Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection

[Kadie]

Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection
July 10, 2009 03:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

There appears no end in sight for when Dick Cheney, a rare former vice president with Secret Service protection, will lose his security detail. Whispers has learned that the political battler's Secret Service protection has been extended, though there were no details on the length. We don't know why President Obama OK'd the extension, which must be approved by the commander in chief because former veeps typically don't get any Secret Service security after leaving office. But indications are that the threats against Cheney, who's working on his biography at his homes in Virginia and Maryland, haven't lessened since his term expired.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/07/10/obama-extends-cheneys-secret-service-protection.html

[timeforpeace]

1. Threats? Who's making threats?

[formercia]

11. Cheney is such a wuss

He's afraid of his own shadow. He can order people killed and send men to die but a few bloggers make him shake in his boots.

[malaise]

18. Wuss is a kind word

He's a fugging coward - begging for tax payers to protect him after breaking every law in the book.

Where's Liz - she wants protection as well?

Fuck you Dick!!!

[williesgirl]

2. Let this rich criminal pay for his own security. Not my tax dollars! rec'd

[supernova]

3. Disappointed.

I think they should take Cheney to the dessert, bury him up to his neck and leave him for the scorpions, among other predators.

[Echo In Light]

4. And to think there are still those who think he'll be brought up on charges/do time, etc

Hysterical...

[supernova]

5. lol!

Well, the civilised part of me would prefer that.

But the uncivilized part of me, well that's not printable. Would get me a SS visit.

I compromised.

:D

[Obamanaut]

7. That would cause an uproar from PETA, for bringing about an

outbreak of retching and gagging from the scorpion and other predator communities.

[timeforpeace]

13. This of course is by no means intended as a threat, right?

[supernova]

14. Hey, if he's left in the dessert

I'd say the odds are even.

:D

[Mythsaje]

6. Threats? Really?

I guess there are dumbfucks on the left as well as on the right. Unless the threats aren't politically based. I mean, he's screwed people financially too, hasn't he?

[arcadian]

9. The threat is that somebody actually found out where he lives.

http://eyeball-series.org/cheney-uc/cheney-uc.htm

[Mythsaje]

19. I'm not sure one could actually, legimately say he "lives."

"Exists," perhaps. Does Cheney "live?" Now that's a question for philosophers of the future, isn't it? "Living Vice President or Undead Menace--You decide."

[KansDem]

8. Actually, Cheney got a robocall asking him if he wanted "to extend his SS protection..."

We get the same thing, only its to extend service contracts on our cars...

[supernova]

10. Hee Hee

Nice.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Maybe Mother Nature will be helpful and shorten it.

[csziggy]

15. When this story was reported a week or more ago people here wondered if the SS was to keep an eye on

Cheney so he didn't disappear to an 'undisclosed location' as investigations into his illegal activities progress.

[supernova]

16. Very good point.

[Kadie]

17. I didn't think of it that way.

Makes sense.

[blueknight]

20. just add this to the list

of how obama and the dems have dissapointed me since the election. why should this murderous,theiving bastard get protection on MY DIME? he is filthy rich, let him pay his own way with the money he stole from us.