A good & powerful leader knows the cost incurred by his requests, great and petty. Rudy obviously wasn’t concerned with this. He was willing to engage in extremely private activities that meant a lot of people would know and would be obligated to cover not just the activity and the principal, but also every action of everyone on a highly regulated and publicly monitored team. This bodes ill for a prospective leader of the free world.
Consider & compare Gore, guru of environmental protection, jetting his entire entourage around the world to attend the Bali summit (among hundreds of other such trips), thinking he can whisk away any contradictions by verbally authorizing “carbon credits”.
Contrast these yahoos with Bush, Regan, and others who were extremely aware & respectful of their security detail.
A good leader realizes he, too, is merely one of the people - entrusted with the care of others.
Having done the protection detail, I can agree that much can be learned about their actions in secret. I gained a tremendous respect for my protectee when I was able to witness and an entire, week, month, year with all of the good and bads lumped together. I saw the opportunities offered that were simply and politely rebuffed.
I saw it was show for others, but I had the honor to serve and witness a person of integrity. I had questions about Rudy over some of his social stands. He was a great Federal Prosecutor, but his moral compass points south in some areas and putting his security detail in that position speaks very poorly of his choice. These people are not royalty, and when they start to expect to be treated like such, then it is time to sit them down.