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Cheney Could Keep Security
Detail
Christopher Lee
Washington
Post
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The man code-named "Angler" by the Secret Service will
probably continue to receive the agency's protection long after
he leaves office next year.
The Secret Service is preparing to provide Vice President Cheney
with agents, transportation, advance work and other security-related
trappings of executive power for six months after the Bush administration
packs up and moves out in January, the agency's director, Mark
Sullivan, told Congress last week. The expected cost: $4 million.
Although presidents and their spouses are entitled to Secret
Service protection long after they depart the White House, federal
law authorizes protective services for the vice president and
his immediate family only during his time in office. Extending
Cheney's detail would require a directive from the president or
a joint resolution of Congress.
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"We believe that it's a pretty safe bet with the threat
environment we face today that Vice President Cheney will be afforded
Secret Service protection upon his departure," Sullivan told
the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security last
week.
Experts say such precautions make sense. The United States is
at war abroad and faces the persistent threat of terrorism at
home. Cheney, a principal architect of the administration's foreign
and national security policies, has been an unusually high-profile
No. 2 -- and would remain a target long after his term.
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