Bush first ex-prez to face limit on Secret Service protection…Bush will be the first president not to benefit from one former lifetime benefit: Secret Service protection. “He’ll be the first one to receive it for 10 years,” said Malcolm Wiley, Secret Service spokesman. Congress changed the law in the 1990s so that any president elected [...]

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John Byrne
“A day after President Bush was nearly struck in the head by flying footwear at a Baghdad news conference, U.S. Secret Service officials faced questions Monday about how an Iraqi television reporter was able to hurl not one but two shoes at the president without the agents responsible for protecting him being able to [...]

Shoe-gate continues …“There doesn’t appear to be any over-reaction” on the part of American agents, Donovan says, confirming the Secret Service agents who poured into the room did not draw their weapons… At the press conference, the head of the president’s security detail scrambled to the lectern but not until the second shoe [...]

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I caught this yesterday. (Should I be ashamed that it made my day? I don’t think so. I’m amazed someone hasn’t done it before!)
Several other bloggers have mentioned it already but what the heck, I have to admit [...]

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Crooks and Liars by David Neiwert
All of the talk about the special Newsweek report describing the backstage events in this year’s presidential campaign has focused on various revelations about Sarah Palin’s astonishing lack of knowledge about global and national affairs, as well as her spending sprees.

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May 5, 2008
by Aidan Monaghan
The following is a response from the U.S. Secret Service to a Freedom of Information Act request for the arrival time of U.S. vice president Richard Cheney at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) on September 11, 2001, as well as the names of all those granted entry there that day.

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John Aravosis (DC)
A very weird story out of Texas that a number of readers have sent me. I don’t think that the Secret Service was hoping to harm Obama, but it’s just downright bizarre that they’d say “yeah, the lines are too long to get into the Obama speech, let’s just stop searching people for [...]