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The Secret Service says it’s looking into a new report that a group of its agents and U.S. military specialists partied hard at a strip club in El Salvador, with some hiring prostitutes, prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last year.
The report Thursday by Seattle’s KIRO-TV comes on the heels of an agency scandal involving allegations that Secret Service employees hired prostitutes and took them back to their hotel rooms earlier this month in Cartagena, Colombia. Twelve agency personnel who were investigated in that incident have been dealt with: eight were forced out, the agency is trying to permanently revoke the security clearance of one, and three others have been cleared of serious wrongdoing but will face administrative discipline, according to The Associated Press.
In the KIRO-TV report, investigative reporter Chris Halsne said he interviewed a government subcontractor who worked with a Secret Service advance team in the El Salvadoran capital, San Salvador, prior to a March 2011 visit by Obama to meet with the new president of the Central American country.
The subcontractor, who was not named, said he joined about a dozen Secret Service employees and a few U.S. military specialists in a visit to a strip club a few days before Obama’s arrival.
According to the KIRO report:
This source witnessed the majority of the men drink heavily ("wasted," "heavily intoxicated") at the strip club. He says most of the Secret Service "advance-team" members also paid extra for access to the VIP section of the club where they were provided a number of sexual favors in return for their cash. Although our source says he told the agents it was a "really bad idea" to take the strippers back to their hotel rooms, several agents bragged that they "did this all the time" and "not to worry about it." Our source says at least two agents had escorts check into their rooms. It is unclear whether the escorts who returned to the hotels were some of the strippers from the same club.
The strip club’s owner confirmed that Secret Service agents and some military members visited the establishment the week prior to Obama’s visit, KIRO reported. The owner reportedly also told Halsne that FBI and DEA agents and U.S. Embassy employees in San Salvador also frequented the club.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano vowed to get to the bottom of the prostitution scandal that cost several members of the Secret Service their jobs. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
The Secret Service said Thursday it is looking into the report.
“The recent investigation in Cartagena has generated several news stories that contain allegations by mostly unnamed sources. Any information that is brought to our attention that can be assessed as credible will be followed up on in an appropriate manner,” the agency said in a statement.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said in a statement: "We always take any allegation of employee misconduct seriously and, if proven to have merit, we will take swift and appropriate action." A spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said it had no comment.
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Watched the vidio. News women Savanna Guthry looked like hammered cat scat.
I just wasted a lot of time reading all the posts. A super percentage all miss one fact, but first; BHO in my opinion is the worst leader we have ever had. I do believe him to be a marxist.
With that said, he is the president and needs the best protection we can supply. The one fact most have not talked about is "the security plan was compromised". The plan was there when they were drunk and having a party with people that are not on the need to know list, of this plan. I could care less if it was hookers or a rumba band. They had potential access to it so the plan now must be considered compromised and it was not reported by those doing the deed.
I have no clue what the rules are for the secret service are, but as a vet that did security pre-
visit work for command & flag level, the military men that were on this detail violated so much.
1. From the lowest private to the joint chiefs, all military are required to do what ever job given to follow the military general orders. Every officer and enlisted man are required to memorize these word for word at basic training. Under the U.C.M.J., article 134, they can be charged with violation any of the general orders.
2. For this type of duty, there are standing orders. One is that if they have any reason to believe the plan has been compromised, at that point in time to report it. At least 40 years ago, the comsumption of booze was not allowed by standing order.
3. Special orders would be given based on the type, location and nature of the detail. This covering such things as if becoming ill, who to notify and where to go if medical attention is required, as example.
From the military side, this could get ugly for those involved.
Can someone tell me why it is wrong for a Secret Service person, who is off duty, to sleep with a prostitute?
I suggest they look into who is responsible for doing the hiring for the U.S. Secret Service. The future of all civilization is potentially being decided by the quality of those serving in the U.S. Secret Service. Clearly there has been a breakdown of standards for that vital service. We trust the continuity of our system of democracy to those guardian people. - RC
(How do we know that President Obama has not been replaced by an ET clone on one of his overseas trips? You may think this is dumb, but I promise you IT IS NOT !!!) - RC
(It is not just terrestrial threats which we have to protect our POTUS & Commander in Chief from, ABOVE ALL it is Extra Terrestrial (ET) threats as well !!!) - RC
((Just for the hell of it, MSNBC, let's make this for the historical record, shall we? It really shouldn't cost you that much.)) - RC
In keeping with the principals of the left where we abort unwanted children both the healthy and those with Downs syndrome; I would like to suggest that those with all forms of mental disability be euthanized. This would be in keeping with the thoughts and actions of one of the great socialists of the 20th century, Adolph Hitler.
Ask the Jews of Eurpoe who gave up their guns what they think about gun control. Oops, sorry, most of them are dead.
Being personally responsible for my actions I pray for the children and families of the lost and hold on to my guns.