I thought former presidents had Secret Service protection the rest of their lives, or has that changed?
See above post. They get it for only 10 years, so Bush still has it; however, I wonder if this means that they would be obligated to provide the heavy security for him that he would have on an official visit, or simply the security they provide him on a daily basis.
In any case, no more news has appeared about this on my state board, so possibly the whole thing was a mistake and I shouldn’t have posted without waiting for confirmation.