Absolutely. I was just thinking, perhaps naively, that a high-level Secret Service agent would be a bit more cautious and would think "I better report this thin

Absolutely. I was just thinking, perhaps naively, that a high-level Secret Service agent would be a bit more cautious and would think "I better report this thing to my superiors and not touch it at all, just in case", even if they know nothing about technology. You want cautious and paranoid people in a job like that.