* The State Department revealed it is paying $2million a month for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
* In addition, they are spending $175,000 on former Iran envoy Brian Hook and an undisclosed amount on John Bolton
* All three men are under 'serious and credible' threats from Iran after leading Trump's campaign to leave the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal
* The Biden Administration is now trying to negotiate back into the deal
* The men's protection order is up for expiration again in May and it is expected to be extended by June
The State Department says its paying more than $2million per month to provide 24-hour security to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and another $175,000 for another 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 $13.1million.
The report, dated February 14 and marked 'sensitive but unclassified,' was obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday.
It is costing the department roughly $2million a month to protect Pompeo and an additional $175,000 for Hook, according to the Washington Examiner.
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Update #1: Security for Pompeo costing $2 million per month amid threats from Iran: report (The Hill)
Update #2: Mike Pompeo and an ex-aide face 'serious and credible' threats from Iran, officials say. The US pays over $2 million a month to protect them. (Insider)
WNU Editor:I am sure former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Iran envoy Brian Hook, and john Bolton are not the only ones who are under protection.
8 comments:
Smells like they want to cancel the protections of former administration officials.
Well, when the Trump/Pompeo ticket wins in 2024, the costs will just meld into the general protection budget That budget that goes to pay the USSS to shield the like of Peliso and Shcmuer, et al.
That's a great way to wreck an economy. Piss off half the World and then spent unknown sums on protection money :D
Drop the protection on Bolton. He loves a fight.
Took the words out of my mouth. Trump was foolish for hiring him.
It's iran, couple of boy scouts for $50 a week would be ample
Do us all favor Iran. I wish you the best of luck.
They won't be missed.
The hatred of the Ayatollahs precedes Trump by decades. Whatever we gave them, they had it coming.
If the US did not exist the Iranians would need weapons, lots of weapons. They would need so many weapons to protect themselves form all the Arabs and other people they pissed off.
Iran funds Hezbollah and in part Hezbollah funds itself running drugs into the US. Of course the drug trade kills many people of different political stripes. The drug trade also funds the deforestation of the the Amazon.
Liberals or Democrats care so much about the rainforest and then they go and blissfully fund its destruction.
Typical libtard demoncraps
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