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I mean - USSS has a reputation to uphold. Of being drunken, coke-snorting fuckups.
state diplomatic security services is not secret service (USSS)
Not really.
There was the Columbia brothel thing, but unless you've been to Cartegenia, you don't understand how plausible it is to not realize you're in a brothel for hours.
It's a blurry line when drunk and you definitely get steered to them by locals, even if you just ask for a place to drink, because they all serve cheap drinks so you use their other services.
But like, it's 100% legal. It's not going into a seedy underbelly like people assume, it could be a bar on the main strip thousands of people walk by daily.
USSS earned their reputation over many decades. That is not the only incident (and if I recall correctly, that incident was a lot more "involved" than your description).
Thanks for all the examples!
Ok. One of the first ones I remember reading about a few decades ago got a lot of news coverage at the time. In San Diego a bunch of drunk Secret Service agents started a bar fight and beat the shit out of a couple guys. One of the Secret Service agents bit a mans ear off during the fight.
The secret service officers protecting Kennedy were up all night drinking grain alcohol the night before he was assassinated.