Obama informed when the scandal is the secret

Obama informed when the scandal is the secret

21st April 2012

By Ken Thomas and Alicia A. CALDWELL Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) – A week after the scandal began unfolding in prostitution Secret Service in the hallway of a hotel in Columbia, six officers have lost their jobs and hundreds of people were interviewed.

the agency said Friday that three officers had resigned, two days after the supervisor and another officer were forced out. Director Mark Sullivan, President Barack Obama in the Oval Office informed about the latest developments.

It began thus, a discussion about the payment of a Secret Service agent and a Colombian prostitutes in the lobby of the Hotel Caribe paid, where a contingent of policemen and soldiers should be considered as part of a security detail for President to stay ahead of the weekend is The last Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

A government official said the study, said that more than 200 people have been interviewed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation.

On Friday, Senator Chuc k Grassley, R-Iowa, broader investigation, including records of inspection for Hotel White House urged advance employee communications and staff who were in Cartagena summit.

In a letter to Sullivan and Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security, Grassley asked whether the records had for hotel members of the White House under investigation were drawn.

The scandal, which is now 12 employees and 11 members of military intelligence, has become a political issue.

Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, after pictures from Facebook profile ousted weighed Secret Service supervisor David Chaney created.

He joked about “really his check-out” to a friend post a photo of Palin, with Chaney are in the background during the 2008 campaign.

Palin told Fox News that joke was on Chaney. “Well, check this out, man – you’re fired!” Palin said. He said the scandal was a sign of “gover nment run amok.”

Obama’s spokesman said it was “absurd to politicize” the situation and said that Obama would be angry if the allegations have been published so far proven to be true.

The accident in Colombia, where at least get to a part of the secret service, the prostitutes, their hotel room. Versed

The news of the accident in which at least 20 Colombian women, broke a week ago after a dispute over payment between a prostitute and a Secret Service agent in the hotel hallway. At age 24, told Colombian prostitutes of the New York Times that the agent has agreed to pay her $ 800 for a night of sex, but the next morning he offered her only $ 30. Then he left the hotel, told the newspaper after he was paid $ 225.

have examined all agents had their licenses top secret.

L cancel ‘Greg Chaney Attorney Stokes superiors and colleagues said Obama’s safety was never in danger and criticized leaks of internal government investigations into the case, suggesting a possible strategy for an upcoming legal defense.

Chaney and Stokes were forced to leave Wednesday. A third agent, who was not identified, and was not a supervisor, they resigned.

— Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan, Laurie Kellman, Robert Burns, Larry Margasak, Julie Pace, A nne white elephant in Washington contributed Nomaan dealer in Dallas and Frank Bajak in Cartagena, Colombia, on the report.

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