Secret Service to Oversee Inauguration

WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department designated President Bush (news - web sites)'s inauguration a national security special event, which makes the ceremony's high-profile gatherings eligible for federal money and heightened security overseen by the Secret Service.

The department said Monday the Secret Service would handle protection for the Jan. 20 swearing-in at the Capitol, the inaugural parade along Pennsylvania Ave. and the inaugural balls.

Since April, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has said the al-Qaida network has an interest in disrupting U.S. democracy. He said the threat could extend to the inauguration and beyond.

Under a 1998 directive signed by President Clinton (news - web sites), events merit the special security designation when they are considered to be of significant national importance. Federal counterterror resources, led by Secret Service, are provided to protect such gatherings.

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more than Bush already has?

What democracy?

Count every vote.Thats a start!

How can this be?!

/sarcasm

Believe me, DC is going to get ugly. It was ugly last time. And * has pissed off a lot more people since then, no matter what the voting results supposedly show.

and leave Cheney standing in the middle of the street to face the protestors?

I wish they could hold their presidency in an undisclosed location

...Have a celebration and nobody attends.

I remember the 3 Musketeers movie (Michael York, Raquel Welch) - scene where the Cardinal (Charlton Heston) is riding thru the streets of Paris, and the crowd had to be paid by soldiers to cheer him.

That's what Bush has turned Al-Queda into.