openly stood on Gao Yi's side.

If it is a special security incident designated by the Department of Homeland Security, then it means that the Department of Homeland Security is at fault, and it is currently difficult to distinguish between the fate of enemies and friends.

The situation was certainly chaotic, but not particularly dangerous.

Gao Yi was not sure whether he should just go out and get in the car and leave without caring about anything, or step back a little and wait for them to argue out a result before leaving, or, no matter who is blocking the way outside, they should just use force to clear the way and fight their way out.

Looking at the chaos outside the door, Yuri suddenly said to Gao Yi: "Step back, be careful, I have a bad feeling."

Gao Yi just felt it was a mess, but he didn't feel it was that dangerous. However, after Yuri said that, he seemed to feel that something was indeed not right.

Yuri took a few steps back, and Gao Yi followed suit. Now they were completely back in the lobby of Compaq Building.

Yuri frowned, and said in confusion: "I always thought I knew the United States very well, but now, what's happening here makes me confused. Since when did the U.S. Secret Service ignore the will of the president? The fight that was not allowed to be seen in the light is now being carried out in the open. Has the FBI gone crazy?"

Gao Yi whispered, "They didn't say the Secret Service was coming. They only said they would be here to pick us up in three minutes. But why are there more Secret Service people here? And they don't even want to say hello to us. What does this mean?"

Yuri looked puzzled and said, "We don't have the ability to tear the United States apart, and the president won't publicly protect us. Frankly speaking, we are not worthy of that. Our identities will never allow the president of the United States to take a stand. Now it has become like this, there must be some unexpected situation."

"The reward for the book?"

"Impossible, the reward for this book is not enough."

Yuri sighed and said, "That can only be an internal struggle among the highest levels of the United States. If we suddenly become important, it means that our existence threatens someone. If I'm not mistaken, we should be used as a weapon to attack the president. That must be the case."

(End of this chapter)