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Mon Jan 28, 2013, 06:19 PM Jan 2013

Report: No problem with Secret Service response to Colombia scandal

A second government report on the Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia found no fault with how the agency investigated the matter, according to a copy obtained Friday by CNN.

The report by the Homeland Security Department inspector general's office was scheduled to be released next week.

In its first report last September, the inspector general concluded that the incident in which Secret Service agents brought prostitutes to their Cartagena hotel last spring caused no security threat before President Barack Obama arrived in the country for a summit.

The new report coming out Tuesday said the Secret Service "responded expeditiously and thoroughly" to the incident. The agency immediately pulled 11 agents allegedly involved in the prostitution scandal from the security detail, put them on administrative leave and removed their security clearances.

full: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/25/us/secret-service-colombia/index.html

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