Bush has Doubled Admin's Secret Service Protection; Readies 103 Full-Time Agents for his Retirement.

[babylonsister]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/215

Bush has Doubled Admin's Secret Service Protection; Readies 103 Full-Time Agents for his Retirement. Soldiers still Lack Armor
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 2:10pm. Analysis

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

The 2008 campaign will require more Secret Service resources than expected, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Related article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18910682/
The article also brings up some interesting highlights on Secret Service coverage for the Bush administration:

(T)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).

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Numbers don't matter if the SS isn't ready to take a bullet for * during retirement.

[TygrBright]

15. Except that they are ready to do so.

However evil and incompetent the schmuck they're assigned to guard, the Secret Service are themselves consummate professionals whose underlying justification for existence is simple:

To prevent assassination from becoming a common tool of public policy in the United States.

To do that, they'll take a bullet for the worst President in US history, even after he's retired.

The sad thing is not that taxpayer dollars are being "wasted" on 103 agents to secure * during retirement, the sad thing is that * has made himself so hated that 103 agents are NECESSARY to do so.

The only thing worse than having so many people guarding our top officials is what things would be like if those officials weren't guarded and assassination came to be seen as a plausible tool for effecting political change.

Anyone who thinks that might be alright under "some" circumstances has never seen what happens when that's the case.

adamantly,
Bright

[no_hypocrisy]

16. There's gotta be at least one time they have their doubts . . .

[NightWatcher]

2. good

he knows that he's a schmuck and that he needs an army to protect him. Good

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yes. He knows he is hated at home and abroad.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. He went AWOL because he was a coward.

He will always be a coward.

[MUAD_DIB]

10. All tyrants are cowards.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Leibstandarte regiment of the Secret Service?

The DumbyaFuhrer's Elite Bodyguard...

I guess this means he won't be having all those beers with the freepers.

[Canuckistanian]

18. Or the Praetorian Guard

All the big emperors had one.

[MUAD_DIB]

20. Or: Republican Guard. ; D

[Double T]

4. Looks like our beloved president is a 'little' paranoid...........

TOO!!

[AlCzervik]

8. in his case this one time i don't think so. He won't be able to anywhere

without heavy security, I bet Cheney will end with more.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Will we provide secret service "protection" to the criminal in Paraguay?

[IChing]

14. I wondered the same thing myself.

Would Reverend Moon's place be protected also because his land borders theirs?

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Do you think it'll be hard to find SS agents willing to go to Paraguay?

[Pastiche423]

23. Don't know about that

But I've heard there is already a military base there.

[notadmblnd]

9. I wonder what he's planning to do that will make him more hated than he already is..

that he'll need more protection out of office than in?

[babylonsister]

11. Is that even possible? nt

[loyalkydem]

12. Well

he's a coward, what do you think :)

[kimmerspixelated]

21. I try not to go there,

because this madman is capable of so much more destruction, it boggles the mind, what he could do!

[cureautismnow]

17. Maybe JFK's former SS detail could provide assistance.

Assuming any of them are still around.

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. Paranoid are we?

:rofl::rofl:

[StarryNite]

22. And yet he stands there and says

more people are going to die in his war. Where the fuck does he get off thinking his life is more valuable than somebody else's? I hate that lowlife piece of shit!

[Bluebear]

24. 103 personal, full-time Secret Service agents after he's retired?

How much will THAT shit cost us?