if, in fact, these agents have been blackmailed, for example, and they let a terrorist in or they let the russian foreign intelligence service do bugging, then of course it would have been a different story, the standard should not be there was not an assassination, the standard should be there should never be a scandal like this which is the worst in the history of the secret service. gregg: talk to us about this culture. you mentioned two sides of culture, one of which is cost cutting. the other one is sort of laziness and talk to us about that. you know, when there s a dysfunctional culture in any agency, it s hard to understand how it happened or why it happened, but it is a situation where the secret service has the attitude we make do with less, we don t need more money, so the agents have totally over are totally
let s focus specifically on this scandal. how high does this it rang in terms of a black eye? no question this is the biggest scandal in the history of the secret service and these agents could have been blackmailed by these prostitutes to let a terrorist in, to let the russian foreign intelligence service in. just incredible. but it is a symptom of what i wrote about in the secret service and the salahi intrusion is another example. i broke the story in the washington post and to hear president obama refer to allegations in the press, we have to find out if they re true, his own government said these agents engaged in misconduct and they re why they re being accepts homsent h. for him to say i ll be angry is a line of lack of sleerleadersh.