WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill granting lifetime Secret Service protection to former presidents and their wives.

 

The measure Obama signed Thursday applies to presidents elected after Jan. 1, 1997, specifically Obama and former President George W. Bush. It reverses a 1994 law that ended Secret Service protection 10 years after a president leaves office. Under that law, the Homeland Security secretary could extend such protection on a temporary basis.

A sponsor of the bill, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, says increased terrorist threats and the greater mobility and youth of former presidents made the change necessary.

 

The new law also authorizes Secret Service protection for the children of former presidents until they turn 16.

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The bill is H.R. 6620.

 

 

 

This man is despicable on every level. As a leader and as a human being. I guess he figures that after he is done remolding the country the Secret Service will be the only ones around with guns.

 

Even by politican standards the man is loathsome. I guess he included W so as not to look like a complete dick, but that is a little thin if you ask me.

I am sure the agents protecting him will all comply with all of the new federal bills and will protect him with bolt action rifles

Couldn't he jus make a " gun free zone" around him?.........

lmao of course he did