There haven't been any real scandals in the Obama White House, much to the consternation of a certain segment of the Washington press corps, so perhaps it's not surprising that the reports that a Secret Service agent failed to pay a Columbian prostitute days before President Obama entered the country dominated the Sunday morning broadcast political talk shows (CNN's State of the Union, admirably, at least didn't lead off with this story).
Sure, it was the 44th anniversary of Earth Day, a perfect opportunity to talk about the environment, but that's not where these network producers' heads were at on Sunday.
So far 12 Secret Service agents and 11 members of the U.S. military have been implicated. Six agents, including two supervisors, have lost their jobs.
New York Congressman Peter King, chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said in an interview on Meet The Press that the investigative focus should not be on the moral conduct of the accused, but rather the national security vulnerabilities presented by the incident.