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THREE US SECRET Service agents are leaving the service after a prostitution scandal in Colombia which emerged ahead of the US president’s diplomatic mission to the country.
A dozen agents were recalled by the president after allegations agents had engaged the services of prostitutes while in Colombia ahead of the president’s visit.
The Secret Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the claims, though the Homeland Security Department has been notified. Secret Service director Mark Sullivan has said he has also referred the case to an independent government investigator.
In a statement, the Secret Service said that one supervisor retired, another is being fired, and a third employee who is not a supervisor has resigned. Eight employees remain on administrative leave.
At least ten military personnel are also being investigated for misconduct over last week’s allegations.
The NYT reports that the scandal came to light after a dispute arose over how much money was owed to one of the women involved. The dispute grew to involve another prostitute, local police and more US agents.
The woman initially involved in the dispute told the paper that the agent she met did not tell her that he worked for the US president.
- Additional reporting by the AP
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This must be a real blow for them..
Undercover.
Sher they were only having the craic, leave em off!!
No sympathy for the dirty old bastards !! And had the idiots paid what was owed nobody would be any the wiser !! Now their wives or girlfriends and family know their sordid little secret !!
Some change from the Kennedy era, when SS agents were used to ferry women in and out of the White House for the two brothers to have their fun…
Ah yes gone are the days When the Secret Service kept lookout while the President saw prostitutes!!
The Secret Service were just observing a long tradition of the USA f***ing South America! And just when most Americans thought national debt couldn’t get any worse they now owe money to Colombian hookers!
This is a complete distraction from the agenda of drug legalization/decriminalisation at the summer of the America’s. Seriously who gives a damn about secret service agents prostitutes.
well, at least they weren’t killing , urinating on corpses, posing for photographs beside them
all things considered, in terms of USA behaviour abroad this looks benign
I’d say this went right up to the top brass.
Brassers maybe
When you put “removed” in quotes like that it looks like a euphemism for “executed on the quiet”. And hey, you never know with this administration.
Wasn’t a very secret “service” was it?
What about all the cocain and heroin rings ?
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