Question about Biden rental income shut down

There apparently will be no comment from the White House on a report from the Washington Times that revealed the U.S. Secret Service is not just protecting Vice President Joe Biden, it's paying him $2,200 a month rent.

Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, and the second-most senior reporter on the beat, traveled to today's daily news briefing, led by press secretary Jay Carney, to ask the following:

"Does the president believe that the Secret Service agents who protect the vice president should have to pay him $2,200 a month in rental of a Biden cottage?"

However, Carney did not allow the question to be asked. Instead, he allowed six questions from ABC, five from CBS and the Wall Street Journal and four from NBC, Bloomberg and Reuters.

According to the Washington Times report, since April, the Secret Service has paid Biden more than $13,000 to use a rental cottage adjacent to Biden's waterfront home in a Wilmington, Del., suburb.

Biden owns the cottage. The report said the federal documents call Biden a "vendor" and reveal that he could be paid up to $66,000 by the time the government contract expires in the fall of 2013.

A Secret Service spokesman told the newspaper the location provides a level of security that could not be obtained with other arrangements.

Tax watchdog Leslie Paige of the Citizens Against Government Waste told the Times, "He should be afforded every single protection available to him and his family, as should every vice president and president. But this arrangement seems bizarre to me. You'd think the vice president, who shepherded the deficit committee, would think twice about charging the Secret Service rent. Why would he need the money? I don't get it."

Ask President Obama your own question.