Could Bush Use Secret Service Records to Sink HRC?

AlterNet has an article out that raises the possibility that George W. Bush could use Secret Service records to damage Hillary Clinton's candidacy. The article points out that both Hillary and Bill Clinton are entitled to Secret Service protection. This means that where they go and who they meet are known to Secret Service agents. If Bush got hold of this information and if such information was embarrassing, it could be made public at a crucial point in the 2008 election, say after Labor Day, but before November?

The author of the article, Robert Parry, points out that Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush pressured State Department officials to examine documents relating to Bill Clinton's travels to the former Soviet Union when he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. The Bush campaign was looking for proof that Clinton tried to renounce his United States citizenship while he was in Europe and participated in anti-American rallies overseas while the Vietnam War was being fought. So the idea of using government documents to discredit political opponents is not new to the Bushies.

Of course, Americans would like to think that Secret Service agents wouldn't take part in such things, but during Bill Clinton's administration one of his earlier critics was a retired FBI agent, Gary Aldrich, who worked in both the Bush and Clinton White Houses. So, don't be so quick to discount Parry's thesis. After all, just a few short years ago most Americans would have assumed that the Attorney General would have no trouble denouncing torture.