Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection

July 10, 2009 RSS Feed 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.

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Barack Obama,
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this man is a multi-millionaire and can afford his own security protection like the hated dick nixon did.He is on record as not caring one bit about what the american people thinks of him yet he has asked that these same taxpayers fund his protection.It is time for the american people to simple say to him, please go away and don"t hurt us anymore. Obama should man-up and suspend this protection.....a vast waste of taxpayers money.....where is the tea party on this issue?

c.hall of VA 5:51AM August 31, 2011

because the ordinary American is not a coward - he is a sheep !

Bagr Petrov of IL 2:19PM May 07, 2011

USA protect the cowerds and steals the ordinary American !

O'Bama of IL 2:16PM May 07, 2011

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