President Barack Obama addresses United States Secret Service Uniformed Division officers before a group photo at the South Portico of the White House, April 4, 2011. (Office White House Photo by Pete Souza) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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It’s hard to believe that the sexual misadventures of some Secret Service agents, and perhaps some soldiers, on President Barack Obama’s advance team in Columbia, is drawing so much news coverage and online chatter.
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According to The Washington Post:
The charges are triggering scrutiny of the culture of the Secret Service — where married agents have been heard to joke during aircraft takeoff that their motto is “wheels up, rings off” — and raising new questions at both the agency and the Pentagon about institutional oversight at the highest levels of the president’s security apparatus.
“We are embarrassed,” Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in a briefing at the Pentagon. “We let the boss down, because nobody is talking about what went down in Colombia other than this incident.”
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST
Our Take
Ok, but so what-because as The Washington Post also reported:
Prostitution, legal and regulated, is a booming business in the Caribbean tourist hub of Cartagena, a city of about 1 million inhabitants that is famous for its Spanish colonial heart and a modern stretch of Miami-style high-rises. As a byproduct of its lure of cruise ships and conventioneers, Cartagena draws prostitutes from both the city’s poor and upper-class echelons — as well as from different cities around the country.
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST
It’s legal! It’s regulated! But, it’s national or even international news?
Hell, a killing does not even get this much attention!!!
Please folks, give us a break, and a rest.
Let’s find, discover or if need be, make up, a real story, and move on!!!
Related Articles Around the WEB
- Secret Service clearances yanked in Colombia probe (fox13now.com)
- Military embarrassed by Colombia prostitution scandal (csmonitor.com)
- Secret Service Prostitution Scandal: President’s Safety Is Not the Point (theintelhub.com)
- Pentagon: More than 5 members of military involved in Colombia misconduct (upi.com)
- The Reason U.s Secret Service Like to Use Prostitution Service (socyberty.com)
- Secret Service agents partied at Colombian brothel (abclocal.go.com)
- Obama Responds to Secret Service Prostitution Allegations (fox2now.com)
- Dempsey: Military embarrassed by Colombia scandal (washingtontimes.com)
- 5 On Leave In Secret Service Scandal (myfoxorlando.com)
Update
CBS News reports that the Secret Service has revoked the security clearances of the agents accused in the sex scandal. SOURCE: See VIDEO Clip, Sidebar.
