Retired Bush: 'high value terrorist target' per SS.

[The Backlash Cometh]

File this under, "One of those things he should have thought about six years ago."



CNN reported Thursday that the Secret Service expects President Bush to be "a high value terrorist target after he leaves office." They then showed the Secret Service practicing to deal with everything from James Bond-style stealth weapons to roadside IED's in order to meet that challenge.

Retired agent Terry Samway told CNN, "We have the mandate to make sure that whatever they did during their presidency, they are still safe from any of those lingering issues after their presidency."

Even before 9/11, the cost of protection for former presidents was estimated as $24 million a year, and Bush will be guarded by an unprecedented 103 full-time agents starting in January 2009. However, a 1997 law limits the duration of Secret Service protection for former presidents to just 10 years.

"But before they can protect a president or former president," concluded CNN, "the new recruits are drilled in the basics, including target practice at 100 yards and then a sprint to load and fire again -- this time much more up close and personal."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Secret_Service_Retired_Bush_will_be_0621.html

[HereSince1628]

1. So, I say lock the asshole in a dungeon where no one can hurt him.

And where he can be rewarded for "whatever he did during his presidency."

[Warpy]

4. yeah, locate it in Paraguay

in the center of that 90,000 acres he bought next to his lord and savior, Moon.

Face it, even if he gets away with all his crimes against this country, he's in prison for the rest of his life. It might be a mink lined prison, but it's still a prison.

[laheina]

6. It would definitely be cheaper.

We could start paying back his war spending.

[peace13]

2. So sad, all of this effort to protect a madman

while soldiers heading to Iraq get little training and broken equipment. Doesn't make sense.

[sutz12]

3. Target? Terrorists should be erecting statues to the guy...

He did more for terrorist recruiting than 50 years of misguided foreign policy by 6 presidents.

He'll be a fucking hero to them. :shrug:

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[The Backlash Cometh]

5. True. Why hurt the golden goose?

I'm wondering, if Bush gets impeached, is he entitled to secret service protection?

[BurtWorm]

7. Congratulations, Bush boy.

You finally made something of yourself. :eyes:

[TheLeftyMom]

8. What disturbs me is that

Ex-presidents only get 10 years protection? We've go idiots like Glenn Beck and his cronies advocating that former presidents need whacked but they only have 10 years?

If they were all Reagan/McCain type ages, that'd be fine, but Clinton, Edwards, Obama, and hell, even Chimpy are relatively young men!!!