US Citizens pay $2M a month to protect Pompeo

[Rotadom]

The State Department says it's paying more than $2 million per month to provide 24-hour security to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a former top aide

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-pays-2m-month-protect-pompeo-aide-iran-83407630

Why?

The State Department says it’s paying more than $2 million per month to provide 24-hour security to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a former top aide, both of whom face “serious and credible” threats from Iran.

The department told Congress in a report that the cost of protecting Pompeo and former Iran envoy Brian Hook between August 2021 and February 2022 amounted to $13.1 million. The report, dated Feb. 14 and marked “sensitive but unclassified,” was obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday.

Pompeo and Hook led the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran and the report says U.S. intelligence assesses that the threats to them have remained constant since they left government and could intensify. The threats have persisted even as President Joe Biden's administration has been engaged in indirect negotiations with Iran over a U.S. return to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.

As a former secretary of state, Pompeo was automatically given 180 days of protection by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security after leaving office. But that protection has been repeatedly extended in 60-day increments by Secretary of State Antony Blinken due to “a serious and credible threat from a foreign power or agent of a foreign power arising from duties performed by former Secretary Pompeo while employed by the department,” the report said.

 

[pecksniff]

Oh, Bre'r Mullah! Please don't assassimate Massah Pompeo!

 

[ll74]

We should protect him and his aides. The cost metric is a dumb take.

 

[Champakian]

Why didn't you start this about what it costs (and has cost over the years)
to protect, oh, let us say, the Clinton Family or the Biden Family or
*gasp* the Obama Family (and their lavish vacations)?



[We really need an emoticon for "Rhetorical."]

 

[Champakian]

And let us keep in mind that we have AN ELECTED CONGRESS
that has the mindset of, a billion here, a billion there,
eventually you get to some real money...

 

[Chobham]

A "serious and credible" threat from Iran. Whilst the current admin. is trying to put the "deal" back in place with Russia as the broker? Anyone else see the disconnects here?

 

[Champakian]

In light of the rocket attack of yesterday/last night,
Iran is telling us directly what they think, not about
our ability, but our willingness to project strength...

 

[Chobham]

Making all the more likely that Israel is going to strike with all the aid the Saudi's can give them.

 

[Champakian]

The Little Democracy That Could.

We're the Big Democracy That Kant.

 

[Champakian]

If that were happen, it will be amusing to see the anti-semites among us
put their hatred of Jews on full display. It's almost time for the
Centennial Celebration of their last great pogrom.

 

[Chobham]

If that were happen, it will be amusing to see the anti-semites among us
put their hatred of Jews on full display. It's almost time for the
Centennial Celebration of their last great pogrom.

Led by the White House.

 

[Champakian]

Can't we all just go out for ice cream?
__________________________________________
Democrat born. Democrat bred. Libertarian led (by Democrats).

 

[Rotadom]

A "serious and credible" threat from Iran. Whilst the current admin. is trying to put the "deal" back in place with Russia as the broker? Anyone else see the disconnects here?

Yes, we are protecting Pompeo for no reason.

Why didn't you start this about what it costs (and has cost over the years)
to protect, oh, let us say, the Clinton Family or the Biden Family or
*gasp* the Obama Family (and their lavish vacations)?

Because I have free will and didn't want to. Please make as many threads about them as you like.

 

[Champakian]

*chuckle*

You have just those three stock replies in your Rolodex™.

 

[Champakian]

Why are you so focused on attacking politicians past?
Is it so that you are not protecting politicians present?

 

[Rotadom]

*chuckle*

You have just those three stock replies in your Rolodex™.

They pair well with you, "I'm not a Republican, but..." ad- Infinitum.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Eh... if the government didn't spend the money on that, it'd be on something else.

 

[Rotadom]

Why didn't you start this about what it costs (and has cost over the years)
to protect, oh, let us say, the Clinton Family or the Biden Family or
*gasp* the Obama Family (and their lavish vacations)?



[We really need an emoticon for "Rhetorical."]

Why are you so focused on attacking politicians past?

Why are you?

Is it so that you are not protecting politicians present?

False equivilancy.

 

[Rotadom]

Eh... if the government didn't spend the money on that, it'd be on something else.

Correct and probably something even more useless.

 

[Kindfarmer]

We should protect him and his aides. The cost metric is a dumb take.

hardly. He should be protected by living in a federal Supermax, until he no longer requires on his own.