Secret Service
Should Secret Service Agents Take Polygraphs After Being Hired?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Should Secret Service agents be polygraphed after they join the agency? Ronald Kessler of Newsmax seems to suggest that. He writes that agents must take a poloygraph test to get the job. But not after that. In contrast, he reports that FBI employees are polygraphed every five years, and counterintelligence agents,…
Secret Service Dir: No Sensitive Info Compromised in Hooker-Gate
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Director of the U.S. Secret told Sen. Chuck Grassley that his agents did not compromise any sensitive information during the visit to Colombia that involved booze and hookers. “The Secret Service has no information to suggest that sensitive information was compromised during the Colombia trip,” Director Mark Sullivan wrote in…
Pres. Obama Jokes About Secret Service Scandal at Correspondence Dinner
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com At the White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday, President Obama delivered a little humor about an issue that has probably not generated a lot of laughs at the White House: The Secret Service scandal involving hookers. “I have to get the Secret Service home in time for their new curfew,” Obama…
Column: Does Secret Service Need More Rules to Make Sure Agents Don’t Hire Hookers?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would seem like common sense that if you’re a Secret Service agent and you’re on the road, you shouldn’t booze it up too much and bring prostitutes back to the hotel. Well, obviously some Secret Service agents needed a little more guidance and common sense. So after the Colombia-prostitute scandal,…
Could the Secret Service Scandal be Bigger?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just when it looked as if the Secret Service might be able to wrap up its prostitution mess sooner than later. CBS is reporting that authorities were looking into the possibility that Secret Service agents may have paid for hookers and strippers in El Salvador while being part of an advance team…
President Carter Comments on Secret Service Scandal
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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…