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Yeah, as long as you're on vacation. These guys? Not so much:

"Three small explosions were reported in Colombia before the summit – two on an empty area of land near Cartagena's bus station and one near the US embassy in the capital, Bogota. Officials said there were no injuries or damage."

Not so secret servicing....

This.

Wait, prostitution is legal there? Have you guys seen Columbian women??? Need to look up airfare stat.

Now you know why they're "Secret."

Fellas, pay up, will ya?

Ronald Kessler, a former Post reporter and author of a book on the Secret Service, told CNN the scandal erupted when one of the agents "did not pay one of the prostitutes, and she complained to the police."

For who? Other members of the advance team? These guys were an advance detail, not part of the President's Detail - they were likely already stationed abroad or in the Southern US. The White House Admin Detail coordinates field agents to handle advance - the agents you see (and don't see) with the President are with him all the time and don't do advance work. Not that any of this is directly related to the thread but headline reading would give the impression these were guys around the White House all the time.

These guys were idiots. They not only found some hookers, they refused to pay at least one and the independent businesswoman went to the police.

"A source in the Secret Service tells CBS News that one or more of the officers were involved with prostitutes and that there was a dispute over payment. One prostitute went to the police, who notified the State Department. The agents stayed at Hotel Caribe, where the international press is staying."

Sad.

A senior Secret Service agent who was being investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week in Washington, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

Rafael Prieto, a married father assigned to the security detail for President Barack Obama, had acknowledged to U.S. investigators that he had been having an affair for years with a woman from Mexico....

Secret Service rules require that employees with a security clearance notify the agency about any relationship with a foreign citizen to ensure that the person is not a risk to national security. There is no evidence that Prieto's relationship posed any security threat. Failing to disclose such a relationship would be a violation of the agency's administrative rules, not a crime.