Most, if not all, cabinet secretaries, as well as many assistant, deputy and deputy assistant undersecretaries, have security assigned to them from their agencies intelligence or security arm. And it goes down to even lower levels. I daresay that there are SES and GS-18s with guards. Military flag officers (generals and admirals) have security. I’ve driven a 3 star around and was armed, as was he. As do the heads of independent agencies and their top people. I’m sure we spend many billions of dollars on such security every year. A far cry from the 19th Century when no one in the Federal government really had bodyguards.
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Thanks.
Did Karl Rove have SS protection?