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malaise

(268,680 posts)
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 06:43 AM Apr 2012

Oops -Secret Service Agents sent home

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/14/secret-service-agents-colombia-summit

US secret service agents sent to provide security for Barack Obama at a summit in Colombia have been sent home after allegations of heavy drinking and consorting with prostitutes.

Spokesman Edwin Donovan said the agents involved were relieved from duty and replaced with other agency personnel. "These personnel changes will not affect the comprehensive security plan that has been prepared in advance of the president's trip," Donovan said on Friday night.

Donovan said the allegations of misconduct were related to activity before the president arrived in Cartagena on Friday afternoon.

The agents at the centre of the allegations had stayed at Cartagena's Hotel Caribe. Several members of the White House staff and press corps were also staying at the hotel.

A hotel employee said the agents arrived at the beachfront hotel about a week ago and drank heavily during their stay. They were sent home on Thursday after they were admonished by a supervisor.
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Oops -Secret Service Agents sent home (Original Post) malaise Apr 2012 OP
and by the time faux news gets over this, it onethatcares Apr 2012 #1
LOL malaise Apr 2012 #2
you can also expect rush to discuss contraceptives..... Swamp Lover Apr 2012 #3
The SS and the local police violated my civil rights when I organized an antibush rally...eom Kolesar Apr 2012 #4

onethatcares

(16,161 posts)
1. and by the time faux news gets over this, it
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 07:01 AM
Apr 2012

will morph to the point of Pres. Obama furnishing tequila and cocaine to his security detail using a slush fund of

Chicago political machine money in order to do so. The syncopants will lap it up eagerly.

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