Thursday, December 19, 2013

Obama spends $11m attending Mandela funeral -- not including flight there and back...

VIP Hotel and Vehicles for Mandela Funeral Trip More Than $11M - Jeryl Bier/Weekly Standard

It is unclear from the documents if the lodging and transportation contracts covered just the president and his support staff, or if it included George W. Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other current and former government officials. The transportation contract included passenger vehicles, SUVs, vans, buses, pickup trucks, box trucks, and "larger capacity vehicles"