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’

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is using a sex trafficking law to redefine its approach, treating women who work for ringleaders as victims and not criminals.

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Manhattan Prosecutors Focus on Pimps Instead of Prostitutes

New restrictions came two weeks after the Secret Service began investigating the activities of 12 agents and officers on a trip with the president to Colombia.

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Secret Service Tightens Rules for Employees Traveling Abroad

New York City gives people condoms, while the police confiscate them from those most vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases.

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About New York: In New York City, Giving Away, and Taking Away, Condoms

The US Secret Service says three more employees are resigning over the prostitution scandal at an international summit in Colombia last weekend.

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Colombia scandal claims more jobs

The dismissals would raise to five the number of members of the Secret Service forced out in the prostitution case.

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Secret Service to Dismiss 2 More in Scandal, Official Says

Investigators are searching for as many as 21 women who are believed to include prostitutes and to have spent the night with a group of security officers.

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Secret Service Inquiries Trace Women in Colombia

Allegations of misconduct while on assignment in Colombia have brought renewed scrutiny to an agency that thought it had shed its “good ol’ boys” reputation.

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Secret Service Faces New Scandal After Working to Improve Image

Though Spain’s economy is struggling, prostitution is booming, exploding into public view in cities and towns.

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Women Enslaved by Spain’s Brothel Tourism Boom

In arguing to maintain high bail, a prosecutor said wealthy clients of Anna Gristina may have “an interest in not allowing this case to go forward” and could help her flee.

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Woman Charged as Madam Has Powerful Ties, Prosecutor Tells Judge

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody in connection with an investigation into an alleged prostitution ring operating in France and Belgium.

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French Police Detain Dominique Strauss-Kahn for Questioning

Every few years, some pundit or politician rekindles the debate over legalizing prostitution, but now author Ronald Weitzer has offered one of the most persuasive arguments against criminalization. Summarized in a Salon interview, Weitzer’s book Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business argues that current laws simply force the sex economy underground—placing hookers in greater danger. And he doesn’t buy the argument that prostitution should remain illegal because it results in violence. “We know that domestic violence happens between husbands and wives, but nobody’s arguing to criminalize marriage.”

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It’s Time to Legalize Prostitution!

Senator Harry Reid suggested Nevada close its brothels, but state officials prefer to leave the issue to local leaders.

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A New Discussion About a Profession That Isn’t

Prosecutors filed a request on Wednesday to try Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy on criminal charges related to prostitution and abuse of office.

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Prosecutors Seek Immediate Trial in Berlusconi Sex Case