@Charles Here’s why it’s worth a lot of news. I shall write it as a movie plot:
Agent X is a war-decorated veteran who is happily married and has 3 kids who he adores. He is now in the Secret Service and assigned to the President after years of lower assignments. He and the President get along, thick as thieves.
One day, he sees a packet showing photos of him having a sex with (a female prostitute, a male prostitute or children – you pick). It was from a time he got drunk and was going through marital problems. Turns out they had drugged his drink and took the photos to be used at a later time.
This is the later time. He is told to walk the President to a certain part of Camp David or a certain part of a public appearance. The President will be shot. He won’t be able to jump in front of the President because bullets travel faster than the speed of sound. He won’t hear the bullet until the President has already been fatally shot.
The SS agent doesn’t have time to clear his name much less identify the people involved. The event will happen in just a few hours.
OK, now remove the Hollywood crap and just think of the advantage of having a SS agent in your back pocket. You could have him working for you for years suborning justice.
That is why you worry about security details being put in a compromising position.