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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/14/secret-service-agents-colombia-summitUS 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
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onethatcares
(16,161 posts)1. and by the time faux news gets over this, it
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.
Swamp Lover
(431 posts)3. you can also expect rush to discuss contraceptives.....
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)4. The SS and the local police violated my civil rights when I organized an antibush rally...eom