Not-So-Secret Service

Yup..the Secretion Service scandal...

the old Secret Cervix.

Gotta be careful of any group with the initials "S.S."

So here's the deal;

There is no real story here.

Rather, the idea that all of the behavior 'outed' is

anything new under the sun, is a complete fiction.

This is the big leagues; Good Old Boys Network on

a grander scale. Big, tough, macho, Type A personality

dudes doing dangerous, stressful work, and the culture

is one rife with sex, drugs, violence, and instability

as a result. Just like it always has been.

The military, police, secret service agents, spies,

and others--even high profile big guns like sports

super stars and musicians and movie stars--they

get a surreal sense of reality doing what they do.

Guns, long days, pressure; need an outlet.

I'm not excusing it, but it definitely is the prevailing

mentality that the excesses used to unwind are in

fact an acceptable trade-off for the services provided

by these people. That's a cultural excuse;

"Boys will be boys."

And it's a tale as old as time.

The spin is that after such a hard job, the BMOC's

are pent up and need a release....that they deserve

to 'blow off some steam.' It's par for the course.

And there's an entire network of accommodations and

apologists in place to make sure that such regularly

occurring events like drunken orgies and drunk driving

accidents and assaults and prostitution use and

rapes and murders get swept under the rug, all

neat and tidy. (Tail hook scandal? Alan Schlinder murder?

Pat Tillman? Military rapes covered up? Ah hell...just go to

Military Corruption FMI)

No, the story here is that everyone is pretending

that this is new or news....that it is a political failure

on behalf of the President (hmmm...how convenient!)

and that this is something that only would have happened

on his watch.

Which tells everyone what they need to know

about the timing, the intention, and the level of

attention being focused on this matter.

The big deal here is discovery. Transparency

(well, sort of) in a world normally filled with

control and containment and pay-offs.

I know several politicans and CEOS who have

no problem creating a black eye for the country

and the office, as well as damaging the sense of security

for the President, if the outcome is that their man might

get in come November.

Where's that story in the mainstream media?

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