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April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
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UPDATE: Congress leaders, top Obama adviser say Secret Service must act firmly to fix scandal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of a House committee investigating the alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal is predicting more firings, but lawmakers and President Barack Obama’s top campaign adviser are expressing confidence that the agency will effectively deal with the incident.
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King says “every possible lead is being examined” in the case. King says he’s baffled by the alleged behavior, telling NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “What they were thinking is beyond me.”
So far, six agents have lost their jobs while another six are being investigated along with 11 members of the military.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says she wonders whether having more female agents as part of the Secret Service team in Colombia might have kept the incident from taking place.
See the full article from “NECN”
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of a House committee investigating an alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings as key lawmakers and President Barack Obama’s top re-election adviser expressed confidence Sunday that the agency will effectively deal with the incident.
“Every possible lead is being examined,” said Rep. Peter King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee. King, R-N.Y., said he expected that in the “near future, several other” members of the Secret Service will leave.
“What they were thinking is beyond me,” King told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
So far, six agents have lost their jobs. They were among agents pulled from duty in Cartagena, Colombia, after allegations that the men brought prostitutes back to their hotel. The incident occurred this month shortly before Obama arrived for a meeting of regional presidents.
See the full article from “Plain Dealer”
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
WASHINGTON — For an agency that has long been known as a “good ol’ boys” club, the prostitution scandal involving 11 members of the Secret Service has dredged up an image that the agency appeared to have moved beyond.
While the Secret Service cultivated a reputation as the ramrod-straight, and straitlaced, protectors of the president — the Clint Eastwood look-alikes willing to take a bullet for their country — it was dogged by unwelcome scrutiny of misconduct. Agents were disciplined or prosecuted for sex with underage women, drunken driving, barroom brawls, drug use and other off-duty problems that called into question their professional fitness.
But over the past decade, there have been fewer salacious headlines about the agency and a sense that its culture had changed, in part because it had more women employed. Now, the Secret Service faces an embarrassing scandal over allegations of misconduct involving prostitution in Cartagena, Colombia.
See the full article from “TheChronicleHerald.ca”
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
The senator also said the White House should be aggressively looking at whether any of its advance personnel was caught up in the scandal.
When it comes to protecting the president and ensuring the continuity of government, it is important to ask every possible question about what happened and what could be done to stop the behavior, Lieberman said.
He said he didn’t want agents spending a lot of time drinking bottles of vodka and carousing with women before they go on duty to protect the president. He noted that a rule now forbids agents from using intoxicants six hours before going on duty.
Six agents have been forced out of the agency in the wake of the scandal involving U.S. security and military personnel and Colombian prostitutes leading up to the president’s trip to Colombia earlier this month.
See the full article from “Orlando Sentinel”
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
WASHINGTON — The chairman of a House committee investigating an alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings as key lawmakers and President Barack Obama’s top re-election adviser expressed confidence Sunday that the agency will effectively deal with the incident.
“Every possible lead is being examined,” said Rep. Peter King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee. King, R-N.Y., said he expected that in the “near future, several other” members of the Secret Service will leave.
See the full article from “Washington Post”
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
So this practice is associated with more “conservative” parts of the nation, yet it was specifically opposed by the Taliban. Last time I heard, the Taliban era was generally known as a time when Afghanistan was controlled by a very, very conservative approach to Islam.
Once again, readers are told that the radical, conservative Taliban whipped out this practice in “conservative” parts of the nation, until the bacha bazi then reemerged in the era linked to the arrival of U.S. and Western forces?
I am not sure that the word “conservative” has much meaning when used in this manner. So Islamic conservatives (or is that culturally conservative Afghan Muslims) were in favor of the prostitution of young males? I want to hear that explained in greater depth, somehow. Like I said earlier, I realize that this would have been a dangerous line of questioning.
See the full article from “GetReligion”
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
Faced with a tough primary re-election battle with a fellow incumbent Democrat, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-8th Dist.) has reached into his election bag of tricks and pulled out the one he hopes will turn it all around — the tea party.
No, the congressman isn’t running with the tea party; he’s running against it. And that could make the difference for him. Gone are the days when the tea party hoped to be a bridge between the parties of those fed up with “politics as usual.” Nowadays, the tea party is viewed by many voters — especially swing voters — as angry, divisive, partisan and, in some instances, racist.
It’s not hard to see why. Tea party websites post representations of President Obama as a ghetto pimp. E-mails compare the first lady to a chimpanzee. Until recently, one website had a whole section devoted to “racial issues.” And while most tea party members steer clear of this, some of the biggest mouths in the movement promote it.
See the full article from “The Star-Ledger – NJ.com (blog)”
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
WASHINGTON (AP) — It isn’t Mitt Romney who’s giving Barack Obama fits as the president moves into re-election mode. It’s those federal bureaucrats carousing in Las Vegas, the Secret Service consorting with Colombian prostitutes and U.S. soldiers posing with bloody enemy corpses.
The scandals are taking a toll. They are distracting embarrassments that are dominating public attention while Obama seeks to focus on difficulties abroad and jobs at home. And they are giving Republicans an opportunity to question his competence and leadership, an opening for Romney in a race so close that any advantage might make a difference.
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Romney this week was more nuanced about the Secret Service, which is also providing security for him on the campaign trail. He urged firing Secret Service employees caught in the incident involving prostitutes but said he had confidence in the response by agency Director Mark Sullivan, whose swift action on the agents and uniformed officers suspected of wrongdoing won praise from other Republicans.
See the full article from “Jefferson City News Tribune”
April 20, 2012 at 12:25 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
The seeds of this scandal were sown a few days before President Obama visited the Caribbean resort town of Cartagena, Colombia to attend and speak at the Summit of the Americas. About a dozen members of the Secret Service advance team decided to party at a local club, and the festivities apparently continued into the next morning at the hotel where the agents were staying. A dispute over how much money was owed one of the party girls apparently was the spark that ignited the scandal’s flame, which has now led to at least three agents leaving the Service, and perhaps more departures in the offing.
Certainly this is a major problem for the Secret Service. In the first place, such conduct clearly compromises the men involved. More important to the work of this 147-year-old law enforcement agency, however, the scandal raises serious questions about the training received by and the judgment exercised by Secret Service special agents, particularly those on presidential details. (For example, did these trained security experts not realize hotel video cameras would record the comings and goings of them and their female escorts?)
See the full article from “Daily Caller”
April 18, 2012 at 5:01 pm · Filed under Baltimore escorts
Explaining why he was calling a mistrial, the judge said, “Because if this man got convicted, from my perspective, knowing how I sentence, he goes to jail. And I’m not going to, under the circumstances, when this has happened, put this man’s liberty in jeopardy. He’s entitled to a fair trial; in my view, he can’t get it now. And that was caused by the government.”
Under U.S. sentencing guidelines, Clemens probably would face up to 15 months to 21 months in prison.
The prosecutors from last year’s trial, Steven Durham and Daniel Butler, are returning for the retrial.
Durham, chief of the public corruption unit at the U.S. attorney’s office, also prosecuted baseball player Miguel Tejada. In that case, Tejada pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of misleading congressional investigators who questioned him about steroids. Butler, who also works in the public corruption unit, successfully prosecuted the case of “D.C. madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who ran an escort service that catered to high-profile clients, including Sen. David Vitter, R-La.
See the full article from “Maximum Edge”
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