When is a Secret Not a Secret?

Hi Everyone,

By now, I'm sure you have all heard about the Secret Sevice scandal that happened in Cartagena, Mexico. The Secret Service agents that were involved are not assigned to protecting our President. These are a special group of agents that arrive way inadvance of the President's arrival. They are there to secure the locations that the President will visit. This includes securing and debugging the entire floor of the hotel where the President will stay. They take every precaution to insure the President's safety. So far there are at least 11 Secret Service agents and an unknown number of marines involved.

So how can Secret Service agents and some Marines think that hiring prostitutes is a good thing to do? They can't!!! Where were the supervisors? Two on site supervisors have already departed from the agency.There is no justification for their actions. You would think that being part of an elite force would mean that they had and used great common sense. Obviously, these agents and military personnel have absolutely no common sense at all! Duh!!! You know that they swear to protect the President, even to the point of putting their own lives on the line. I guess that hiring prositutes isn't considered detrimental to the mission they were on. Hmmmmmm.... let me think about that one. Not being an historian expert, I do believe that ever since there has been prostitution, prostitutes have been used to solicit info and secrets for a person, agency or government who hired them. Consequently, the actions of these people could have seriously jeopardized and put in harms way, our President and all those who traveled with them.

Even when you think that the lack of common sense in this story could not possibly stoop any lower, it does when this sorted tale gets even worse. According to multiple news outlets, when one of the prostitutes asked for her money, the guy tried to short change her and she would have none of that. She then made a commotion which got the hotel security and police involved. Oh come on! Wasn't it bad enough that he hired a prostitute, but to try to cheat her out of her money? Anyone knows that was not going to end nicely, with the prostitute just walking away. It really gets my goat when specialized personnel of the elite Secret Service and the Marines to boot, does something so egregious and down right just plain stupid that defies any resemblance of logic. Any personnel found to be involved in this, should loose their job and be banned from any other agency like the: CIA, FBI, ATF etc., etc., end of story!

Til next week.

Peter