Sunday, April 22, 2012

Secrets of the Secret Service

Actually, of all the things that could be called scandalous about the Obama administration, this Secret Service scandal shouldn't even register as attributable to this administration. This president has been responsible for a list of egregious acts against this nation on his own, but the failings of his Secret Service detail pales by comparison to what he himself is responsible for..

The fact that we have this lurid episode involving the nation's elite protective service, only points to the fact that as the Clinton administration clearly demonstrated, minor issues like character, integrity and morals tend to slide during liberal administrations. No big surprise there.

More agents gone
Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents' behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama's visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came to the White House late Friday to personally brief Obama in the Oval Office.

The Secret Service announced the new resignations, bringing to six the number of agency officers who have lost their jobs so far because of events at their hotel in Cartagena.

Also late Friday, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa urged a broader investigation, including checking hotel records for White House advance staff and communications personnel who were in Cartagena for the summit. In a letter to Sullivan and the inspector general at the Homeland Security Department, Grassley asked whether hotel records for the White House staffers had been pulled as part of the investigations.

An additional Secret Service employee was implicated Friday, a government official said, commenting only on condition of anonymity concerning the continuing investigation. That brings the number to 12. One has been cleared of serious misconduct but still faces administrative action, an official said.

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