When Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan appeared before a Senate committee investigating the Colombia prostitution scandal, he cited an employee survey and said that nearly 60 percent of the agency’s workers indicated they would report unethical behavior. Read full article > >

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Not everyone is comfortable reporting unethical behavior, survey indicates

The Secret Circus may soon be looking for a new ringmaster. The prostitution scandal involving a dozen Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia, is spreading into a broader burlesque for the agency, furthered by a Washington Post report that tolerance of a frat-house culture has induced some employees to come up with the “Secret Circus” name. Read full article > >

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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan sees no cause for alarm

Mark Sullivan said there was not a breach of national security because agents didn’t have specifics about the president’s Colombia trip.

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Secret Service Chief Testifies About Scandal

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told a Senate committee Wednesday that the prostitution scandal in Colombia caused no security breach and steps have been taken to prevent a similar episode.

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Secret Service agents ‘reckless’

A bomb is found hidden in a lamp at a theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ahead of a speech to be given there by Colombian ex-President Alvaro Uribe.

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Bomb ‘targets Colombia ex-leader’

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan plans to present a strong defense of his staff at a Senate hearing Wednesday while outlining steps to prevent a reoccurrence of the agency’s prostitution scandal in April. Read full article > >

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Secret Service director plans to defend agency and outline code of conduct

Three Drug Enforcement Administration agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, a congressional source confirms to CNN.

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Prostitution investigation for DEA agents

Colombian officials say left-wing Farc rebels have killed 12 soldiers during a patrol in a remote rural area near the sensitive border with Venezuela.

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Farc kills 12 Colombian soldiers

Medellín, Colombia, once famed for murder and cocaine, is now drawing notice for its ambitious urban projects, many aimed at easing life in the city’s slums.

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Architecture Review: Fighting Crime With Architecture in Medellín, Colombia

Dispersed to nearby towns and cities, Gramalote, Colombia, residents are slowly returning to the devastated town, to live among the ruins or at least in sight of them.

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Gramalote Journal: Residents Trickle Back to Ruins of Gramalote, Colombia

Colombian officials dismiss demands made by Farc rebels believed to be holding a French journalist in exchange for his release.

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‘No deal’ with Farc on journalist

Three of the 12 Secret Service agents involved in the Colombia prostitution scandal refused to cooperate with authorities and submit to a polygraph test, an official says.

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3 Secret Service agents reject polygraph

With so much news about federal employees on the wild at a casino hotel outside Las Vegas and with prostitutes in Colombia, it’s a pleasure to learn about public servants who are more reflective of the whole. Read full article > >

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Award winners save federal government billions

U.S. Secret Service personnel tied to last month’s night of heavy drinking, partying and sexual encounters in Cartagena, Colombia paid 10 of the 12 women they became involved with, officials said. None of the women were found to be connected to terrorist organizations or drug cartels. Read full article > >

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Secret Service employees paid 10 of the 12 women involved in Colombia sex scandal, agency says

So far, the biggest scandal in the history of the Secret Service involves agents hiring prostitutes in Colombia . But the media have largely ignored a much bigger scandal at the agency: a lax management culture that condones cutting corners, directly endangering the life of the president. Read full article > >

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Secret Service problems much bigger than prostitutes