As I noted back on page one. Hey, man: I don’t need anybody to fight my fights! 
But wouldn’t this kind of thing leave the agents to some really damaging potential blackmail? Perhaps not “let us kill the President or else” kind of thing, but more like “tape him saying something classified or embarrassing and pass it on, or else”?
I think the very last person on Earth I would be tempted to blurt out secrets to is a Colombian hooker.
Would the SS fire an agent if the agent was married and had an affair? The blackmail potential is pretty much the same – the threat to destroy the home life.
For a single agent there is essentially no more risk with a hooker than with any other sex partner. They used to say that gays were a security rick because they could be blackmailed. Sure they could, because they’d get fired if were known they were gay. Take away that threat, and you take away the blackmail potential.
Well, the whole point is that you should be very, very wary of who do you let get close to you anyway, because, how are those people that approach you (or that you approach) vetted? Plus the advance team is NOT supposed to attract attention to themselves. One of the qualities you want in your security agents is excersizing good judgment and thinking with the upper head.
I can’t help but think that had they held back and waited until the Boss Man was safely on his way back to DC, and THEN *** afterward*** had a “mission accomplished, good job, boys” blowout party ***AND avoided making a scene *** by getting into a quarrel with a service provider over payment, it would have made fewer waves.
But loose lips sink ships… and now apparently so do tight fists – if as the old line says, what you pay for is for her to go away, then doggone it, pay her to go away quietly. And c’mon, if you are involved in that sort of pastime haven’t you ever heard, always, always negotiate a firm final price first? Really.
BTW, the Pley Club’s(*) website is down for having exceeded its bandwidth limit. 
I wonder if the owners will feel it’s worth paying some more for publicity’s sake or that it’s better to lie low until the end of the month…
(*“Pley” being the way that you’d render phonetically in Spanish the sound of the English word “play”)
They’re trying to paint it as a “The Buck Stops Here” kind of thing, so therefore it’s his fault.
They’re also trying to say that they did it because they don’t respect the office anymore, because he’s in it.
No, seriously.
So you’ve thought this through…?
And where do Nicaraguan ex-Contra Special Forces masseuses fall on your list?
(number 3 on mine …mmm…)
I’ve heard in a few places speculation that what really happened is that the agents are taking the fall for a situation gone wrong between higher ups and the hookers. The folks who have told me this haven’t said it was Obama, but- ya know- higher ups.
I’m wondering what the all-chick security squad that used to roll with Ghadaffi is up to now.
Palin was criticizing Obama’s leadership even though one of the agents fired had posted a pic of her on his facebook page and made a joke about checking her out while Bush was still president. Republicans are stupid.
“Oh God, that ass reminds me of the fact that we are not permitted within 20 yards of the President’s toilet while he defecates, which he does quite regularly after he gets up at six in the morning. That’s the time when our security detail changes by the way and the vents are really quite spacious. Now where did I sequester that banana?”
That was just the beginning.
According to this Washington Post story, three more agents were tossed out today, pending appeals of their punishment (if they choose to appeal).
Out of 12 agents “implicated”, 8 either were fired, resigned or were allowed to retire, two more cleared of “the most serious” charges" but will be reassigned (presumably off the presidential detail), one will be stripped of his security clearance, but might find other Federal employment. A final agent was cleared of wrongdoing, but will still face some unspecified form of administrative punishment (possibly for not ratting out his buddies?).
I can only hope these guys got the best sex of their lives. It was certainly the most expensive.
Uh, I meant that the hookers/pimps could say to the SS agents, “We have photos of you sleeping with a prostitute. Either you help us or we tell your family, bosses, and the American press.”
Yeah, plus if the Secret Service has a reputation for being a bunch of poon-hound partiers, host governments could set them up for a honey trap the next time they are in town. According to the Washington Post today, this kind of behavior was pretty common in the service, and it was only because the embassy got notified that it blew up. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/confidants-secret-service-agents-contend-misbehavior-on-trips-not-unprecedented/2012/04/24/gIQAJ5hZfT_story.html
Cnn.com has named the former agent who started the brouhaha when he disputed his bill for the night. He’s married (at least for the present) with kids and arguably old enough to know better.
Does anybody know why we need to send 12 SUVs full of these clowns to places that the POTUS visits? These presidential trips are getting absurd-when Obama went to Brazil, they had 19 planes to carry everybody-think of the carbon footprint!
It was embarrassing-what we are telling the host country is: “we don’t trust you and your security sucks”.
Which host countries’ security would *you *trust? Remember he’s your President too.
If it helps you calculate more objectively, picture him as a white Republican President.