Taxpayers are paying $4 million for Cheney's Secret Service detail

[tj2001]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/07/AR2008040702389.html

Cheney Could Keep Security Detail
Secret Service Calls 6-Month Extension Prudent, Probable
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 8, 2008; Page A17

The man code-named "Angler" by the Secret Service will probably continue to receive the agency's protection long after he leaves office next year. The Secret Service is preparing to provide Vice President Cheney with agents, transportation, advance work and other security-related trappings of executive power for six months after the Bush administration packs up and moves out in January, the agency's director, Mark Sullivan, told Congress last week. The expected cost: $4 million.

Although presidents and their spouses are entitled to Secret Service protection long after they depart the White House, federal law authorizes protective services for the vice president and his immediate family only during his time in office. Extending Cheney's detail would require a directive from the president or a joint resolution of Congress...

Until recently, presidents have been entitled to Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. But 1994 legislation imposed new restrictions on presidents elected after Jan. 1, 1997, limiting President Bush and his successors to 10 years of protection after leaving office.

The protective services go well beyond the detail of agents that shadow the president (or vice president) wherever he goes. They include providing armored limousines, assessing threats, dispatching advance workers and coordinating with local law enforcement officials to establish security checkpoints and ensure secure, unfettered access for official motorcades.

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Vice President Cheney disclosed a portfolio worth as much as $94.6 million in 2005.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051501638_pf.html

[patrice]

1. If we can't imprison him, he should be Deported to whatever island Ken Lay is on.

NOT a very satisfactory resolution, but it would be good not to have to bear the financial cost of protecting the sorry son-of-a-bitch.

[NYCGirl]

2. The article is from last year. Do we know if they followed through? If so, it ends

next month, anyway.

[tj2001]

4. He is receiving Secret Service protection:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-TvERr7OQkjI4DQ7uaSjrxclMwwD98C0N980

Cheney, 68, has squeezed public defense of Bush policies into his private life, which he splits between his suburban Washington home in McLean, Va. and his homes in Wyoming and on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

He still has Secret Service protection, but drives himself whenever possible. He spends time working on his memoirs and at his transition office in McLean. Every few weeks he hosts lunch for guests around his kitchen table to discuss foreign policy and national security issues.

[NYCGirl]

5. And it'll end in July. I would expect the same from VP Biden if he requested when

his terms end.

[shraby]

3. Looks like he'll lose protection at the end of July?

What's the paranoid mouth going to do then? Maybe use some of his ill-gotten gains to provide his own protection? Poor Dick!!

[abluelady]

6. He Needs Secret Service

Imagine if the "terrarists" get him and waterboard him. What do you think? Six seconds and he'll spill every secret he has? The security of our country needs him protected! lol

[LiberalFighter]

7. Just cut his tongue out.

[Overseas]

8. He has his millions made from war profiteering. He can hire his own.

KBR, Halliburton and Blackwater/Xe should all furnish him with free protection for life because he gave them billions of taxpayer money already to do "a heck of a job" for us. They could fund it just by tapping into the generous bonuses they received as part of their no-bid contracts.