As ridiculous as this thread is, I feel it necessary to enter the fray once more to point out something that I thought somebody else would have come up wit by now. For all those who are now accepting the idea that this cost 1-2 million, why? There has been discussion about the costs of transporting an advance team, paying for hotels and food, flights and setting up a command centre. Guess what? The Secret Service has a permanent field office in NYC (
http://secretservice.tpaq.treasury.g..._offices.shtml), so why would they send a whole team from WAS? Maybe nobody, maybe just one of the security supervisors to oversee the preparations?.
Thus, the biggest alleged source of extra expenditure is thrown into doubt. I personally doubt that it cost any more than 100K 'extra' to the taxpayers including all extra costs associated with doing something in NYC.
As has been pointed out previously, there's only bad optics to this for people who don't think clearly about things.
That's my 2 Million Cents worth.