Thing is, their visiting prostitutes leaves the agents open to blackmail, and thus a potential security risk. The degree of the risk depends on whether they are married, a deacon or the equivalent in their church, and so forth. Even if prostitution were 100% legal in both the United States and Colombia, those risks would remain, tho they would be lower. It's not just the physical security of the President that would potentially be at risk. Might not a hedge fund be interested in advance word of what will be announced at the next G-8 summit?
By the same logic though, what if a closeted Secret Service agent was caught visiting a gay bar?Their own reaction to their own behavior makes them a blackmail risk. To avoid that, if that situation were to happen, then they should be offered a choice between resigning or coming out of the closet. (Or being transferred to a position where they would have nothing to give up if they were blackmailed.) I wish that a policy of "Do Ask and Do Tell" were not needed for such positions, but I feel that it is.
