Exposing secrets in Secret Service
Lewis DiuguidPresident Barack Obama and others are right to call for a “thorough” and “rigorous” investigation of allegations of some Secret Service agents’ use of prostitutes ahead of the summit of Western Hemisphere leaders in Colombia.
About 11 Secret Service members are being investigated for allegedly taking several prostitutes to a hotel in Cartagena. The agents who were pinpointed were sent home ahead of Obama’s arrival for the meeting.
At issue is whether the use of prostitutes happened and whether Secret Service agents might have — with a wink and a nod — done similar untoward things in the past without being caught.
It is important to get to the bottom of this because having such secrets in the Secret Service could make the agency vulnerable to compromises with people who might want agents to look the other way on occasion. It also seriously undermines the trust the public has in the Secret Service, which guards the president and other dignitaries.
Aimee Patton
Overland Park
1 year, 2 months agoI don’t know…I’m curious to learn more about this. Is there ever a time when the secret service is “off the clock”? I’m not surprised that they were engaging in prostitution. They are outside the US and that stuff goes on all the time. That part isn’t the outrageous part. I guess the only big question is how vulnerable did it make our security?