Fox News reports that in the wake of the scandal in Colombia, the Secret Service has established a host of new rules for its agents and that some trips will include chaperones.
This seems to me to be another step in the infantilization of society. Secret Service men have one of the most deadly serious jobs on the planet. They are literally expected to take a bullet for the President or other high officials they are assigned to protect. You expect these men to be the most mature, serious-minded men in any given room.
So, if some of them prove they are not serious of mind, you fire them, or worse, and let that serve as a lesson to the rest. The rules and chaperones are pointless. If they can't be trusted to do their jobs without being chaperoned and micromanaged like ninth-graders on a class trip, then how can they be trusted to protect the President?
If the problem is systemic, you fire (or worse) the director of the Secret Service and get someone in there who knows what he's doing. They say organizations rot from the top down.
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