More Secret Service resignations expected this week

(CBS News) United States Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has told members of Congress that he expects more resignations from agents involved in the Colombian prostitution scandal by the end of the week, according to a congressional staffer with knowledge of the investigation.

One day after Sullivan announced that three agents involved, including two supervisors, would be leaving the service, investigation of the remaining eight agents continues.

Polygraph tests have been conducted on the agents allegedly involved all week and will continue today and tomorrow. If they fail those tests, the agents would lose their security clearance which would bar them from the Secret Service completely. For the agents who do pass the tests, according to aides, Sullivan has said that the service is taking all the appropriate steps so they can make personnel decisions based on the law, but that ethics and standards are very important to the agency and the agents' actions reflect poorly on them all. According to Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the agents are all also undergoing drug testing.

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The raucous party involving 11 secret service agents, 10 defense personnel and over multiple women, including prostitutes, occurred just over one week ago. The women had to check in at the hotel where the agents were staying and provide identification. A congressional staffer briefed on the matter said the Secret Service has copies of the IDs which show the women were all of age. King said identification cards showed that the youngest woman was 20 years old.

According to the staffer, one agent involved in an altercation with a prostitute over payment did not realize there was payment involved or that the woman was a prostitute. Some of the agents, however, knew that the women were prostitutes, had sex with them and paid for the sex.

Members have asked whether similar incidents have occurred in the past. According to the staffer briefed on the matter, the Secret Service is being careful not to say it's never happened, but nothing similar has ever been reported to the Office of Professional Responsibility, which is responsible for investigating charges of misconduct by agents.

Director Sullivan was made aware of the scandal one week ago and immediately recalled the agents to Miami. They were placed on administrative leave Saturday and had their security clearances suspended on Monday.

No congressional hearings have yet been scheduled specifically addressing the scandal, but numerous congressional committees are investigating the matter.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the chair and ranking member respectively on House Oversight and Government Reform, wrote to Sullivan yesterday to ask for information on the investigation, including a timeline of events, a summary of any disciplinary action taken against any of the agents since 2002 and a description of all involved in this scandal. The letter tells Sullivan that "your task is to restore the world's confidence in the Secret Service."

[BlameRepublicanz]

While Romney is running around seeking the endorsements of the king birther and the motor city terrorist...Obama is doing the will of the American people

[cbsnews_viewer]

Hell, yes this is a Scandal!
Potentially Dangerous? Very , Obviously.
There is a allegations from a hotel worker of cocaine use *. May I remind you that a Colombian presidential candidate was
assassinated years ago. ' Wall Street Journal suggesting there is a larger cultural problem at the agency known as "Wheels down, rings off."'
**

*(http://abcnews.go.com/WN/secret-service-agents-forced-amid-prostitution-investigation/story?id=16164647&page=2)
**(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartagena,_Colombia#United_States_Secret_Service_prostitution_scandal)

[Jaylah54]

"According to the staffer, one agent involved in an altercation with a prostitute over payment did not realize there was payment involved or that the woman was a prostitute."

Hello????

What????

He assumed she wanted to go back to his room and have sex with him because....

She liked his tie?

She found his conversation so witty and charming?

[PoliticalSudoku]

Read "No Security Clearance for Granny" at www.nutshell-express.com

[law90807013f]

"one agent involved in an altercation with a prostitute over payment did not realize there was payment involved or that the woman was a prostitute"

It's the guy who wanted free sex from women of 3rd world country making us/US look bad.

[sayso3]

Nobody does it better. Although sometimes I wish they would. Nobody does it half as good as you. USSS agents you're the best.

[sayso3]

(from "The Spy Who Loved Me")

[PDonalds]

Routine re-screening, including polygraphs to help fight and prevent misconduct and corruption. Police officers, agents, and the military would think twice before breaking laws or rules of conduct. http://t.co/rv9CwYeR

[wlhoppers]

I don't believe they should be allowed to resign - that would be tantamount to exoneration. If they were involved they should be fired. They signed up to protect the US President and the integrity of the office. It doesn't matter whether they were off duty or not.

They failed the president and they failed their country.

[Anthonomus]

The Secret Service has its own secret service apparently. Fleas have fleas ad infinitum, so to speak. This must be a treasure trove for late-night comedy. I mean what else do you expect from a bunch of men willing to take a bullet for someone they may or may not have voted for. If I was the Director I would demand that in the future, the agents pay up front so as not to get him into hot water again. Don Rumsfeld probably called Sullivan and told him he should be thankful that the agents didn't post pictures. And he should know, photos bring the blame up a couple of levels, though not quite to the top, where it should reside.

[nygiants1]

This doesn't bother me nearly as much as Jeff Neely and the GSA group.

Checkout these additional photos discovered of Jeff Neely and his expensive partying in Vegas. Pretty funny!

http://cubetitans.com/new-photos-released-of-gsas-jeff-neely-in-vegas/?slide=1