[Hot Tabasco]

Being a SService agent, just like being a cop or a soldier or a priest, doesn’t make one immune to sin, stupidity and senseless behaviour.

It should, that's why these individuals are hand picked to protect the president of the U.S. It's one thing to expose one's self to contracting crabs or STD's via this alleged behavior as a businessman or tourist is likely to do but it's a totally different story when these individuals allow themselves to become susceptible to intelligence blackmail by foreign parties due to their actions.

[spetznaz]

It should from a theoretical perspective, but it doesn't necessarily mean it will be the case consistently. A cop, for example, should be an upstanding member of society who recognises the power AND responsibility that comes with his badge and his gun. Most cops act responsibly and within the mandate of the law, but some think they are beyond the law. Just because something should be doesn't mean that it is. There are a good number of examples, looking at the world of intelligence and espionage, where people who should have known better are trapped and tricked using stratagems that should never have had any chance of getting them. For instance, it is pure folly for a Western agent/diplomat/ambassador to fall for the old-and-tired honeytrap ruse. It should be unthinkable to get trapped by some pretty stranger, yet there are those who still fall prey to some foreign woman's thighs.

Anyways, my point in the original post was not that it is ok for agents to be picking up prostitutes (both from a health perspective, an optics and pr perspective, and a national security perspective just in case the 'prostitute' is more than that). My point was that it is myopic for a poster to say the story is 'false' because he/she doesn't believe a Secret Service agent can do such a thing. I was saying as long as the posts are held by humans, in a sample size there will always be those who should have known better but did otherwise. Even with the best selection processes it is difficult to assure, always, a given outcome (although some, like Tier One services like DEVGRU, CAG and the FBI's HRT, come exceedingly close). In most cases, whether it be priests, cops, soldiers - or SS agents -, there will always be that stupid few who think they can get away with something. Saying a story is false because 'x' can't do 'y' was my target during my first post.