President Obama`s Secret Service 'Outta control...,' involved in alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia

Obama's Secret Service agents sent home amid alleged prostitution scandal
NY Post/ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 13, 2012

A dozen Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to provide security for President Barack Obama at an international summit were relieved of duty and returned home amid allegations of misconduct that involved prostitution, according to multiple reports.

A caller who said he had knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press the misconduct involved prostitutes in Cartagena, site of the Summit of the Americas. A Secret Service spokesman did not dispute that.

"One of the agents did not pay one of the prostitutes, and she complained to the police," Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post reporter and author of "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect" told CNN.

The Washington Post, which was the first to report the story, said Kessler alerted them to the situation.

Kessler told the Washington Post that while soliciting prostitutes is legal in Colombia within designated "tolerance zones," it's considered inappropriate by the Secret Service. Several of the agents involved are married, Kessler also told the DC paper.

In Washington, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan would not confirm that prostitution was involved, saying only that there had been "allegations of misconduct" made against Secret Service personnel in Cartagena for the summit...

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