Cheney Could Keep Security Detail

[sabra]

Source: WP

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.

"We believe that it's a pretty safe bet with the threat environment we face today that Vice President Cheney will be afforded Secret Service protection upon his departure," Sullivan told the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security last week.



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

[Earth_First]

1. If that's the case, Cheney should foot the bill PERSONALLY... n.t

[libodem]

7. Yep,

only that might be even more dangerous. He'll have his own Blackwater contingency. Cheney's personal little mercenary army. Just what we need, a dictator, with a personal private army. He's such an evil demented bastard.

[morningglory]

20. You said it! That rat bastard will need some protection in prison. nt

[ShockediSay]

22. What if he got "renditioned?" nt

[TechBear_Seattle]

52. The correct verb is "rendered"

As in, "Lard is rendered pig fat." :toast:

[wordpix]

39. amen, yes he should

[Democrats_win]

2. Poetic justice: Like many monsters, he will live in a cave, and in fear.

[napi21]

3. I can sure understand why! As much as he's hated, I'm surprised

they're only talking about 6 months!

[Demeter]

33. That's Probably the "Low, Introductory Offer"

and renewing Cheney's coverage will become a semi-annual event after the Teaser runs its course.

[AzDar]

4. Dick Cheney, SCARED, after leaving office?

We The People say : "SO"??????

[dogfacedboy]

5. We won't hear the rightscum whine about this waste of "our money", will we?

That 6 months will be just enough time for that cowardly cow to run and hide overseas, I suppose.
Surely this is an attempt to dodge the inevitable attempts to arrest and try him.

[libodem]

10. oh, hell no

only if it's a Democrat. They are so partisan it's not funny. What utter hypocrites. OK for them but not anybody else. We should have caught on by now how they play their little games.

[tanyev]

6. Angler? I'm surprised they haven't changed that to "Duck!"

[lunatica]

42. Why not The First Dick

Like the First Lady, First family, etc. It's not like no one will know who they're referring to.

[Mind_your_head]

8. Why would ANYONE go after a vice president after he's left office?

I don't think cheney or any vp needs protection beyond their office. a vp doesn't have the power to need such protection, right? ....no, definitely not.

[Bonobo]

9. One difference, though. If he shows up in my town and I call him an asshole and refuse

to shake his hand, I am confident my civil liberties will be preserved and I will not be arrested with President Obama in office.

:toast:

[awoke_in_2003]

21. As long as you don't

tell him to go fuck himself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p3SemYQH-8o&feature=related

[Hulk]

11. Without sounding like a threat myself....he'll need it.

This man is probably the most hated politician in the land. He should be tried as a war criminal, and he spits in the face of decency.

He'll need a body guard for the rest of his days. Hopefully, that won't be too long, as I hate to see our country go deeper into debt on account of this prick.

[dogfacedboy]

12. I wish for his heart to seize up each and every day.

I will, someday, dance and shit on his grave.

[Eric Condon]

26. I've wondered before about how they'll have to handle Cheney and Bush's graves once they're gone.

I mean, there is NO WAY they can have them accessible in any way by the public. Those graves would be defaced before the caskets containing their worthless bones were even lowered down into them.

[santamargarita]

32. That's when they'll need the Secret Service! My Dog hates Bush!

K&R

[kskiska]

13. Suppose he was arrested while under SS protection

Then what?

[Myoho]

14. Not at taxpayers expense

This treasonous bastard has made enough over the last 7 years from Halliburton and KBR to provide his security at his own expense.

Fuck him. Let his treasonous ass pay for his own security.

After his term is over and he moves to Dubai, maybe he can hire the Taliban to guard his fat diseased ass at a discount rate!

[Amonester]

15. imagine that: it will take the dic-k 6 months to move all his loot$ to...

Dubai (off to dominate "the world" there)

[Gman]

16. Cheney's made so damn much money in the last 8 years

including his stock options, let him pay for his own security.

[Dreamer Tatum]

46. Same argument could be made for Bill Clinton nt

[Lorien]

47. Halliburtan stock went up over 3000%

and he started out with what? 34 million dollars worth? We should rename him the "looter in chief"!

[mulsh]

17. lots of protection in prison let's send him there & save money.

n/t

[samspade.]

18. Gee. Does he fear rendition?

Perhaps some foreign tribunal would seize him the way the Israeli's nabbed Adolf Eichmann.

Of course, that's a nutty idea, but remember the Cheney doctrine:

Even if there's just a 1 percent chance of the unimaginable coming due, act as if it is a certainty.

You can't make this stuff up.

Sam

[ConcernedCanuk]

19. Cheney won't need no security detail if he's in a Super Max where he belongs.

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$4million should be more than enough for what is rest of his life.

It'll be worth it.

[williesgirl]

23. I'm sure Blackwater will donate their services. NOT ONE FUCKING DIME OF TAXPAYERS money should be

spent on this rich fucker. Call your congresspeople and Senators NOW and scream bloody murder. Start writing letters to the editors in all types of publications to get the word out to Joe Six Pack. rec'd

[Arctic Dave]

24. I think all these worthless bags of shit will need protection

for the rest of their (hopefuly short) life. I can honestly say if something "bad" were to happen to them I would have a smile on my face for a week. Fuck them and all who support them.

[greyghost]

30. I'd be smiling for a very long time.

:toast:

[keopeli]

25. The hidden message is: be afraid.

Our country is so overrun by terrorists and rogue elements that even the reclusive former VP will need round-the-clock security from this dire threat.

Are you believing this? Many people will. The Republics need you to be afraid before you vote in November.

My question is, who exactly is he afraid of?

[NEOBuckeye]

27. What a leech n/t

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[liberalla]

31. Junk Post - Not on topic

You're posting this identical message in many threads, and it's completely unrelated to the subject.

[greyghost]

29. You mean someone wants to do Dick harm? So what.

[wordpix]

40. "so?"

[JCMach1]

34. I hear they have great security in The Hague

[Judi Lynn]

35. It seems there's a pattern for Republican vice-presidents. Eisenhower's hateful vice-president

was Richard Nixon. Remember hearing how popular he was when he visited Venezuela in 1958?






Nixon was Number 1!



Nixon's Vice President Spiro Agnew
Unspeakable asshole




Ford's Vice President shown waving hello to
an admirer, captured by press photographers.



Reagan's vice President and his lovely father

http://boortz.com.nyud.net:8090/images/dick_cheney_segway.jpg

That nice Dick Cheney

[Kolesar]

36. Be cheaper to just drop him off in Gitmo ... eom

[Algorem]

37. he really is one especially chicken chickenhawk.

shoot some more caged birds,chicken dick.

[maddezmom]

38. He should pay for it, he can afford it

[MichiganVote]

51. Going to have more money than the US as it is....

[Hugabear]

41. The only security Cheney should have is the guard outside his cell

n/t

[Jester_11218]

44. AMEN!

His cell In Guantanamo!

[Hugabear]

45. Not Guantanamo - The Hague

I don't want some future president coming along and issuing him a pardon.

[LibertyLover]

43. Not just no, but hell, no

If Cheney wants protection let him pay for it himself. I'm sure that Halliburton will give him a good deal, you know, professional courtesy and all that. I'm tired of paying to protect that man. I see his motorcade sweep through the streets of Washington DC most mornings as I'm going to work and it's downright awful how many DC police, SUVs, motorcycles and Secret Service it takes to guard one man. Other vice presidents have managed without security protection from the government just fine, so let's just continue that tradition.

[liberal N proud]

48. It is going to take him six months to find a country where he can hide

[damntexdem]

49. Yes, Darth Cheney certainly needs a security detail ...

to escort him to the Hague to stand trial for war crimes.

[rateyes]

50. I say that Cheney should save the taxpayers some money and

drop dead.