Plosi One

Paul Tomblin writes:

The Speaker of the House is next in the line of succession after the VP.

Almost everyone in Washington is in the line of succession at some point.
That doesn't mean that extraordinarily lengths are justified to protect them.
Nobody even knows what the Speaker of the House does; the chances of anything
happening to her are nil.

In the United States, the security risks to a public figure are in direct
proportion to the media coverage that would result if anything happened to
them. Would-be assassins choose their targets based on the media attention
they're likely to receive if they succeed in killing them, not based on the
actual function or real-world importance of the target. This is why Paris
Hilton would probably be a more tempting target than the governors of most
States. This is also why the Vice President is pretty much a non-target (to
say nothing of the Speaker of the House).

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