Investigative journalist Carol Leonnig said after Barack Obama won the presidency, but before he’d entered office, the Secret Service fielded ‘nearly four times’ as many threats against him as they had for any other president. “President Obama arrives and is inaugurated into the White House. In the months before he arrives, the director of the Secret Service is pretty worried because the number of threats against Obama’s life as president-elect are nearly four times what the Secret Service has seen before with other presidents in history. And the director seeks hundreds of millions of dollars to try to up basically the security around the White House and around the president.”