$11.5 million added to Homeland Security to protect * in 2008

[partylessinOhio]

Protecting the president
Secret Service is making plans for Bush's long-term security
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Chuck McCutcheon

Washington - President Bush has more than two years left in the White House, but planning is already under way to provide him security once he leaves.

The spending bill for the Homeland Security Department, which Bush recently signed into law, includes money to recruit, hire and train new Secret Service agents to work on the 2008 campaign trail. When Bush becomes an ex-president, those recruits will replace senior agents currently assigned to him. ...


The report said Bush, like his father George H.W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton, is expected to be active and to travel overseas. But because of the war in Iraq and the ongoing terrorism threat, "the president's post-presidency detail will require significantly more resources than are currently staffing other former presidents."

The Homeland Security Department originally asked Congress for $5 million to pay for 17 agents associated with Bush's post-presidency needs in 2008. Lawmakers added $11.5 million to cover those positions and the costs of protecting presidential candidates. ...

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[LisaM]

1. I don't even expect him to leave the ranch

I would be extremely surprised if he travelled overseas after he's out of office.

[louis-t]

2. Will SS follow him to Paraguay?

[kentuck]

3. I knew it!!

I predicted that.

[wakeme2008]

4. I will lay money,,, somewhere King George has added his OWN private

Air Force airplane on call 24/7 once he is out of office... :grr:

[silverweb]

5. Heh.

How about we just assign him a nice big burly cellmate for protection?

:evilgrin:

[leveymg]

6. They'll need 17 guys to protect him from the other inmates

And, those are just his relatives and former Cabinet Officers who are pissed at him.

He'll need an army of agents to protect him from the general prison population.

[mentalsolstice]

7. Isn't this the incurious president who doesn't like to travel?

And so much of my post-presidency satisfaction has come from the fact that Clinton is the last POTUS to be eligible for lifetime SS protection. From Bush on, they're only eligible for SS protection for 10 years after they leave office. I figured at that point, if he isn't already in jail, he and Pickles (if she hasn't divorced his ass) would be forced into the federal witness protection program. Ha!

[Lipton64]

8. 12 million dollars for security??

Is he buying them all imported wine and four-course dinners at 5-star restaurants every night? How in God's holy name can it cost that much? They don't get paid that much do they? Glocks don't cost that much do they? Shit man.