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Home Front: Politix
Members of elite Secret Service unit among those suspended in Colombia
2012-04-17
Two Secret Service supervisors and three members of the agency's elite Counter-Assault Teams were among the 11 agents sent back from Colombia and placed on administrative leave over allegations that they brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms in Cartagena, law enforcement officials tell NBC News.

The involvement of Counter-Assault Team (CAT) members-- who are not members of the Uniformed Division, but full-fledged Secret Service agents -- ratchets up the seriousness of the incident, officials said. The heavily armed agents play a key role in protecting the president, serving as part of any presidential motorcade, usually a few cars back from the president's. Their responsibility is to "neutralize" any attack "as quickly as possible," according to the Secret Service website.

"Their job is to fend off a heavy assault on the motorcade to give POTUS a chance to flee to a safe locale," one law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told NBC News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Humm -- just an advanced planning team as the media originally reported? And this is from MSNBC.
The source said the two of the CAT team members were directly involved in the dispute with one of the prostitutes at the Hotel Caribe that led to the scandal. After bringing back the prostitute to their hotel room, the agents reportedly got into a dispute with one of the women when she complained she hadn't been paid. The woman then went to the Colombian police -- who reported the matter to the U.S. Embassy.

Others involved in the incident include three members of the Secret Service Counter-Sniper Team, which is part of the Uniformed Division.

The source also said the incident raised the possibility of a potential security breach, telling NBC News that all Secret Service personnel had been given copies of the president's schedule, which they are told to lock up in a safe in their hotel rooms.
Posted by:Sherry

#10  You should have paid the $47 in Columbia. You never know whom the pimp may be.
Posted by: newc   2012-04-17 21:58  

#9  1. The fish rots from the head. 2. It may be poorly briefed that human trafficking and/or under-aged prostitution as many other items of health. 3. As a representative of the Federal Government, and as of your Country, you ought to know better. 4. It's a petty crime unless CINC could have been compromised by leaving... say calendars about. 5. If off duty, remember above.
6. Some learn the hard way. The Price of Freedom? a Buck O' Five. The price of a Security Clearance? $36,000.00 and a job.
7. Let's not make a which hunt.The administration has plenty of "Gun Walkers" across the border.
Posted by: newc   2012-04-17 21:47  

#8  The administration wanted to save the life of a child that was raped and beaten to death with a hunk of sidewalk by an illegal. Also used a 15 inch stick with a nail on the end to rape her and tear her insides up, birds of a feather flock together they are all the same on the inside ghouls!
Posted by: Dino the Unfortunately Complexioned9168   2012-04-17 17:35  

#7  CAT house, hehe he.

Hope that isn't one of those hotel safes which go to their default setting after pressing the overcharge reset button...or are we in trouble for not inviting el prez to a coke party.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-04-17 16:45  

#6  ..they'd ask the Marines what part of town the best "escorts" were working out of.

Guess they didn't check with State for the Ted Kennedy approved establishments.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-04-17 15:29  

#5  according to a couple of my Marines that were on MSG duty in Central/South America - it was not uncommon when the secret service came to town that they'd ask the Marines what part of town the best "escorts" were working out of.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2012-04-17 15:02  

#4  Not paying off a whore? What the hell? This story has a bad end no matter who you are. She's local, you're not. Pay a hundred bucks to her or deal with the authorities - which is easier?
Posted by: gromky   2012-04-17 14:55  

#3  Not paying off a whore? What the hell? This story has a bad end no matter who you are. She's local, you're not. Pay a hundred bucks to her or deal with the authorities - which is easier?
Posted by: gromky   2012-04-17 14:55  

#2  Glenn Beck pointed out, and I agree, that this whole Secret Service thing is really peculiar (and this is the worst, but by no means only example) - what's going on? Can their professionalism have fallen off a cliff in the last few years? Why? They even maintained it through all of Hillary's abuses. Or is it some kind of sabotage? From where? If something doesn't make sense - and this doesn't - then you don't know the whole story.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-04-17 12:27  

#1  I wonder if these problems have arisen as a result of re-organization under Homeland Security instead of under the Dept. of Treasury in 2003? Or is it just a corruption and rot that has developed and spread throughout government?
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-04-17 12:03  

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