I could care less if the Secret Service wants to bang Colombian Prostitutes

Is this what passes for a scandal these days? Some members of the Secret Service went out drinking in Cartegena, Colombia and decided to bring a few hookers back to the hotel room? Am I supposed to be outraged by this? Indignant? Appalled? Sorry but I feel none of the above. In fact I’m amazed that this is an issue to begin with. I don’t expect the Secret Service to be Boy Scouts (they are trained to kill people you know) and if they want to blow off some steam with a night on the town and a little female companionship I have no moral qualms whatsoever.

Do I expect the people sworn to protect the President to behave like professionals? Of course I do, when they are on duty they should be sober and alert and dedicated to their jobs. They have a ton of responsibility protecting the leader of the free world and they should do so with the utmost diligence. However when they are off duty they can do whatever they please so long as they don’t break any laws or compromise national security. The last time I checked both alcohol and prostitution were perfectly legal in Colombia. Furthermore the night when this all happened the President was not even under their specific protection, he was still in Washington, D.C.

Is it possible that these very Colombian prostitutes were undercover agents for Al Qaeda or some nefarious government? Is there a chance that in the anticipation of the President’s visit to Colombia the Iranians decided to plant a bunch of female spies disguised as whores in various bordellos around Cartegena with the understanding that should they get picked up by the Secret Service they were supposed to spy and gather whatever national intelligence secrets were available. Anything is possible but it seems ridiculously farfetched that any of these women were in any position to glean any top-secret information.

The fact that this is an election year makes me rather suspicious of all the feigned moral outrage directed at the Secret Service and indirectly at the White House. Politicians are opportunists by nature and rarely pass up a chance to make the opposing party look bad. The argument that the President should have exercised more control over the people sworn to protect him is laughable. The fact of the matter is that the Secret Service have way more control over the President than vice-versa. The Secret Service controls where the President travels, who he can talk to, what devices he can use etc…. The only person with more leverage over the President than the Secret Service is Michelle Obama.  I don’t think anyone should resign over this incident nor should they have to testify to Congress over it.  Besides they have way more important things to do like keeping an eye on right wing nutjobs like Ted Nugent.

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