Budget Cuts Cause Cops To Cut W.'s Extra Security

The Dallas Morning News:

The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush.

In addition to the usual Secret Service protection, Dallas until last week had stationed one on-duty tactical officer per eight-hour shift on the street outside the president's home. The estimated cost of that service was $300,000 for about a year, according to police officials who asked that they not be named.

Read the whole story: The Dallas Morning News

Comments

[kiwiman122]

So much for the stimulus helping keep jobs. Even public jobs....wow.

why doesn't this "credible site" cover anything on casualties in Afghanistan/ what is actually important?

[Conservador-Rebelde]

They posted this "story" because they want as many people as they can to bIast Bush. They are only trying to get traffic by attracting Bush h8rs.

[CR46]

This was on every news station and radio in the red state of TX, the extra swat team is overk)ll and probably are in the way of the secret service protection he has anyway. Oh, by the way even though he lives on a public street it is NO LONGER a public street and is closed off at his request.

[MisterHands]

Nice try... but, no.

Republicans flock to The HufffPo

“H u ff.Po and [Talking Points Memo] really are the assignment editors for many in the Washington press corps — particularly the cables,” said Brian Rogers, who was a spokesman for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign. “That’s not just a Republican hack saying it — that’s speaking as a press guy fielding calls and e-mails daily from the MSM that start with, ‘Did you see this thing on H u ff.in gton P.ost?’ They were effective and they wasted a lot of our time.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html

[NavigatorOne]

Seems to me that this story is about responsible city decisions on where to spend money. The fact that President Bush 43 lives in a gated community with Secret Service protection and has the money to pay for any additional security he should need should mean that he shouldn't be getting a $300,000 handout from the city during tough times. Just as Michael Jackson's memorial service shouldn't have gotten a huge police support effort without recompense from those putting it on.

Most of us don't hate GWB per say. We hate the things he did and the results.

[Readbetweentheelevens]

If the country goes bankrupt, then where will our leaders live once they have served office? One might think about actually serving the country in order to forego problems like needing protection after your term.

[LemonMeringue]

1.4 million dead Iraqis
4,323 dead U.S. soldiers

10x that many wounded

That's a lot of blood on someone's hands.

[ThermoChemist]

As of June 24, 2009:
U.S. Monthly Spending in Iraq - $12 billion in 2008
Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq - $390,000

Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money
$549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors.
Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.

Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, RPGs and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)

Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings

Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion

Paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion

U.S. Troop Casualties - 4,318 US troops
Non-U.S. Troop Casualties - Total 316, with 179 from the UK
US Troops Wounded - 31,368
US Troops with Serious Mental Health Problems - 30%
US Military Helicopters Downed in Iraq - 71

Journalists killed - 139
Iraqi Police and Soldiers Killed - 9,094
Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated - Reported at 50,000 to over 100,000 (some estimates say over 600,000.)

Estimated Insurgency Strength, Nov 2003 - 15,000
Estimated Insurgency Strength, June 2007 - 70,000

Iraqis Displaced Inside Iraq, by Iraq War, as of May 2007 - 2,255,000

http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm

[maisnon55]

yes, it is, and he will pay..........not my problem as to how, but, he will pay........I am disappointed that Obama insisted on letting his crimes go.........they will catch up to him........for one thing, he is hiding out in Dallas, needs extra protection.........maybe some paranoia there.......our minds don't allow us to kill unneccessarily....they killed for money.......I happen to believe in reincarnation, but no matter what it ends up being, he WILL pay.............

[Bettysdad]

One thing I've always wondered about is the number of dead.

We are told how many die in battle, or similar, but never how many of the wounded eventually die.

I know of no hospital that has a 100% recovery rate.

If only 10% of the wounded have died, that doubles the number of dead.

How can this be checked?

[weatherwaxx]

I'm sure Mr. Bush has enough money to hire bodyguards. And only himself to blame that he needs them.

[FHTB]

So true...

[ObamAtomic]

He do not need it,Federal Government provide protection to him ,taxpayer money,
besides he have enough money to rent his personal army,or he can call his buddies at
Black KBR or whatever was the name of Chenney private company.

[Tena]

That's the best news I've heard since the pissant moved to Dallas. We've been paying for those extra cops, in addition to what we pay already for the Secret Service through income taxes.

I don't know why he didn't stay in Crawford and give that Lieberry to Baylor, which was begging for it.

[CLASSWARWELOST]

I hope you recieve the Karma you deserve.

[BlackDynamite]

Getcha' shoes ready, Dallas!

[lobear00]

Does the government really think that anyone thinks this guy has any thing worth protecting him for, he was just the puppet having his strings pulled by the puppetmaster. Do right by the nation and give him to poodle's to protect him, that's about all he is worth.

[maisnon55]

I imagine that many people in other countries would like him dead, that is HIS doing, however, he does not deserve to have this inappropriate TAX MONEY spent on him..................

[BambooHarvester]

Didn't ya just buy a 100,000 acre spread in Paraguay ?
~ Go to South America like a "good" war criminal !

[maisnon55]

I read somewhere that whilie we thought he was spending his time chopping wood in Crawford, a good old cowboy, he was 1-terrfied of horses and 2-spending his time in luxury in Paraguay........

[FHTB]

he was 1-terrfied of horses and 2-spending his time in luxury in Paraguay........


That's because the supposed Good Ol Boy is and always will be the Pampered Rich Boy from Greenwich, CT...

[NoSillyName]

He was a Faux Cowboy for sure.

[markhas]

good shot.

[markhas]

good shot!

[hankledeep]

Why does this not sadden me?

[wordvarc]

We'd save a bunch of money on security if w was housed in a cell at The Hague.

[Osusuki]

I'd say W was as safe as houses right now, because most of the people who really have it in for him don't want a hair on his head touched until he goes to that cell at The Hague.

[GeoLee]

Why does he need double duty....he does have secret Service, after all. We are all being billed for that.

[Wiseronenow]

He don't need no nuttin xtra police. That's gun-toting country, boy. Or, he can just call Cheney.

[Stilts9]

Georgey-boy is shaking in his Dallas boots tonight sans major securityization.