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NBC: Prostitute's $50 fee for two agents triggered Secret Service scandal
msnbc ^ | 4/17/2012 | Michael Isikoff and Jim Miklaszewski

Posted on 04/17/2012 3:33:56 PM PDT by tobyhill

The Colombian prostitute who triggered the scandal that has rocked the Secret Service got angry with two agents who refused to pay her full price for servicing the two of them, leading to a financial dispute over between $40 and $60, according to a government source who has been briefed on the investigation.

Two agents from the service's elite Counter Assault Team, in Cartagena, Colombia, in advance of President Barack Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas over the weekend, had procured the women's services at a local strip club called the Pley Club on the evening of April 11. All the Secret Service agents and officers implicated in the scandal are believed to have gone to the club that evening and brought back women, a U.S. official told NBC News.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: columbia; prostitute
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To: Jeff Head
Either Obama and his policies have completely destroyed the Secret Service and replaced the older officers with new ones chosen under entirely different criteria

I will go with option number 2. The Praetorian Guard could always be counted on to throw the best orgy.
21 posted on 04/17/2012 4:20:03 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: OwenKellogg; Jeff Head
This is some seriously scary stuff.

Thing is that there are no real facts that have been reported, don't know how many "Agents" were actually hookering it up.

Might have been only one or two, and all of their associates are being cashiered for not keeping a couple of degenerate morons in line.

That would actually be the responsible thing for Command to do.

If the Supervisors weren't respected or feared enough, and fellow agents not vigilant enough that even one SS agent would even try pulling something like this, the whole squad needs to go.

22 posted on 04/17/2012 4:27:35 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Rick Santorum -Mission Accomplished)
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To: Venturer

Something else. The press is almost certainly well aware of who the agents are,, and probably have a ton of photos of them from other trips.

Someone won’t show us pix,, and i’m getting curious as to why. They are either Holders people,, or if not, they know things about Obama and the press does not want to focus the spotlight on them and ramp up the pressure. They might start to sing,,


23 posted on 04/17/2012 4:28:11 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for officeoffI)
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To: kenmcg

Is there a “thin gray line” in play here? If these guys suffer too much do their buddies start getting lax on purpose?


24 posted on 04/17/2012 4:29:35 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: tobyhill
these cheap azzholes don't know the first thing about prostitutes... they aren't paying them for sex, they are paying them to keep their mouth shut and go quietly away when they are done!!!

they deserve to lose their jobs and their pensions

25 posted on 04/17/2012 4:29:58 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: DesertRhino
Exactly,,, why aren’t we seeing photos of who they are?

Uh, maybe because they are the Secret Service?

Wouldn't mind pics of the hookers though.

In fact, WHERE THE HELL IS THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER?

26 posted on 04/17/2012 4:31:05 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Rick Santorum -Mission Accomplished)
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To: GonzoGOP

what do you think? Cronyism? Affirmative action?


27 posted on 04/17/2012 4:31:05 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Jeff Head

“or there is something else going on here and these people are being purged for one reason or another”

Could there be a new Praetorian Guard in the making? Think SS, not the Secret Service kind, the REAL SS.

Something’s not right..


28 posted on 04/17/2012 4:34:43 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: tobyhill

The prurient side of me wonders what sex act was being disputed for fifty bucks.


29 posted on 04/17/2012 4:35:58 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (The only flaw is that America doesn't recognize Cyber's omniscience. -- sergeantdave)
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To: tobyhill

U.S. Secret Serviced


30 posted on 04/17/2012 4:43:04 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (??. Who knew?)
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To: MNDude
what do you think? Cronyism? Affirmative action?

Cronyism of a security minded sort. He wanted people loyal to him and him alone. The sort that wouldn't blab about how many times Bill Ayres or Gorge Soros were at the White House. Professionals are loyal to the service and the office. They might drop a dime on someone who is systematically destroying the nation and disgracing the office they were sworn to protect. So he brought in guys who were politically reliable, even if they lacked the professional standards of the old service.

Remember in 2009 there were all those stories about how Michelle mistreated the secret service. Notice how we don't hear that kind of story any more. So do you think Michelle changed, or that the secret service has been changed to those who won't talk about the masters business.

It is after all the Chicago way. The bodyguard of the Chicago mayor was never to protect him. Its job was to clean up after him.
31 posted on 04/17/2012 4:44:13 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: JRios1968

Outstanding!


32 posted on 04/17/2012 4:45:13 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: tobyhill
I cant wait for Zimmerman to sue NBC out of existence.
33 posted on 04/17/2012 4:49:40 PM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: Rome2000

“Uh, maybe because they are the Secret Service”

Trite,,, but they will all lose their jobs. Their identity doesn’t need to be secret. Also, agents are routinely noted in press photos. The name is “secret service” but no, their names are not actually a “secret”. Also, the press undoubtedly knows who they are.
The press and Obama have a habit of relentlessly exposing anything secret when they think it benefits them. So when the press and Obama are keeping photos away,,, it benefits them somehow. Just watch.


34 posted on 04/17/2012 5:00:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for officeoffI)
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To: OwenKellogg
You've all heard of the booklet called "Stamps and Stories" from when you were kids, or your kids were kids. USPS had a contract to publish that way back in the good old days ~ with the work done by a fellow who owned many of the copyrights on much of the art work ~ and he did a great job.

There was a large USPS meeting in NYC and a good dozen employees in the then Marketing Division ~ very involved in the sale downstream of Stamps and Stories to mostly children (through their parents) ended up spending the night at the contractor's Mid-Town Penthouse ~ which was, apparently, huge!

So, somewhere the story got out that a dozen Postal "Executives" partied it up at so - and - so's penthouse suite in an all-night party!

The scandal rolled on for months and dire threats of punishment were made by politicians everywhere ~ Jack Anderson raged!

In the end not much was done. There was no party.

Most of those "executives" were just lower level staff guys working in the same office I was. That's back in the days when postal clerks (several rungs below our level) were paying higher taxes than the Speaker of the House. A very primitive time.

We probably will never hear the details of what happened in Columbia, or what happened to these guys caught up in it, but Fur Shur it will be far less significant than imagined by anyone presently commenting on it.

35 posted on 04/17/2012 5:28:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: tobyhill
"Oh, and did we mention that the Colombian prostitutes were probably underage?"
37 posted on 04/17/2012 5:36:11 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: GonzoGOP

Yours would be the most plausible explanation thus far, if the agents were the “body” team, but weren’t these guys from the advance team?


38 posted on 04/17/2012 5:38:14 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: tobyhill

There is no “good” explanation for this story. It is either evidence of massive corruption in the SS ranks or a massive setup job to destroy these agents.


39 posted on 04/17/2012 5:50:58 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: tobyhill

Is prostitution legal or illegal in Columbia?


40 posted on 04/17/2012 5:51:56 PM PDT by meyer (Fluke - the new "F" word)
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