More Secret Service sex secrets not-so-secret
Secret Service agents doing what they get paid to do. (AP)
You’d think the people working for the Secret Service could keep a secret, but it’s hard to keep a ribald tale quiet, it seems.
Right on the high-priced tail of the scandal down in Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine, comes word that agents in El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, have been up to no good there too.
Seattle’s KIRO TV breaks the news, saying reporter Chris Halsne has interviewed a civilian contractor who says he joined about a dozen Secret Service agents and a few U.S. military specialists at a strip club in San Salvador (the tiny nation’s capitol) a few days before President Obama and his family arrived in March 2011. The president was visiting to meet El Salvador’s new president, Mauricio Funes.
A spokesman for the Secret Service, Edwin Donovan, said the agency was investigating the new allegations.
Agents were “heavily intoxicated” (aka “wasted”) at the strip club and paid to enter a VIP area “where they were provided a number of sexual favors in return for their cash.”
The unidentified source also said agents bragged they took strippers to hotel rooms “all of the time.”
To confirm the story, Halsne traveled to El Salvador and spoke with the strip club owner, who said agents were there at least three nights in a row prior to Obama’s arrival.
“No surprise to me,” the owner told Halsne, adding his club routinely takes care of high-ranking employees of the U.S. embassy in San Salvador as well as visiting FBI and DEA agents.
The El Salvador trip occurred about one year before the president’s trip to Colombia. Prostitution is legal in both countries.
The Washington Post earlier this week cited unnamed “confidants” of the Secret Service officers implicated in the Colombia scandal saying senior managers tolerated similar behavior during official trips. It described a visit to Buenos Aires in 2009 by former President Bill Clinton, whose protective detail it said included agents and uniformed officers. During that trip, the Post said, members of the detail went out for a late night of partying at strip clubs.
In related news, a Brazilian prostitute plans to sue the U.S. Embassy and three Marines for allegedly shoving her out of a moving van. Romilda Aparecida Ferreira, described by her attorney as a “sex professional and dancer,” says she broke her collarbone, two ribs and punctured a lung in the Dec. 29, 2011, incident.
WSB-TV will air a version of the KIRO-TV report at 5 p.m.
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Disbott3000
April 26th, 2012
12:49 pm
MyPatootie, you are a jackass for politicizing this. How is it Obama’s fault that Secret Service agents like to unwind with booze and hookers? If this allegation is true, then it suggests that this is behavior that is systemic and has been going on for many, many years, probably (shock!) even under the leadership of republican presidents. If we can prove it started under Nixon, will you then pin the whole thing on him? How about if it’s Reagan? Of course not, because it doesn’t suit your political agenda.
Tell you what though. If anyone ever produces hard, credible evidence that Obama joined them for a prostitute party, or even just gave agents his permission to act like frat boys on spring break, then I will be happy to issue you an apology. Otherwise, for the love of God, stop blaming Obama for every damn thing that happens in the universe.
Disbott3000
April 26th, 2012
12:51 pm
Leave it to a tea party member to not be able to spell “tYpical” or even “libEral”. I think I hear banjo music.
Tea Party Meber
April 26th, 2012
1:03 pm
What does music have 2 do with anythig?
A Conservative Voice
April 26th, 2012
1:23 pm
@Disbott3000
April 26th, 2012
12:49 pm
Tell you what though. If anyone ever produces hard, credible evidence that Obama joined them for a prostitute party, or even just gave agents his permission to act like frat boys on spring break, then I will be happy to issue you an apology. Otherwise, for the love of God, stop blaming Obama for every damn thing that happens in the universe.
Disbott3000 – He’s the “Leader” (I hate using that term when referring to him)……he’s “responsible”, therefore, it’s HIS FAULT. You know what?, truth be known, he knows all about all these incidents but, like everything else, he keeps it tightly guarded and will not say anything about it because it might make “our glorious leader” look bad.
justintime
April 26th, 2012
1:24 pm
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WAR EAGLE
April 26th, 2012
1:25 pm
They were there to ensure Obama’s entertainment was lined up. We have the liberal media reporting on things that noone cares about, yet there is a mad man in Iran trying to duplicate 1936 and the Waffle House Occupant has no idea how to organize a welcome to the jungle party for him and keep the world safe from radical towelheadism. It’s the ECONOMY, Stupid!
Fee Snead
April 26th, 2012
1:29 pm
Do you REALLY think this is the first time this has happended? Come on ladies and gentleman, let’s all get a reality check here…men (and women) will be who they are, where ever they are. Secret Service men, the President, you, me; we are no different than the next person– we are all human and we all fall short of being perfect….very short I might add. No one will ever be perfect! Get over it…NEXT!
Sid Vicious
April 26th, 2012
1:33 pm
And this is news why? Jane’s Addiction said it best with there album titled “Nothings Shocking”…And that was ages ago….
secret service tenures
April 26th, 2012
1:45 pm
many of these agents have been on this job for years and years. somehow, I don’t think that this behavior is new. they just happened to get caught on obama’s watch
GRS
April 26th, 2012
2:06 pm
This is what happens when government officials believe they are above the law they are suppose to enforce. There is no mention of this, but I bet there were also drugs involved. I am sure this behavior of the Secret Service, FBI, and DEA did not just begin with the current Presidency. However, I do believe the current President will ensure swift corrective action and accountability.