Monday, April 16, 2012

USA! USA! USA!

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating allegations of misconduct by agents who had been sent to Cartagena, Colombia, to provide security for President Obama’s trip to a summit that began there Friday.


Edwin Donovan, an agency spokesman … declined to disclose details about the nature of the alleged misconduct. But Jon Adler, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, said the accusations relate to at least one agent having involvement with prostitutes in Cartagena.


The Washington Post was alerted to the investigation by Ronald Kessler, a former Post reporter and author of several nonfiction books, including the book “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.”


Kessler said he was told that a dozen agents had been removed from the trip. He added that soliciting prostitution is considered inappropriate by the Secret Service, even though it is legal in Colombia when conducted in designated “tolerance zones.” However, Kessler added, several of the agents involved are married.

I don't care that the agents were married; their vows and how they keep them are their own business. I don't care that they're involved in prostitution; who in a capitalist society isn't to some extent? What bothers me is that they — federal employees — purchased the favors of Colombian prostitutes, as in from Columbia.

I get it. I know the deal: they felt had to ship our Treasury department hand jobs overseas, what with the decline in the skills of U.S. sex workers in recent years, but, gentlemen, I assure you, that's all changed since the Great Recession. The pride is back!

So, you know, buy American, assholes!

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