Dios Mio! As the weekend unfolded, so did what will perhaps be known as the biggest scandal in the history of the United States Secret Service. While preparing for President Barack Obama’s arrival at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, 11 Secret Service agents allegedly brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms. Apparently, these US Federal agents had a different meaning in mind about what type of service they would be obtaining in “secret.”
Aside from the moral and legal issues that surround prostitution, additional issues are raised when those engaging in prostitution and other vices are US government officials on the taxpayers’ account. Further, prostitution and other vices are uniquely suited by to comprising the security structure of a government by means of blackmail and coercion.
Thailand is notorious for its sex tourism and is home to many international agencies and foreign government organizations. One can’t help but wonder about how many foreign government officials have traveled or worked and sampled the various red light activities of Bangkok’s infamous Patpong and Soi Cowboy Nightlife Districts (without a corresponding international news scandal)!
Keeping in line with the Secret Service’s “zero tolerance” policy on personal misconduct, the agents were quickly recalled and placed on administrative leave. We doubt that they will be re-assigned to Bangkok anytime soon.
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It’s just God’s way of letting us know that it is he who has a sheild over President Obama. These agents had no respect for themselves, their families and certainly none what so ever for OUR President. It’s really no telling how long these men with no candor of respect has put the the President or his family in harms way or who might be paying them do do so.