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Secret Service Agents Face Questioning on Misconduct (New details on HookerGate)
NY Times ^ | 4/14/12 | JACKIE CALMES and ERIC SCHMITT

Posted on 04/14/2012 2:29:12 PM PDT by jimbo123

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“There are people who willingly went to prostitutes and other people who ended up with prostitutes,” the official said. “Either way, it’s just unacceptable.”

Specifically, the official said, on Wednesday night an agent is believed to have taken a Colombian woman back to his hotel room and had then thrown her out in a dispute over money; investigators are trying to figure out whether the agent knew that she had intended to be paid.

The woman apparently began causing a disturbance in the hallway, eventually bringing other Secret Service agents — as well as a small number of law enforcement and military officials working with them on security and communications matters — out of their rooms and attracting the attention of hotel management and security.

It emerged that others on the team also had women in their rooms. Tempers flared, compounded by the language barrier. At some point Colombian police became involved, and American government officials decided to replace the team.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hookergate; obama; secretservice; secretservicescandal
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I wonder if Reggie Love was a member of Obama's advance team down at the hotel.
1 posted on 04/14/2012 2:29:20 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Agent Cheapskate was inept at so many levels. Probably blighted the careers of his entire team, whether or not they deserved it. Perhaps they did, if only in failing to set a watch on bumble britches.


2 posted on 04/14/2012 2:35:49 PM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." - Willard M Romney)
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Where was moochelle?


3 posted on 04/14/2012 2:36:20 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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He could have at least called her a cab.


4 posted on 04/14/2012 2:37:04 PM PDT by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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The woman didn't come out of hillary’s room? Can the truth be told?
5 posted on 04/14/2012 2:38:48 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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The SS has probably relaxed the stringent qualifications to suite 0bama. I think he prefers black agents around him. Just my opinion.


6 posted on 04/14/2012 2:39:31 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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Where was moochelle?

Eating lobster and drinking champagne in her room.
7 posted on 04/14/2012 2:39:45 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Two supervisors among the 12 and 5 military. Monkish existence my arse.


8 posted on 04/14/2012 2:40:59 PM PDT by biggredd1
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Is SS now hiring from TSA?


9 posted on 04/14/2012 2:41:48 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Romney's judicial appointments were more radical than Obama's)
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I think he prefers black agents around him.

I hadn't thought of that angle, but this is the first Secret Service scandal I remember and I have to wonder if morale and esprit de corps [corpse?] have deteriorated during the current administration. Sure looks like it.

10 posted on 04/14/2012 2:42:48 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: Psalm 144

Democrats diversify their War on Women.


11 posted on 04/14/2012 2:43:06 PM PDT by rabidralph
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And how do the secret service agents know that these women are not agents of other countries and/or groups that want to cause the US harm?

Seems exceedingly stupid to do something like this.

That is, if true...


12 posted on 04/14/2012 2:44:00 PM PDT by DB
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No...not the TSA but from the GSA.


13 posted on 04/14/2012 2:44:26 PM PDT by Autonomous User ( As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.)
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If Obama had a son... The Secret Service would “stiff” his Hooker.


14 posted on 04/14/2012 2:46:11 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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These 12 Jokesters can always get a job with Wacknhut Security.


15 posted on 04/14/2012 2:46:53 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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JACKIE CALMES and ERIC SCHMITT will write what they’re told to write.


16 posted on 04/14/2012 2:47:41 PM PDT by Crawdad
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One line in the article is rather confusing, at best..

Under what possible circumstances could military members of the advance team, obviously selected for their qualifications, have a "curfew"?

17 posted on 04/14/2012 2:47:54 PM PDT by ken5050 (The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
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From the article:

“Mr. Obama’s security detail has been involved in other episodes in recent months.

A federal agent with the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security was charged with second-degree murder last November after shooting a man in Honolulu, according to news reports at the time. The agent was off duty but was on the island to provide advance security arrangements for Mr. Obama’s visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting.”

Hmm. A second-degree murder in Honolulu in November? In preparation for Obama’s visit... Hmm. I wonder who the victim was.


18 posted on 04/14/2012 2:48:04 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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Jackie Calmes and Eric Schmitt will write what they’re told to write.


19 posted on 04/14/2012 2:48:15 PM PDT by Crawdad
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Let's hope he didn't call her a "slut," or he would be part of the Republicans' war on women.

How long before this is all blamed on George W. Bush?

20 posted on 04/14/2012 2:48:33 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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