Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Three Secret Service personnel tied to Colombia prostitution scandal to leave agency | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

"...House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to Secret Service director Mark Sullivan warning that the agents, who allegedly brought prostitutes to their rooms at the Hotel Caribe, may have brought the escorts "into contact with sensitive security information." Congressmen Darrell Issa and Elijah Cummings also requested a range of details from the agency, including a determination as to whether the women involved were all over 18 years of age.
In their letter, Issa and Cummings bluntly told Sullivan that "your task is to restore the world's confidence in the U.S. Secret Service."
"Our nation's capacity to protect the President, the Vice President, and visiting foreign leaders, among others, is dependent on the character and judgment of the agents and officers of the U.S. Secret Service. The actions of at least 11 agents and officers in Colombia last week showed an alarming lack of both," the lawmakers wrote in the letter obtained by ABC.
"The facts as you described them raised questions about the agency's culture," they wrote. "The incident in Cartagena is troubling because Secret Service agents and officers made a range of bad decisions, from drinking too much, to engaging with prostitutes, to bringing foreign nationals into contact with sensitive security information, to exposing themselves to blackmail and other forms of potential compromise.""

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