Colombia Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Spreads to the DEA

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News

Colombia Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Spreads to the DEA
By PIERRE THOMAS and JASON RYAN | ABC News – 8 hrs ago...

A month after the Secret Service was rocked by allegations that agents brought prostitutes to a Colombia hotel where they were preparing for a visit by President Obama, the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that at least three of its agents are also under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena.

Two of the agents allegedly had encounters with masseuses in the apartment of one of the agents, according to Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

"It's disturbing that we may be uncovering a troubling culture that spans more than one law enforcement agency," the Maine Republican said this evening. "In addition to the Secret Service scandal, we now learn that at least two DEA agents apparently entertained female foreign national masseuses in the Cartagena apartment of one of the agents. The evidence uncovered thus far indicates that this likely was not just a one-time incident."

The revelations that Secret Service personnel had been drinking heavily and cavorting with prostitutes ahead of Obama's trip to Colombia last month overshadowed the president's trip to the Summit of the Americas. Twelve members of the military were also investgated for allegedly hiring prostitutes.

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[cstanleytech]

1. 5 dollars on them trying to blame it all on Obama. nt

[aquart]

2. I never thought of Cartagena as a party town.

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. You must be the only one.

Guys lining up to sell you eightballs of cocaine for $10.

[aquart]

12. I lead a sheltered, innocent life.

So, Cartagena is sin city?

[99th_Monkey]

3. If one is not a "friend" of the CIA-run drug, guns, human trafficking

one needs to be careful. Hell, I have no doubt whatsoever
that these SS and DEA officials tend to party a bit much at
taxpayer expense; but I doubt that this is really "new" in
any meaningful sense.

Which makes me wonder: why now is it all of a sudden
"newsworthy"?

[DCKit]

4. In case you hadn't heard, there's a scary Black Democrat in the WH.

It was inevitable that our most revered institutions and the honorable men and women who work to defend corporate America would go down.

[99th_Monkey]

13. Actually I did notice

Voted him in, and will again in a few months.

It does trouble me that this kind of selective leaking to the press
about stuff like this seems like it may create riffs within the
security apparatus, which may make them less effective at what
they are hired to do..

[DCKit]

14. Engineered to provide an excuse to call Obama (and every other Democrat) incompetent...

on National Security issues. I'd take hookers in their hotel rooms any day over planes flying into skyscrapers, but that's my opinion. That said, the MICC is only interested in growing itself and consuming an ever larger share of the U.S. budget.

If the NeoCon chicken hawks can take over the House, Senate and pResidency, the spigot from our (and our great-great grandchildren's) pocketbooks is ensured to be wide open. If they also have to sacrifice a few pawns along the way while engineering favorable public opinion for a Republican takeover, then so be it. There are hundreds of billions to be made every single year if they can keep U.S. at war.

[secondwind]

5. I agree.

[lunatica]

6. nail/hammer question there

You nailed it with that question

[Beacool]

7. None of this would have come to light if the SS agent had paid

the prostitute the accorded amount. He blew it for the rest of them. Who knows how many years this had been going on. While they are at it, Congress should investigate itself. If I remember correctly, some of them also frequented hookers (Vitter comes to mind).

[truthisfreedom]

8. Where? What?

Why do I always miss out on all the fun?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. Does anyone believe that all of this behavior was limited to Columbia?

I don't.

[bemildred]

11. Sure makes me glad that Obama, at least, knows to keep his pecker in his pants. nt