Secret Service fiasco, Mark Twain edition: Innocents Abroad

While other explanations have been offered (http://tinyurl.com/c5q4vjp), a new possibility comes to light in a New York Times article regarding the Secret Service scramble to contain the fallout from the prostitution scandal.  Sources suggest that over the past decade agents have moved toward more clean cut activities on the road.  Still,

Of course.  He reached for the
Lonely Planet Travel guide, which had
always been so helpful in
planning off-hours itenerary....

“After work is done, people like to have a good time, and they are often in very interesting places around the world with a lot of time to kill,” said a former White House official who worked on advance teams with the Secret Service.

Here's the link:  http://tinyurl.com/cjm7wzc