Ghost of a flea

He obtained the pass with his real name.

Which suggests the Secret Service evidently has no problem with the escort business. Excepting my personal "too much Flea, not enough six-pack abs" issue, I could care less either. So what is the witch hunt for? I am trying to imagine anything remotely comparable to this in Canada and keep going back to an unsettling mental image of a Mike Duffy escort sight. Gaaah!

"Site"! I meant "site"... not "sight"! Gaaaahhhh!

My guess is that the Secret Service tends to frown upon these things, not from any over-active sense of morality, but because guys using aliases and leading ostensibly double lives tends to make one an easy mark for blackmail.

On the other hand it's not as if he had a direct pipeline to the President or the Press Secretary. He has to sit in a room with a few hundred other guys and hope he gets called upon.

Seems like a giant waste of time and much ado about nothing, really.

To obtain a day pass (not permanent credentials), I doubt the secret service looks into porn credentials. These are issues on an ad hoc basis. There is a lot of overestimation of the Secret Service's credentialing process going around ...

After all, they don't dig up the financial records of every group of people that sit in a room with the president.

I concur Bill, and should have elaborated further. I don't think the Secret Service is all that concerned about the potential blackmailing of pass-holding gay porn stars either. I think the potential for bodily harm arising from such an individual questioning the President is so low as to be infinitesimal.

But the argument that's being made from the left is that "security matters". If their concern was genuine then they should have been all over Clinton for letting various Hollywood nobodies sleep down the hall from him in the Lincoln bedroom. And then there's the taking of campaign contributions from individuals with strong connections to the PRC government.

But the most disingenuous thing is that we know full well if Bush were to actually be assassinated or harmed by a Jeff Gannon figure, they'd be celebrating, not berating the Secret Service for lax security.