Bush has Doubled Admin's Secret Service Protection; Readies 103 Full-Time Agents for his Retirement.

[demobabe]

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

The 2008 campaign will require more Secret Service resources than expected, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The article also brings up some interesting highlights on Secret Service coverage for the Bush administration:

he Bush administration has doubled the number of officials granted Secret Service protection, from 26 to 54, including top White House aides such as the chief of staff and national and homeland security advisers.

Guess the paranoia is justified considering their abysmal approval ratings. We always thought it was just a coincidence that Cheney never leaves his undisclosed location during full moons.

And while the 2008 campaign gets going, the service is also gearing up for January 2009, when President Bush is set to leave office ... The service has begun training agents to fill 103 full-time slots as to be part of the current president's retirement detail.

103 personal, full-time Secret Service agents after he's retired? Bush must not be planning on making any more friends over the next year and a half.

And to think that these are the same folks who didn't want Speaker Pelosi – second in line to the presidency – to have a military plane for official travel (much less a fighter jet to land on an aircraft carrier for a photo op).

More here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/215

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. Detatched service to Paraguay?

I would have thought they were going to arrange their own private army for their retirement compound... :shrug:

[Uncle Joe]

3. My exact thoughts, I was thinking Blackwater. n/t

[MetaTrope]

7. Eh, the Bushes are nothing if not cheap

Whatever they can suck off the government teat, they will.

[Deja Q]

2. Isn't he going to live on that plot of land he bought in South America?

How many other ex-presidents moved out of the US? Or would want to?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. I know you should never cite the nazis... but...

How many former American administrations have basically faced the prospect of being hunted as criminals for the rest of their lives.

[rec_report]

5. LOL! They're going to need the entire Blackwater USA army to protect...

the world's most dangerous terrorist!
:rofl:

Polar Bear

[StarryNite]

6. I guess he's not as dumb as we thought.

[durtee librul]

8. actually he's dumber n/t

[Uben]

9. Impeached presidents do not get protection

Sooooo, git er done, and save us some money!

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Huh?

I mean- not that it wasn't a travesty, but Bill Clinton was impeached, and he still has SS protection I believe.

[arewenotdemo]

11. He's been one EXPENSIVE POS. Looks like he'll stay that way.

[demobabe]

12. He's going to cost us for generations

The 103 SS people will be the least of what he costs us, I'm sure.

[arewenotdemo]

13. Agreed

[SPKrazy]

14. That's insane

how many does Clinton have?

hell he had people after his job during his entire tenure as president, and they tried to take him out of office as well.

living in Arkansas, i can tell you that where i live he was so unpopular that they took down the signs at the border saying the home state of President Clinton.

So how many does Clinton have?

Bush is a raving paranoid

:grr:

[demobabe]

15. kick

:kick: