Mary Cheney Difficult For Secret Service Agents: Book

Last month, the New York Post reported that a new book depicted President George W. Bush's daughters as a nightmare for Secret Service agents. Now another excerpt from Ronald Kessler's "In the President's Secret Service" suggests Dick Cheney's children were almost as difficult.

According to the book, Mary Cheney dismissed an agent for not chauffeuring her friends and complained about the quality of the vehicle assigned to her. But Mary Cheney herself told Kessler, "These stories are simply not true, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for the men and women of the Secret Service.

Kessler wrote of the Bush twins: "Jenna would purposely try to lose her protection by going through red lights or by jumping in her car without telling agents where she was going. As a result, in a total waste of manpower, the Secret Service kept her car under surveillance so agents could follow her."

The Post has more details from the book on presidents from Kennedy up to Obama.

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[Budokan]

The entire GOOP made life "difficult" for Americans during those eight years.

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[sippewissett]

Hard not to believe that a woman whose father thinks he is an absolute ruler wouldn't project like thoughts to his children. She wouldn't have been in the administration without him: entitlement. Let's remember this if she elects to run for an office. We don't need more Cheneyism in national politics.

[oldjerseygirl]

Barack Obama is one of the greatest leaders this country has ever had. He will be re-elected in 2012. Americans recognize the strength of his respectability all across the globe; no matter what obstacles are being thrown in his way. The naysayers will be choking on their hateful rhetoric in 2012.

[Skiwee]

Does anyone really care?

[OB08]

I hope we are not wasting tax $$'s on them now.

[SharpDressedMan]

I believe a Secret Service agent far more than a Cheney.

[VOTER]

Exactly right!

[brijit]

Not surprising that she's difficult. A few years ago she wrote a book and was doing the rounds to flog it. She turned up on Letterman's show where he did the standard interviewer thing asking her questions about the book's content for the benefit of the viewers who were , of course, potential buyers. She answered just about every question with some form of "Well, David, if you had READ my book, you'd KNOW that I said blah blah blah..." Quite possibly the single most obnoxious interviewee I've ever seen on any of these shows.

[4 Real]

She's just like her mother.

[NoSillyName]

And Liz(ard) is just like dear old dad.

[MajorKong]

All I saw was "Cheney.............Difficult"

[forza]

lol

[KnowzyRowzy]

funny!

[syd3]

All of the Cheneys tend to have the same kind of elitist temperament, do they not? By the way, although this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, are any of the readers aware that Cheney's wife and Scooter Libby both wrote and published pornography?

[rick91]

And, of course, Lynne's porno included lesbian coupling.

[PlanoBlue]

Nobody really cares about Ma.ry Che.ney's se*ual preference, only that for a long time her parents were in denial.

As for Lynne's writing, doubt that she made the NYT best-seller listing if you know what I mean.

[widdles]

Exactly what IS your point?? Other than being stoopid?

[JackNasty]

Lynn Cheney's lesbian girl-on-girl smut is available free on-line:

http://whitehouse.georgewbush.org/administration/sisters.asp

[docbets]

And a VP who died of a heart attack while having sex. Didn't read it; just heard about it.

[AndYourMomma2]

I can imagine that for a number of individuals in the Secret Service, having to follow Ms. Mary Cheney into the haunts of her choice could have been a little uncomfortable, but it would have been their duty to protect her at all times. Whether we liked her father or not, she needed to be protected. Lord knows who daddy would have acted against if she'd gotten hurt or worse.

[RegLib]

The Secret Service is an extraordinary group of people. They understand that they are protecting politicians who of necessity must occasionally wade into crowds and shake hands. And at the upper echelons they are protecting the politician's kids who want to lead "normal" lives. They adapt to all of it.

Yet for all their expertise, they cannot prevent the occasional John Hinckley or Squeaky Fromme from getting through. For anyone under the protection of the Secret Service to purposely make their job harder is beyond irresponsible.

[rick91]

Yes, I think her arrogant expectations indicate that Daddy's power was so great that his family members could demand whatever they wanted.

[RegLib]

It's a dopey citation, I guess, but there is an early episode of "The West Wing" that dealt with the fictional president's daughter trying to ditch her Secret Service detail. He explains to her that it's not a game, it's a national security issue. Should the president's child be abducted the nation no longer has a president making rational national security decisions; they have a frantic, terrified parent.

[ignoranceequalsfear]

How about how difficult she makes life for LGBTQ people who strive for equality, when she supports the Rebup party despite its assault against the rights and dignity of said communites.

She reeks of self-loathing!

[XLintLuvR]

Although it's not a party that's a refuge for the LGBT community, take away the social conservatives and the party's doing a little better than they were a decade ago with many prominent repubs including....(gasp) Dick Cheney softening their position and trying to keep away from the culture wars, specifically same sex marriage. It's those Bible thumping C Streeers that've been going out of their way.

[SassySafrine]

Come on! You don't know anything about her. Perhaps the self-loathing you smell is your own.

[gurukalehuru]

A homosexual who supports a political party which hates homosexuals is, by definition, self-loathing.

In the case of Mary Cheney, we know more than we ever wanted, or needed, to know. The term self-loathing is entirely appropriate.

[Cogs]

Is it possible to decline Secret Service protection?

[AndYourMomma2]

Unlikely for the families of standing office holders. The potential for having a wife or child used to blackmail an individual is too great.

[shelchak]

Good grief. The Mary Cheney incidents seem pretty tame, compared to Jenna's attempts to elude them, which sounded pretty annoying (and expensive, and immature). Sounds like this author is grasping for straws.

[jsgaetano]

Looks like the Cheney's didn't want the Secret Service around while they were pallin' around with terrorists and other criminals.