re: #96 What, me worry?

This makes me really cranky. I have some questions.

Why should anyone believe the sordid details told by these women who would do anything, including sleeping with men, for money? How much did the TODAY show (and there were others) pay the prostitutes to give their tell-all story? And how brutal were the brutes who paid them $800? They weren’t complaining about it then. How much does $800 American buy in Columbia? A hellofa lot. How much more can they get if they “tell their stories” and who is going to say it isn’t true?

What the Secret Service did is despicable. There’s no doubt about that. It’s embarrassing to the president, to put it lightly, and to the U.S. as a whole. These guys were boneheads who jeopardized many reputations just to get a little sumfin sumfin.

But if you think I’m going to believe any word that comes out of a hooker’s mouth, I’m not.

That all said, this is what concers me.

A woman identifying herself as the Colombian prostitute at the center of a scandal involving U.S. Secret Service agents spoke publicly about the incident for the first time on Friday, telling a Colombian radio network that, had she been a terrorist, she could have easily pried loose details of President Barack Obama’s planned visit to Cartagena from the liquored-up agents.

“At that moment, if I had wanted to, or if I had been part of one of those terrorist groups, it’s obvious I would have been able to get everything,” the woman, Dania Londono Suarez, told Caracol Radio.

As embarrassing as this is, I’m glad they got caught. The security of our president and politicians shouldn’t be handled lightly.