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The Secret Service says anyone who will be in secure zones will go through such checks. Secret Service takes on new credentialing role for conventions

A new media credentialing process in place for the Republican and Democratic conventions this summer has some journalists sounding the alarm.

For the first time this year, the Secret Service has a hand in credentialing the media; during previous conventions only the Congressional press galleries were in charge of credentialing the media. Members of the media began hearing more about the Secret Services' role in the credentialing process as they began to attend walk-throughs at thewhich point it automatically opens to permit fluid flow through the catheter. The catheter is produced by the steps of providing a substantially rigid tube open at both ends and a flexible hose shorter in length and smaller in diameter than said tube, said hose having a closed end, and an open end, the hose preferably tapering from the open end down to a smaller closed end. The hose advantageously has a varying wall thickness, being thicker at the large end of the taper and gradually thinning toward the small end. A port is cut in the side of the hose adjacent the closed end and leaving the tip as a pendant upon the now ported end of the hose. This tip is next inverted and inserted in