Colombian prostitute calls the cops on the American Secret Service

[Enrique]

I think this is pretty interesting. This makes it seem like prostitutes in Colombia actually have rights. Don't get me wrong, Colombia is no paradise for human rights, and I'm sure being a prostitute there is no picnic, but I found this interesting.

]http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_162-57414068/secret-service-supervisor-in-prostitute-scandal/

(CBS News) Members of the president's Secret Service detail, including a supervisor, are in what looks to be some pretty hot water.

At least one United States Secret Service agent is alleged to have sought the services of a prostitute in Cartagena, Colombia, where President Obama is visiting for the Summit of the Americas. CBS News has learned that one of the agents allegedly involved with the prostitute is a supervisor of the Counter Terror Assault Team (CAT).

The CAT team is responsible for advance planning and response and is not part of the president's protective detail.

A source in the Secret Service tells CBS News that one or more of the officers were involved with prostitutes and that there was a dispute over payment. One prostitute went to the police, who notified the State Department. The agents stayed at Hotel Caribe, where the international press is staying.

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[HiPointDem]

1. the other thing it could mean is that both prostitutes & police are connected to crime syndicates

esp. prostitutes working high-class venues.

[Tx4obama]

2. Prostitution is legal in parts of Columbia.

So, I would guess is if a person doesn't pay their bill then that person would be guilty of a crime.

[DiverDave]

3. SO he stiffed her?

I'm sorry, I couldnt help it.

[monmouth]

4. Oh gawd, hang your head...Bwahahaha...n/t

[MrScorpio]

5. Ugly American syndrome

I've seen this far too much with the way the American men treat sex workers overseas… This is best explanation that I could fathom.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

6. What bothers me is men with this lack

of principles are responsible for Obama's safety. They do not sound like men
that would take a bullet for the President.

I just saw an interview with Jackie Kennedy's body guard, the man that climbed
on the car to get to her that awful day. One of the most principled human beings
that till this day beats himself up for not having done more.

Obama is always out there shaking hands, hugging supporters, he is totally in the
moment and I demand he be protected with the best of the best. If all this is true
these guys need to be dismissed.

[Mimosa]

11. About JFK's Secret Service detail....God forbid Obama having similar agents.

Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent who jumped onto the Presidential limo. He was an exception among the agents. The agent in Lancer's (JFK's S.S. code name) car did nothing to protect the president. Unaccountably the Secret Service driver defied defensive driving protocol by slowing down to a near stop when the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza.

Abraham Bolden, the first black Secret Service agent, had been personally chosen by President Kennedy to serve on his detail. Bolden quit the detail after 3 months. It's an interesting story:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbolden.htm

Bolden spent only three months working for Kennedy. He complained about the "separate housing facilities for black agents on southern trips". At a meeting with James J. Rowley, the head of the Secret Service, Bolden criticized the "general laxity and the heavy drinking among the agents who were assigned to protect the President". As a result of these complaints, Bolden was sent back to the Chicago office and assigned to routine anti-counterfeiting duties.

Bolden claimed that in October, 1963, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that an attempt would be made to kill President John F. Kennedy by a four-man Cuban hit squad when he visited the city on 2nd November. Armed with high-powered rifles, the men from "a dissident Cuban group". According to investigative journalist Edwin Black, the Secret Service arrested two suspects, however, they were eventually released.

Abraham Bolden later discovered that this information was being kept from the Warren Commission. When he complained about this he was warned "to keep his mouth shut". Bolden decided to travel to Washington where he telephoned Warren Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin. Bolden was arrested and taken back to Chicago where he was charged with discussing a bribe with two known counterfeiters. He was eventually found guilty of accepting a bribe and spent six years in prison. When he tried to draw attention to his case, he was placed in solitary confinement.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

12. I had never heard this story.

I'm just appalled by the injustice. Read the following on Wikipedia...

"In January 1978, Abraham Bolden gave testimony on his experiences as an agent with the Secret Service to investigators of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U. S. House of Representatives. The Final Report of that Committee, released in March 1979 included these conclusions: "The Secret Service possessed information that was not properly analyzed, investigated, or used by the Secret Service in connection with the president's trip to Dallas; in addition, Secret Service agents in the motorcade were inadequately prepared to protect the president from a sniper." National Archives of the United States."

He also wrote a book in 2008.

Thanx.

[warrior1]

7. I hope all involve

lose their jobs.

[Renew Deal]

8. Did the State department pay the bill?

What a crazy story.

[Enrique]

10. yes, but Hillary had to review a detailed list of charges first

[dogknob]

9. I see a group of young women getting snuffed in the near future...

"National Security" and such...