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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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To: rabidralph

That is not war. That is a dispute in a government procurement contract.


21 posted on 04/14/2012 2:49:05 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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To: butterdezillion
Wow. A federal agent is accused of second-degree murder, and there has been no media publicity?

The dead man must not have been carrying a bag of Skittles.

22 posted on 04/14/2012 2:50:53 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: BfloGuy

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.


I think you’re right. I would have absolutely no incentive or desire to protect an enemy. In fact, I would find it reprehensable.
Thus, the selected agents.


23 posted on 04/14/2012 2:51:24 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: jimbo123

But how about the big bag of coke? I’m sure the Food Stamp President likes to have a bowl of coke around so the group can lay lines and snort at will. Don’t the MSM whores travel with the FSP entourage .... why hire locals?


24 posted on 04/14/2012 2:52:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Don’t the MSM whores travel with the FSP entourage .... why hire locals?


Good point. Both sexes, too. He can choose which gender he wants at any given time.


25 posted on 04/14/2012 2:55:37 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: jimbo123

Why, were their male prostitutes involved?


26 posted on 04/14/2012 2:55:54 PM PDT by pallis
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To: jimbo123

“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.”

Always agree mutually on payment up front.

Are there many Secret Service Agents who don’t know about the up front thing. Idiot....


27 posted on 04/14/2012 2:56:48 PM PDT by hummingbird (Just askin' or just sayin' depending on the subject at hand.)
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To: jimbo123
Eating lobster and drinking champagne in her room.

How does anyone know whether or not the woman was in moochelle's room? A clue would be champagne and lobster on her breath ....

28 posted on 04/14/2012 2:57:03 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: butterdezillion

When I saw the lede, I wondered ‘Why does the Secret Service need to be discredited now? Is it because they think Obama will lose and the Secret Service might talk because he’s no longer prez or do they ‘know something?’’

Or maybe they are just jerks. I dunno...


29 posted on 04/14/2012 2:57:26 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Psalm 144

How, exactly, do people “end up” with prostitutes?

Did the hotel staff leave them outside the rooms like newspapers?


30 posted on 04/14/2012 2:59:29 PM PDT by livius
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To: Verginius Rufus

This is the first I’ve heard of it. He’s still employed with the State Department and the trial is delayed, according to http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2012/03/12/more-on-state-department-diplomatic-security-murder-in-hawaii/

I want to read the other posts to see if there’s anything interesting there.


31 posted on 04/14/2012 3:01:25 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: livius
Was slick billy clintoon in the neighborhood? This would explain everything.
32 posted on 04/14/2012 3:02:51 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: jimbo123

“....and other people who ended up with prostitutes....” LOL

Look what followed me home honey, can I keep her?


33 posted on 04/14/2012 3:03:36 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: All
opps ... just saw the male prostitute angle ... so where were anthony weineer and huma door?
34 posted on 04/14/2012 3:04:14 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Psalm 144

Man..... with Whitney chilling at room temp...is there a market for washed up SS agents as Body Gaurds?


35 posted on 04/14/2012 3:04:24 PM PDT by Autonomous User ( As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.)
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To: livius

“Did the hotel staff leave them outside the rooms like newspapers?”

Some do send them up, but it costs extra, as these guys are finding out. Amazing. You are on duty in a foreign country, and do this? That is what R&R is for, if you must. They could as easily gotten their throats cut as . . whatever they did get.


36 posted on 04/14/2012 3:04:24 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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To: no-to-illegals

I don’t think Bill was there...but that’s how it is. Prostitutes happen.


37 posted on 04/14/2012 3:05:07 PM PDT by livius
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To: butterdezillion
the first I've heard of it

Had to be a drug deal gone bad (imho), and zer0, hilly, billy (or possibly moochelle) pulled the trigger. Froze face (pelosi) wasn't in the neighborhood was she?

38 posted on 04/14/2012 3:09:47 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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Bet barney was having a frank.


39 posted on 04/14/2012 3:10:46 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Gator113


You're a hooker? Jesus, I forgot! I just thought I was doing GREAT with you!
40 posted on 04/14/2012 3:10:46 PM PDT by jimbo123
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