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Obama Extends Cheney SS Protection

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Anonymous

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I wonder if the rightwingernut "fiscal conservatives" will scream about this unprecedented taxpayer expense :???: :wink:

Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection
July 10, 2009 03:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

There appears no end in sight for when Dick Cheney, a rare former vice president with Secret Service protection, will lose his security detail. Whispers has learned that the political battler's Secret Service protection has been extended, though there were no details on the length. We don't know why President Obama OK'd the extension, which must be approved by the commander in chief because former veeps typically don't get any Secret Service security after leaving office. But indications are that the threats against Cheney, who's working on his biography at his homes in Virginia and Maryland, haven't lessened since his term expired.
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
I wonder if the rightwingernut "fiscal conservatives" will scream about this unprecedented taxpayer expense :???: :wink:

Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection
July 10, 2009 03:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

There appears no end in sight for when Dick Cheney, a rare former vice president with Secret Service protection, will lose his security detail. Whispers has learned that the political battler's Secret Service protection has been extended, though there were no details on the length. We don't know why President Obama OK'd the extension, which must be approved by the commander in chief because former veeps typically don't get any Secret Service security after leaving office. But indications are that the threats against Cheney, who's working on his biography at his homes in Virginia and Maryland, haven't lessened since his term expired.

If you moonbats would stop the threats, the protection and related expenses could stop.
 

VanC

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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
I wonder if the rightwingernut "fiscal conservatives" will scream about this unprecedented taxpayer expense :???: :wink:

Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection
July 10, 2009 03:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

There appears no end in sight for when Dick Cheney, a rare former vice president with Secret Service protection, will lose his security detail. Whispers has learned that the political battler's Secret Service protection has been extended, though there were no details on the length. We don't know why President Obama OK'd the extension, which must be approved by the commander in chief because former veeps typically don't get any Secret Service security after leaving office. But indications are that the threats against Cheney, who's working on his biography at his homes in Virginia and Maryland, haven't lessened since his term expired.

If you moonbats would stop the threats, the protection and related expenses could stop.

I was thinking the same thing. Looks like a clear-cut case of violent, hateful, neanderthal, left-wingernuts making threats against someone they disagree with. Some people!! :roll:
 
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VanC said:
Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
I wonder if the rightwingernut "fiscal conservatives" will scream about this unprecedented taxpayer expense :???: :wink:

If you moonbats would stop the threats, the protection and related expenses could stop.

I was thinking the same thing. Looks like a clear-cut case of violent, hateful, neanderthal, left-wingernuts making threats against someone they disagree with. Some people!! :roll:

I don't think its just left wingernuts-or US folks- as I heard the State Dept officials over a year ago telling Congress that Bush, Cheney, Rummy and many of the attorneys involved in the torture decisions were in danger from many foreign sources that wanted to bring them up on war crimes charges- and would try to abduct them to bring them to trial... Powell's former assistant advised them that none travel out of the country because of that danger....
 

Tam

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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
I wonder if the rightwingernut "fiscal conservatives" will scream about this unprecedented taxpayer expense :???: :wink:

Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection
July 10, 2009 03:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

There appears no end in sight for when Dick Cheney, a rare former vice president with Secret Service protection, will lose his security detail. Whispers has learned that the political battler's Secret Service protection has been extended, though there were no details on the length. We don't know why President Obama OK'd the extension, which must be approved by the commander in chief because former veeps typically don't get any Secret Service security after leaving office. But indications are that the threats against Cheney, who's working on his biography at his homes in Virginia and Maryland, haven't lessened since his term expired.

If you moonbats would stop the threats, the protection and related expenses could stop.

:nod: :clap: The two I would keep an eye on would be Biden and Oldtimer FOR SURE :wink:
 

Texan

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No surprise, but your post doesn't quite tell all of the facts, Oldtimer. In fact, it's actually quite misleading. Again, no surprise.

Protection for former VP's isn't all that "rare". In fact, according to Rep. Lofgren (D-CA) in her statement before Congress in June of last year:

"In January, Vice President Cheney will be leaving office, and we will presumably decide to provide continued Secret Service protection for him and his family, as has been done for every Vice President in recent decades".

Cheney was already set to get protection for six months because of the legislation that Rep. Lofgren was speaking in favor of. The FORMER VICE PRESIDENT PROTECTION ACT OF 2008 was true bipartisan legislation introduced by a Dem, passed by a Dem controlled Congress and signed into law by President Bush. There was even some good bipartisan discussion on the reasons for doing it:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=110-h20080609-23

And the text of the legislation clearly states that it is up to the Secretary of Homeland Security to determine whether or not to extend that protection after the six months is up:

"The Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to direct the Secret Service to provide temporary protection for any of these individuals at any time thereafter if the Secretary of Homeland Security or designee determines that information or conditions warrant such protection."

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=110-h20080609-23
 
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Texan said:
No surprise, but your post doesn't quite tell all of the facts, Oldtimer. In fact, it's actually quite misleading. Again, no surprise.

Teach me to take it from a rightwing publication... :wink: Surprising they are giving Obama all the credit..

http://www.newsmax.com/index.html
 

Texan

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Oldtimer said:
Teach me to take it from a rightwing publication... :wink:
And once again, no surprise when you fail to take personal responsibility for the things you post.
 

hypocritexposer

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I thought there was stimulus funds available for police

Dallas police cut extra protection at George W. Bush's home

01:51 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 8, 2009
By TANYA EISERER/ The Dallas Morning News
[email protected]
The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush.

In addition to the usual Secret Service protection, Dallas until last week had stationed one on-duty tactical officer per eight-hour shift on the street outside the president’s home. The estimated cost of that service was $300,000 for about a year, according to police officials who asked that they not be named.

“We just had to cut it,” said one police official, who agreed to speak on the condition on anonymity. “We’re about to layoff people.”
 
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