Typically, American taxpayers pay for six months of Secret Service protection for former vice presidents.
But Dick Cheney, afraid for his safety, requested an extension of that protection and Barack Obama granted his request, writes the New York Daily News.
Now, Cheney will have at least another six months of protection paid by the American taxpayers.
If Obama did not approve Cheney's request, "he would have been forced to hire his own security agents or go without."
Poor Dick, he probably created many enemies over the years and does not have enough money to pay for his security.
American taxpayers are paying for lots of unnecessary crap anyway, so why not spend some more money on Dick and his safety?!?
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Hes probably afraid he will be picked up by a foreign country and put on trial for his war crimes.
He is a multi-millionaire, isn't he? I thought he made a ton of money in business before being VP.
Cheney is, I must add, one sick and perverted excuse for a human being. I just watched the film 'Rendition', in which an Egyption-born U.S. citizen is tortured mercilessly on some very circumstantial evidence while his very pregnant wife tries to track down his whereabouts. Everyone must see this film and become aware that THOUSANDS of people have been and are still being tortured and murdered due to Bush and Cheney's orders.
Cheney and all of the neocons will die soon, of old age sadly, rather than at the end of a hangman's noose. We must hope that their children did not inherit the mutant genes that create such a mindset as these war profiteers have exhibited.
I'm afraid Cheney's "mutant genes" may be around in US politics in the future. His daughter recently said she's thinking about running for office... scary if she's like daddy Dick.
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Face it, Bad A guy, you made the only idiotic comment here so far.
He should be treated like every other ex-vice presidrnt. He should pay for his own protection.
But who, a sensible person might inquire would want to guard a steaming pile of cowflop such as Dick Cheney? Well, probably the same mercenaries who continue to guard our occupation's forward guard, the U.S. illegal immigrants in Iraq.
For a very enlightening inside view of the Bush white house, read Paul O'Neill's story, 'The Price of Loyalty', by Ron Susskind.
A most revealing work by a brilliant journalist.