Nbadan
05-29-2007, 06:02 PM
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).
Linky (http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/215)
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).
Linky (http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/215)