Report: 65 Secret Service Agents on Hand for Hillary Clinton's Paid Speech

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Not nice to tax payers.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-65-secret-service-agents-hand-hillary-clintons-paid-speech-canada_824237.html

[HOLLYWOOD]

Hitler/Stalin/Mao/Pot/Pinochet had dozens of body guards... and they needed them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act)too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act).

Hey, if you did nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear, right? Isn't that what the 'State' preaches everyday?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act)

The Former Presidents Act (known also as FPA) (3 U.S.C. § 102) is a 1958 federal law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law) that provides several lifetime benefits to former presidents of the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States)

Before 1958, the U.S. federal government provided no pension or other retirement benefits to former United States presidents. Andrew Carnegie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie) offered to endow a US$25,000 annual pension for former Chief Executives in 1912, but congressmen questioned the propriety of such a private pension. Legislation introduced that year to establish a presidential pension failed. In 1955, former President Harry S. Truman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman)'s limited financial resources for an office staff prompted legislation to provide benefits to former presidents.

When the Former Presidents Act took effect, there were two living former presidents: Herbert Hoover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover) and Truman. Dwight D. Eisenhower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) was the first president to fall under the act upon leaving office.

The original act provided for lifetime Secret Service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service) for former presidents. In 1997, it was reduced to 10 years for presidents taking office after 1997. The 1997 amendment was reverted by the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-257).[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act#cite_note-2) All living former presidents and their spouses are now entitled to receive lifetime Secret Service protection.


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Sponor: Congressman Trey Gowdy

Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 (2013; 112th Congress H.R. 6620) - GovTrack.us (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6620)

As a cost savings, Congress had ended lifetime security details for former presidents, cutting off Secret Service protection 10 years after a president leaves office. But in the post-9/11 world Congress decided that former chief executives may still be vulnerable and need protection.
President Obama has now signed the repeal. HR. 6620, the “Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012,” also gives Secret Service protection to former First Ladies and guarantees agents will continue to shadow children of former Presidents until they become 16 years of age.



Of course, families can decline protection. When President George Herbert Walker Bush walked away from the inaugural ceremonies of his successor Bill Clinton, his wife Barbara Bush said farewell to her agents on the Capitol steps, and moved back to Texas without them.

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I'm inclined to think that people who are entitled to Secret Service protection should be given an annual budget. When the budget is exhausted, either stop making speeches, or pay for the protection. You can do whatever you can afford.

Or, charge a contingency fee: 50% of speaking fees, whether it's paid to you or some phoney nonprofit. If it costs the taxpayer, then pay for the service.

Or, give the speech in a clearly defined area that can be cleared and covered by a very limited detail.

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Or, give the speech in a clearly defined area that can be cleared and covered by a very limited detail.

EM.

Something like this (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?467324-U-S-official-Netanyahu-spat-in-our-face-There-ll-be-a-price&p=5762654&viewfull=1#post5762654) perhaps.

[DamianTV]

65? Good grief, I cant even get 65 cents, let alone one full blown Secret Service Agent to cover my ass! And I think I'd need it a lot more than she does. All of us here will.

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But security of her emails is another story.

Hillary Clinton ran own email servers from home (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?470155-Hillary-Clinton-ran-own-email-servers-from-home&)

[Ronin Truth]

As an ex FLOTUS she gets SS protection for life.