Asked about the scandal that overshadowed the president’s trip to Colombia for the Summit of the Americas, President Obama noted the majority of Secret Service agents do a great job protecting him and his family.
There was also a sense of indignation. “It’s pretty clear that they want to treat Latin America as a brothel,” the Colombian newsmagazine Semana quoted one tweet as saying about the U.S. agents.
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She unwittingly thrust the Secret Service into the spotlight and left the government red-faced after it emerged that 11 agents spent a wild night out in Colombia with prostitutes.
Now, Dania Londono Suarez, the woman who caused the furore after one agent refused to pay up, could be ready to tell all, in what would only cause more embarrassment for those involved.
Her lawyer, Marlon Betancourt, is said to negotiating interviews with her with various media outlets for money.
It certainly would be an eye-opening, must-see interview.
This news comes on the back of reports that the scandal, which exploded into the public domain a little more than a week ago, continues to grow with another agent been thrown into the mix.
Six of the 11 agents implicated in the scandal are now out of a job, and the investigation is entering its second week amid new revelations about a prostitute being taken to a sensitive location.
“It just gets more troubling,” Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday.
Five nights before the president’s arrival, a twelfth Secret Service official, who was not previously under investigation, allegedly brought a prostitute to the Hilton Hotel in Cartegena, the hotel where the president later stayed.
“The key thing here is not that they were prostitutes,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s the fact that foreign nationals were brought back into a security area on the eve of the trip of the president of the United States goes against everything the Secret Service stands for.”
Another interesting point of note, that this is probably not the first time that something like this occurred. More likely, it’s just the first time that the public has ever had any knowledge of the Secret Service’s wrongdoings.
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Unfortunately, for the town of Cartagena, much attention has been brought upon them for all the wrong reasons. This region in Colombia will go down in history for the unraveling of the American Secret Service.
According to new reports, getting an escort in this town, if you have money, is like picking up the phone and calling room service.
Here’s some new facts coming out of Cartagena…
Underage prostitution is rampant in the sinful seaside city, where finding illicit companionship is literally a walk on the beach.
Visitors to Cartagena, including the agents and U.S. servicemen embroiled in the salacious scandal, simply have to visit one of its seedy shorelines, where they will almost certainly be approached by a “fixer.”
“Anything you need, amigo,” said one such carnal concierge, Ramon Morales, who slyly eyed nighttime strollers. “Beer, cigarettes, girls. I can get you girls.”
Morales said the Americans on President Obama’s advance team made quite a splash before the scandal broke.
“They were partying at the beach,” said Morales, 34, with a grin that was missing several teeth. “They were having a good time with the girls, drinking.”
Morales said extra ladies were ordered up like room service when those at the Pley Club weren’t enough to meet the Americans’ demands.
“They were tall and strong,” said Morales, 34. “Lots of muscle. We got a few cab drivers to bring them girls.”
Hookers can also be easily found in bars or clubs, sometimes with the establishment getting a cut of the john’s fee.
“There are many ways to find us,” said one woman, 21-year-old Rebecca, who worked at Angeles, a dingy bar in the city’s El Bosque neighborhood.
“The guys have to pay a fee to take us out of the bar,” she said. “We feel pretty safe.”
Hotel staffers also almost always turn a blind eye to the hookers that parade up to guests’ rooms.
“Americans are shocked that these guys took girls into their rooms, even if it’s fancy like Hotel Caribe,” said a Cartagena cop patrolling outside the hotel. “This is every day here.”
“There are so many ways to getting girls into the room,” said Alejandra, 24, who works at the Dolce Vita Hotel. “Some of us walk the beach at nights to meet guys. Or the cabs call us. The tourists come here for us.”
The Latin American summit, which drew dozens of world leaders and their entourages, was a particularly good time for business, according to sex workers.
“When the city has big events, they (the pimps) bring girls in buses to the city so they can walk around,” said Morales. “That way the town looks better, sexier. These (guys) knew that we could get them girls.”
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It’s a scandal that has all the makings of a blockbuster movie: Sex, drugs, and….escorts.
Today we revealed more photos of Dania Londono Suarez, the woman who found herself on the front page of every publication around the world, after she was identified as the person who essentially brought down Obama’s Secret Service after a wild night out in Columbia.
Is she too blame? Hardly? The big rich fat cats whose wallets were bulging with American dollars, who were married, got their just deserts. And, it was down to the lone ranger, who refused to pay the standard rate, whose blame for the most embarrassing Secret Service Scandal in history rests firmly on his shoulders.
Tomorrow, we will examine this more, but we found this article below rather bewildering…. we would like to know what you think.
(CNN) – So a bunch of guys away from home, who should know better, take off their wedding rings, mix testosterone with alcohol and hookers — an appalling combination — argue over the price of a lady’s company and, all of a sudden, the entire culture of the U.S. Secret Service is thrown into question.
All of a sudden, this is the worst disaster for the Secret Service, ever. All of a sudden, the Secret Service is out of control. All of a sudden, anything might have happened, like one of the 11 agents could have been blackmailed to open a door for a sniper or to look the other way as a bomb-carrying terrorist walks up to the president.
All of a sudden, the men and women of the Secret Service are no longer the best and the brightest. Especially the men.
All of a sudden… Stop!
It’s time for a reality check.
The 11 agents who were sent home from Colombia in disgrace before the president even left Washington were there in a support role. Whether they were manning metal detectors or handling dogs that sweep rooms, whether they were part of a sniper team or standing post at 3 a.m. along a barricaded street, they were not members of the Presidential Protective Division (PPD). They were not on the president’s shoulder. At no time was the president’s security in danger.
What damage did their stupidity do? Obviously, a lot to their personal lives, their marriages and their careers. Obviously, also, a lot to the image and reputation of the Secret Service.
The legislation creating the Secret Service was sitting on Abraham Lincoln’s desk, waiting to be signed, on April 15, 1865, the night he was assassinated. In those days, the Secret Service was housed inside the Treasury Department, and its job was to protect and defend the currency and monetary instruments of the United States. It didn’t get the supplementary duty of protecting the president and vice president until after William McKinley was assassinated in 1901.
No agent I have ever met was hired for his sense of humor. These are very serious men and women who do their jobs very seriously.
They have always been the best and the brightest.
And they still are.
You can see it in the way they stand a little taller and walk with a different gait than others in law enforcement. You can see it in their pride. Frankly, I can’t think of any other law enforcement agency where pride counts as much as it does with the Secret Service. It’s the same pride that is always so visible with the U.S. Marines.
That’s the reason why this scandal matters. Not because someone thinks the agency is out of control. It’s not. Not because of wildly exaggerated threats of blackmail. No, Chicken Little, the sky is not falling. It matters because the idiotic actions of 11 agents who forgot who they are and what their badge stands for deeply affects every active duty agent and tens of thousands of retired agents. Pride has been dented. And agents are, rightly, furious.
These are men and women who have made — and continue to make — huge personal sacrifices for their share in that pride. The divorce rate among agents is high. That’s not because they party with hookers, but because for the privilege of wearing that special five starred badge, they abandon any thoughts of their time being their own. They miss birthdays and Christmas, Little League games, graduations, school plays, first teeth, first steps, first words.
When the president travels, especially overseas, it’s a flying circus with 800-1,000 people, limousines, helicopters, communications equipment, big guns, small guns, sometimes food, and often 20-30 planes.
As an integral part of this, Secret Service agents have two main concerns: To create and to maintain a tightly controlled environment in which the president can do his job safely and to bring everyone home at night.
Anything short of that is, the way the Secret Service defines the word, failure.
Just as those two things are true, so are these: What happened with those 11 agents is defined as stupidity. They will be dealt with quickly by the Secret Service. The president’s opponents will pretend that there are political ramifications and invent whatever capital out of this that they can to embarrass the president. It will take a long time before pride is fully restored, and, if this ever happens again, it will definitely not be soon.
CNN Editor’s note: Jeffrey Robinson is the co-author of ”Standing Next to History – An Agent’s Life in the Secret Service,” the autobiography of former United States Secret Service Special Agent, Joseph Petro. (St. Martins/Thomas Dunne Books. Available in both Kindle and Nook.) Follow him on Twitter
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We’ve just written extensively about Dania Londono Suarez, the high-class escort, who unwittingly triggered the Secret Service Sex Scandal, and how she has fled her tiny two room in apartment in Cartagena.
But we just stumbled upon her dating profile. Take a look at the woman who is bringing the Secret Service to their knees (no pun intended there).
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Dania Londono Suarez, the high-class escort, who unwittingly triggered the Secret Service Sex Scandal, has fled her tiny two room in apartment in Cartagena.
As the Spanish media descended upon her modest home yesterday, when the photos of her hit the internet, they were told by relatives, that she had left with her 9-year-old son.
“We were told that she had gone to stay with relatives in another town, ” one told us.
Until now, in the American and British press, she had largely been refered to by her first name.
Even her neighbors in Cartagena were unaware of both her surname, and her profession. Though, some did suspect that she could have been an escort due to the fact she was “living well”.
A neighbor says that she has now fled to the country, and her lawyer, Marlon Betancourt, confirmed this morning that she was no longer in the city.
Dania Londano Suarez and another “friend” who was at Cartagena’s Hotel Caribe fled in wake of the media frenzy.
“They are outside the city but I can’t tell you where they are,” Marlon Betancourt said.
Photos of Suarez were made public on Thursday afternoon, and the 24-year-old already spoke, prior to going underground, that she feared a retaliation, saying she was “scared”.
Her lawyer stressed that Dania didn’t want the photos released.
“She is annoyed. She didn’t want that photo to be published but she is prepared to collaborate with the authorities to clear up the situation.They haven’t done anything wrong,” Betancourt said. “The media really abused [the photos].”
The news comes on the back of the heels that three more Secret Service officers involved on Colombia prostitution scandal are expected to be fired today. And, in what could be the most damaging suggestion yet, the congressional committee is investigating whether any of the females involved were underage.
The U.S. agents and military personnel involved could also face criminal charges if is proven that they had sex with girls under the age of 18.
Two of the 11 Secret Service supervisors have been named.
David Chaney was forced to retire over his alleged role in the incident, while Greg Stokes was “removed with cause”.
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