Secret Service Agents Dismissed in Colombia, Scandal Erupts Over Alleged Prostitution Use » Gossip

A dozen Secret Service agents accept been removed from their posts in Colombia, U.S. admiral confirm, afterward incidents of "misconduct" that sources say chronicle to at atomic one abnegation to pay a prostitute for her services.

The agents were stationed in that country advanced of President Obama's accession for the Summit of the Americas, which started today.

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Secret Service abettor Ed Donovan has not yet appear the attributes of the allegations that resulted in replacing these agents with new ones, admitting assembly acquaint The Washington Post that at atomic one abettor solicited a prostitute - the act is acknowledged in assertive Colombian areas - who again went to the badge back she was not paid.

None of those adequate of assignment was a affiliate of the President's aegis detail.

Ronald Kessler, the columnist of "In the President's Service" and a above anchorman for The Washington Post, told CBS News this represents "the better aspersion in Secret Service history" and marks a "tremendous embarrassment to the U.S."