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Confidants: Secret Service Agents Contend Misbehavior on Trips Not Unprecedented
By Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Some Secret Service employees accused of misconduct in the Colombian prostitution scandal are privately contending that their conduct didn’t warrant dismissal because senior managers tolerated similar behavior during official trips, according to people familiar with the employees’ thinking. Several of the men who…