Posted on 12/29/2015 1:33:38 PM PST by jazusamo
Full title: Judicial Watch: Secret Service Expenses for Obama's 2013 Hawaii Christmas Vacation Cost Taxpayers $316,698.03, Taxpayers Paid Over $8 Million for 17-Day Vacation
(Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that it recently received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expenses bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33. The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch.
The heavily redacted records were obtained on December 28 in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:
The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.
Saying he was " eager to skip town " Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As reported by The Washington Post:
The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state's most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.
For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year's in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends -- and, yes, perfecting his golf game.
In March 2014,Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for this Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).
This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama's security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.
Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:15-cv-01983)).
The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.
"It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama's luxury Christmas vacation," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama's 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060. It is nice to know that Obama's 'tradition' of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers."
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Livin’ large on da man!
It seems that not only as Obama doubled the US debt in less than 8 years, but he has probably doubled the money spent on vacations by every president prior to him. A day of reckoning is coming.
People like Obama never get a reckoning> There is no justice in this World.
Someone arrest this grifter family and exile them!
O’Bola is a bastard-coated bastard with bastard filling.
I couldn’t hate him more than I already do.
Yes, the day of reckoning is coming for him and I’d hate to be him when it happens.
WOW!!!!!
You can get a full sized SUV in Hawaii today for about $1,000 a week (Priceline). How many cars did they get for $91K??
He’s evil, through and through.
The ruling elite lives high off the hog and scorns us. The Constitution of this country foresaw an executive, not a monarch. A failure.
Cabana Girls?
Some accommodations, I'll bet.
He is, technically speaking, truly a bastard.
About half of what it cost to house an inmate terrorist at Gitmo.
I’m sure the MSM will point that out.
“Someone arrest this grifter family and exile them!”
Let them spend a couple of weeks vacation in Kenya, bunking in with Barry’s half-brother who lives in the hut.
Yeah, I remember my last 17 day, tax payer funded, vacation.
Wait, I’ve never had either.
A day of reckoning may very well be in store for any nation who’d elect the likes of Obama.
God, I hate public schools.
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