will we be paying for SS protection for Rove after 8/31?

[grasswire]

And who will make sure that he loses his security clearance? The guy has been allowed privileges to which he was not entitled. They shouldn't continue.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Congress should defund all taxpayer paid political consulting positions..

if the White House wants a political operative, the corresponding national committee should pay for it.

[liberal N proud]

2. I don't believe he is eligible now for SS protection

Even when traveling with bu$h, the SS is there to protect bu$h not the aids.

[MaineDem]

6. That's what I thought, too

Why should he be getting it now?

[grasswire]

7. I believe he was getting protection at home

I'll see if I can find anything about it. It may have been privatized.

[MADem]

3. Unless I've been sleeping through a law change, he's not entitled to SS protection.

Unless he runs for President and gets threats. OR he becomes the President-elect.

Once he's off the payroll, he doesn't necessarily lose clearance, but what he loses (or should lose) is ACCESS. The end result is the same thing.

But what's really happened is that he's gone from full-time to part-time. Bet he's on the phone a lot, and bet George goes to Crawford more than usual too, where Karl visits quietly....

[grasswire]

8. well, there's this story

"WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Mike Leavitt, asking for information regarding possible EPA grants awarded to an interest group - National People's Action - that recently picketed the personal residence of Presidential advisor Karl Rove. The protest occurred when he and his children were home and that U.S. Secret Service and D.C. Metropolitan Police were required to disperse the group from Mr. Rove's lawn.
"


http://www.nationalcenter.org/2004/04/epa-asked-to-supply-information-on.html

[MADem]

9. It's one thing to dispatch them as a consequence of one's work, it's another thing altogether to

give them protection after they leave office. And often, the protection while they are working isn't much more than stepped-up police presence and an SS (the Treasury Department guys, not the elites) escort to and from work or crowded venues. I remember when Donna Shalala (who dismissed her protection because she didn't like the guy breathing down her neck) got MUGGED at the ATM right across the street from the one in G-Town where that big murder happened...

But once they're done, they're done. He'll have to hire someone if he wants a detail.

[Misskittycat]

4. When I first read this title, I thought of a different "SS" n/t

[Benhurst]

5. As of late, same difference.

The Secret Service has been acting like an arm of the Bush Crime Family. I'll grant them their duty to protect any president, even an unelected one.
But they have been strong-arming citizens exercising their rights under the Constitution. "First Amendment Zones," indeed. What disgrace.