Gaddaffi liked women to not look manly.
Posted on 04/27/2012 4:36:33 AM PDT by YourAdHere
A Black Secret Service agent is being hailed as the heroine in what is reportedly the worst scandal in the agency’s history.
Paula Reid is the 46-year-old special agent responsible for blowing the whistle on the sex scandal that turned the esteemed agency into so much fodder for the 24-hour news cycle and cable talk shows. Reid, the head of the service detail down in Latin America, discovered that at least 11 agents, including two supervisors, had brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms in Cartanega, Colombia, just days before the president arrived for an international summit. Such action posed a significant security risk for the commander-in-chief. Officials are praising Reid for her swift action.
“She acted decisively, appropriately,” said Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, and one of Congress’ lead investigators into this incident, on ABC’s “This Week” on April 22.
The other, New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney from the House Oversight Committee, added, “I talked to [Secret Service Director Mark] Sullivan last night, and he was commending her leadership, too. She really went in there and cleaned up the mess.”
In the wake of Reid’s probe, six agents have been fired, six others are being investigated and 11 military personnel are also under scrutiny. Officials are also examining whether this incident was part of a pattern.
“I recognize that the vast majority of Secret Service personnel are professional, disciplined, dedicated, courageous. But to me it defies belief that this is just an aberration,” Collins said. “There were too many people involved. If it had been one or two, then I would say it was an aberration. But it included two supervisors. That is particularly shocking and appalling.”
Reid’s leadership in this case is also shining a light on the paucity of women and minorities within the Secret Service.
“I can't help but wonder if there'd been more women as part of that detail if this ever would have happened,” Collins said Sunday on the weekly news talk show.
According to Maloney, the agency comprises only 11 percent women. “I can't help but keep asking this question, where are the women? We probably need to diversify the Secret Service and have more minorities and more women.”
Honestly, outside of sub-Saharan Africa, the working girls probably have a lesser chance of being infected with a disease than the drunken floozy hanging out at the local bar down the street. In such a profession these days, condoms tend to be mandated and the customers usually don't argue.
As far as married men fornicating with hookers overseas? Well, that's on their conscience, not mine. I'm certainly not going to consider it a major scandal though. I'm not advocating such behavior but as someone who has deployed overseas, there's an unspoken credo that "what happens in (whatever country) stays in (whatever country)" and it is considered a severe violation of the brotherly camaraderie to breech this credo.
I understand some folks may be shocked by what I just posted but it doesn't make it any less true. As was posted earlier, these guys' biggest mistake was in their failure to exercise a little better discretion.
This all has to do with the attitude of the POTUS. I could comment further but I wont.
Their biggest mistake was to parake of the hookers’ services to begin with.
Some people don’t think this is a big deal....whatever.
There is a chain of events that occurs here that people don’t think about.
There will be children getting pulled out of their school They will leave old friends and have to make new friends in a new place.
Their home will be put up for sale.
Mom and Dad won’t live together anymore, and they will have the joy of dividing their time between two houses.
Whether or not this is on your conscience is irrelevant to the true victims here.
I’ve been using this story has an example to my sons....these men are not cool. They are not heroes.
They’ve brought disgrace and shame upon themselves, their country, their wives and children.
I can't argue with this but I'll also add that there was a failure in their chain of command to squash this at the appropriate level. "Service members bang hookers overseas" should not be a national news story.
well then...maybe if you’re dumb enough to enrage a hooker by offering her only $28, then you certainly aren’t smart enough to be SS.
Although Mark Steyn did make a compelling case for why that guy should be hired to run the GSA.
I read that it wasn't exactly $28. I recall that one of these hookers fashioned herself an "escort" and was demanding $800. I might have my stories mixed up though.
I'd like to add that policing these guys overseas and squashing these events at the appropriate level is an increasingly difficult task when we have Secret Service members who are so poorly disciplined that they post about ogling Sarah Palin on their freakin' Facebook accounts.
I’m going on memory here...but I think at first her refused to pay her...anything. She gets shut out of the room.
She gets understandably pi$$ed and stands in the hallway causing a ruckus banging on the door.
He offers $28 (maybe it’s all he had in his pockets at the moment)
Since prostitution is legal, she feels free to call the police.
So...it isn’t just that he provokes a scene...he fails to foresee that the law is on her side.
That is when she says she is worth $800. He and the other guys dig around and come up with approx $250 - which she is still pi$$ed about.
What a completely embarrassing ridiculous scene it must have been.
Really....what a bunch of buffoons.
AMEN. Dishonor brought to an otherwise honorable profession.
You really think this stuff hasn't gone on for years? Not saying it's right, but the timing of this coming out is curious.
Tell me it ain't true, Harry. Tell me you didn't leave a daughter who left a daughter in D.C. Assure me Harry......I want to believe you.
>>>According to Maloney, the agency comprises only 11 percent women. “I can’t help but keep asking this question, where are the women? We probably need to diversify the Secret Service and have more minorities and more women.”
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Why are only 8% of registered nurses male? Is this anti-male discrimination? Or do far fewer males decide to go into this line of work due to tradition, the nature of the work, and, perish the thought, the fact that due to gender differences, more women might be suited for the job than men?
If she is a military veteran as well she is a ceo's quote dream.
You watch she will be “re assigned” or resign with in 90 days to “spend more time with her family”
This story broke because a Secret Service agent refused to pay his hooker the agreed price and the Colombian police got involved. Period. End of Story.
The left and their abominable racial and gender politics is disgusting and divisive.
Gaddaffi liked women to not look manly.
But when you called it what it was, you probably kept it in the det though?
I should add, of course, that the majority of our service members are honorable. Some guys, though, are weak when it comes to working girls when they are miles away from home and lonely. It's nothing new. This story has two elements. First and foremost is the lack of discipline and I'm not just talking about the behavior itself but the apparent absence of discretion. And then there is the total failure to deal with this at the lowest possible level. That this story went up the chain and exploded on the national headlines is nothing short of a complete embarrassment.
Deal with the behavior at the lowest possible level and keep this crap in-house. That should be the unspoken rule.
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