Federal investigators are looking into allegations that the Secret Service deviated from normal polygraphing methods in the wake of a Cartagena prostitution scandal — including claims that polygraphy experts inside the service were uncomfortable with the deviations. Read full article > >

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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

A US senator challenges claims the Secret Service sex scandal was an isolated incident, at the first congressional hearing into the affair.

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Public Service Recognition Week in early May provides a welcome relief from the embarrassments of Federal Employee Scandal Month, which was April. Although General Services Administration , Secret Service and other distractions continue to draw attention, they are offset, at least temporarily, by this week’s well-crafted events designed to demonstrate appreciation for federal and other public employees. Read full article > >

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Public Service Recognition Week provides relief from a month of scandals

Public Service Recognition Week in early May provides a welcome relief from the embarrassments of Federal Employee Scandal Month, which was April. Although General Services Administration , Secret Service and other distractions continue to draw attention, they are offset, at least temporarily, by this week’s well-crafted events designed to demonstrate appreciation for federal and other public employees. Read full article > >

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Public Service Recognition Week provides relief from a month of scandals

Public Service Recognition Week in early May provides a welcome relief from the embarrassments of Federal Employee Scandal Month, which was April. Although General Services Administration , Secret Service and other distractions continue to draw attention, they are offset, at least temporarily, by this week’s well-crafted events designed to demonstrate appreciation for federal and other public employees. Read full article > >

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A 24-year-old woman who says she is the prostitute at the center of a Secret Service scandal gave the most complete account yet of her alleged dispute over payment with an agent that led to revelations about nine Secret Service members bringing prostitutes to their rooms on a presidential business trip to Colombia. Read full article > >

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Secret Service scandal: Colombian woman describes night of carousing with agents

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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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

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

Sources also told CNN that the Secret Service agent at the center of the Colombia prostitution scandal is Arthur Huntington.

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Sources ID agent at scandal’s center

The US Secret Service tightens rules on drinking and behaviour on foreign trips, as it battles with the fallout from a sex scandal in Colombia.

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New rules for US Secret Service

The US Secret Service is looking into allegations its employees paid for strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador ahead of a presidential visit.

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New sex claim hits Secret Service

W hat happened in Cartagena, Colombia, with the Secret Service seems unsavory to me, but not for the reasons you might think. I make no judgments about men spending a night with escorts. As far as I’m concerned, those who take a holier-than-thou attitude about this are like Inspector Renault in “Casablanca” when he says he’s “shocked, shocked” to discover there is gambling at Rick’s Cafe . . . just before someone hands him his winnings. Read full article > >

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What the Secret Service could learn from drunken sailors