Posted on 03/25/2014 7:00:35 PM PDT by kristinn
Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam this week were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking, according to three people familiar with the incident. One of them was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway, the people said.
The hotel staff alerted the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands after finding the unconscious agent Sunday morning, a day before Obama arrived in the country, according to two of the people. The embassy then alerted Secret Service managers on the presidential trip, which included Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed Tuesday evening that the agency “did send three employees home for disciplinary reasons” and that they were put on administrative leave pending an investigation. Donovan declined to comment further.
According to two people familiar with the Amsterdam incident, the three individuals are all members of the Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team, known in the agency as CAT, and one was serving in a supervisory position.
The alleged behavior would violate new Secret Service rules adopted in the wake of a damaging scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2012, when a dozen Secret Service agents and officers had been drinking heavily and had brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms prior to the president’s arrival for an economics summit.
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Interesting idea. Thanks.
His behavior was not criminal in that case, was it? It was a civil action. Were they trying to protect WJC or precedent? I must admit I can’t remember the exact details of what their lawyers said at the time.
The SS is really no better than any other gang of FedGov “workers.” Maybe worse....
Well now they’re back in the SS.....”Small Salary”.
I was just giving multiple scenarios of what could happened in regards to some SS agent falling down drunk...Obviously there are many others.
That was my question on another forum....good way to clear house like is being done in the military.
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