Secret Service and Prostitutes?

Discussion in 'Off Topic [BG]' started by Dr. Cheese, Apr 16, 2012.

  1. Dr. Cheese

    Dr. Cheese Gold Supporting Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Metro St. Louis
    What do guys think about the Secret Service prostitute scandal while the POTUS was in Cartegena, Colombia? I think it is a matter of security and law enforcement, not politics, if the mods don't think this appropriate, please shut this down.
     
  2. MIJ-VI

    MIJ-VI Inactive Supporting Member

    Jan 12, 2009
    I guess they forgot who was supposed to run beside the car.
     
  3. I disdain the term POTUS. Prez has less letters
     
  4. Relic

    Relic Cow are you?

    Sep 12, 2006
    Robbinsville, NJ
    I would bet my bottom dollar that this is nothing unusual at all. Only thing out of the ordinary is that they got caught.
    Apparently the prostitutes spent the night but the rules are that they have to be gone by 7 am otherwise another day is charged. Since they went past 7, the hotel demanded that they pay, the prostitutes (or prostitute, I think it was just one at this point), then demanded that the agents pay for that extra day. They refused and hilarity ensued.
    had they not refused...? We'd never know. Bet it goes on all the time.
     
  5. bassinplace

    bassinplace

    Dec 1, 2008
    Yep. Isn't that the primary reason for becoming a politician in the first place? :smug:
     
  6. MatticusMania

    MatticusMania LANA! HE REMEMBERS ME!

    Sep 10, 2008
    Pomona, SoCal
    Essentially. First you get the money, then you get the power, and then you get the pros.
     
  7. Why does this alway's turn into news? ... because people are entertained from it

    "Dude gets caught paying for nookie!"

    personally I don't care to hear about it... live and let live...
     
  8. Dr. Cheese

    Dr. Cheese Gold Supporting Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Metro St. Louis
    The hotel did its job. Prostitution is legal in Cartegena.
     
  9. Dr. Cheese

    Dr. Cheese Gold Supporting Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Metro St. Louis
    This was a pretty bad breech of security. Prostitutes were in the president's security zone before he got there and it could have been compromised.
     
  10. michael_atw

    michael_atw

    Feb 28, 2009
    Jamestown, NY
    The media makes it's own stories. Even after the public has had their "fill", the media will continue to drum it.
     
  11. hdracer

    hdracer

    Feb 15, 2009
    Elk River, MN.
    My only concern is did they pay for the woman with their own money or did the use tax payer money?

    If it was like the GSA and they used tax dollars I'm mad. If anyone is going to spend my money on hookers it is going to be me!
     
  12. guy n. cognito

    guy n. cognito Secret Agent Member

    Dec 28, 2005
    Nashville, TN
    Except when an agent allows a non-authorized person in a clean area. Then it puts American lives at risk, and that is not acceptable.
     
  13. Relic

    Relic Cow are you?

    Sep 12, 2006
    Robbinsville, NJ
    Yes, I know. This is why the agents were caught basically.

    Pretty scary to think that a local hotel inadvertently caught a potential security breech.
     
  14. I saw this on the nightly news, and I was amazed at how the reporter was going psycho about how the SS has sensitive information that terrorists could have gotten a hold of. First of all, these prostitutes are most likely unilingual Spanish speakers with a very low level of education, so it's not like they would have understood any of it. Secondly, these girls probably only care about two things, money being one of them. So I'm not losing any sleep over this.
     
  15. kbraker510

    kbraker510 Supporting Member

    Dec 8, 2008
    i bet Bill Clinton started it or even JFK..horndogs
     
  16. pacojas

    pacojas "FYYA BUN"

    Oct 11, 2009
    MEXICANADAMERICA
    you never pay a hooker before sex,..

    you pay them to leave!:bag:
     
  17. Pacman

    Pacman Layin' Down Time Staff Member Gold Supporting Member

    Apr 1, 2000
    Omaha, Nebraska
    Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars, DR Strings, Aguilar Amplification
    The issue is that Human Trafficking is a concern for the US Gov, and hiring a prostitute violates not only the SS Code of Conduct, but the UCMJ for the "unnamed unit" members with "special skills" who were there in support of the operation. (I guess the SS is running thin on snipers?)
     
  18. Jhengsman

    Jhengsman

    Oct 17, 2007
    Los Angeles, CA
    I had not heard that, I was thinking going in that they would be part of the Marine One squadron.
     
  19. 1958Bassman

    1958Bassman

    Oct 20, 2007
    Is there any way I can choose how I want my tax refund?

    "I'd like that one and here's a list of what I want her to do"
     
  20. Even the Secret Service needs servicing every once in a while.