Secret Service Scandal: At Least Three More Expected to Lose Jobs

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents' behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama's visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came to the White House late Friday to personally brief Obama in the Oval Office.

The Secret Service announced the new resignations, bringing to six the number of agency officers who have lost their jobs so far because of events at their hotel in Cartagena.

Also late Friday, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, urged a broader investigation, including whether White House advance staff and communications personnel may have shared rooms with the Secret Service at the Caribe or other hotels in Cartagena. In a letter to Sullivan and the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security, Grassley asked whether hotel records for the White House staffers had been pulled as part of the investigations.

An additional Secret Service employee was implicated Friday, a government official said, commenting only on condition of anonymity concerning the continuing investigation. That brings the number to 12. One has been cleared of serious misconduct but still faces administrative action, an official said.

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[Little Star]

1. How many does that make so far?

[Major Hogwash]

5. Secret Service agents - 6, Prostitutes - 0

And it's only half-time!!

[HereSince1628]

2. I'm ok as long as they get whatever due process was in their contracts

that insures fair treatment.

This isn't really any enduring issue, fix it as is proper, make sure it's an that issue everyone in the SS and military (as necessary) is clear on re why it needed fixing, and let the SS team get past it.

I know politicians want to look like prosecutors but I don't care much about how a Congressional committee 'clutches their pearls' on this.

[aquart]

3. Fine. My sympathy is zero.

My reaction is still ice cold outrage.

[Skittles]

4. they are an absolute DISGRACE

time for some extreme house cleaning in the Secret Service