CBS News) Ronald Kessler, best-selling author of "In the President's Service" and a former reporter for The Washington Post, called the dismissal of 12 Secret Service members in Columbia prior to President Obama's arrival there "the biggest scandal in Secret Service history."
Secret Service confirms members' removal
According to CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante, a source in the Secret Service told CBS News that one or more of the officers was involved with prostitutes and that there was a dispute over payment. One prostitute went to the police, who notified the State Department.
Two of the Secret Service personnel sent home were supervisors, Plante said; the rest were part of a detail assigned to logistics. None of those relieved of duty was a member of the president's protective detail.
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Saw the article in a few places. Your header made me laugh, and then throw up in my mouth a little. A word picture I can't seem to shake-- it is too horrible, like looking into an abyss ( pun intended). And to think there are 2 daughters.
ReplyDeleteDoes this beat the wild, drunken party the night before the JFK assassination?
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