Does Secret Service Follow Kids To School

(AP)

Four days before leaving function, President Bush signed a directive authorizing the Secret Service to provide a flow of extended protection for his daughters Jenna and Barbara.

Terminal week, the Service mistakenly said that President Obama had signed an Executive Social club on behalf of his predecessor's daughters.

Under the law, the adult children of an American President lose their Secret Service protection when their father leaves function.

But following the lead of Bill Clinton, who authorized an extended period of coverage for girl Chelsea, Mr. Bush made the same provision for his daughters. He signed a presidential directive on January 16, 2009. The Secret Service requested that the length of the additional protection not be disclosed.

A Secret Service spokesman admits getting it wrong last week when he told the Washington Post that Mr. Obama signed an Executive Lodge authorizing extended protection for the Bush-league daughters.

The issue came upward when it was learned that a van used by the Secret Service detail assigned to Jenna, had been towed past Baltimore Police because information technology had accumulated six unpaid parking tickets.

CBS News has learned that the Secret Service as well provided about a calendar month'southward additional protection to quondam Homeland Security Secretarial assistant Michael Chertoff.

By law, former President Bush receives government protection for ten years. Former Vice President Dick Cheney gets it for half-dozen months after leaving office.

Note: CBS News state department reporter Charles Wolfson reports that erstwhile Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice besides received some extended protection from the State Department's bureau of diplomatic security afterward she left office. It is not known how long the protection lasted or if it nonetheless in effect. Withal, information technology should be noted that this is not unprecedented as quondam Secretary of State Madeline Albright also received similar extended protection for approximately 6 months later she left office.