Politics Can’t Haliburton Pony Up For His Protection?
posted by on April 8 at 15:45 PM
Not only will we be paying for Dick Cheney’s disastrous reign as VP after he’s gone, we’ll also be paying for his protection:
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.
After he's out of office, why the fuck would anyone care what happens to him?
All I'm saying is, he can't go to prison if he's dead.
because he sold his soul to the devil, perhaps he thinks beelzebub is coming after him with a bazooka or somethin'.
Tacit acknowledgement from the Feds that everyone hates Cheney.
Seriously, they may as well encase him in some sort of stain-proof shellack, or, dip him in Scotch-Guard or something, otherwise, as of January 21st his weekly dry-cleaning bill is going to be a monster!
Maybe they should encase him in carbonite.
After one term out of office they cut it back to 1 agent (plus the Office) for a VP and 2 for a President.
Luckily, war crimes tribunal warrants don't have expiration dates.
Jesus, even Schwarzenegger doesn't take a salary, but this asshole is gonna let us pay for his personal body guards on our dime - AFTER he's out of office? The guy's worth millions; the fucker probably would get a sweet deal at Blackwater too.
Let's hope he forgets about it and assumes he has protection ... would love to see some street person mug him for change ...
I was kind of hoping for a list of federal buildings he is no longer permitted to set foot inside, like maybe all of them. Passport office? He won't be needing a passport; as a fugitive war criminal he'll be arrested if he sets foot outside of the country.
How the hell am I supposed to choke him out now?
Isn't he going to live in the bunker Bush is building in Paraguay? (Not kidding, kids, they are buying all sorts of land down there. Google it.)
why does he need protection now? he never seems to leave the bunker..just leave him there
Vanity Fair has an article on who in the Bush Misadministration is eligible to be extradited by the Hague for War Crimes under the Geneva Conventions - it's in the issue that just arrived yesterday in the mail.
He's one of them.
They would be better off to spend the $4m on bionic internal organs so he would actually live for 6 months after he leaves office. Isn't he already his 19th pig heart or something? I can see GWB pushing Dick out to the mob on January 20th, 2009 and then climbing out the back window of the White House.
They would be better off to spend the $4m on bionic internal organs so he would actually live for 6 months after he leaves office. Isn't he already his 19th pig heart or something?
They would be better off to spend the $4m on bionic internal organs so he would actually live for 6 months after he leaves office. Not that we want that either. Isn't he already on his 19th pig heart or something?
They should send him out on hunting trips with the buddy he took out a couple years ago. If karma's as real as My Name is Earl indicates, we'll be dickless before long...
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