From the Chicago Tribune: Three members of the U.S. Secret Service detail that protects President Barack Obama were sent home from Amsterdam for disciplinary reasons, a Secret Service spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
The spokesman, Brian Leary, declined to provide further details.
The agents were disciplined after going out for a night of drinking, the Washington Post reported. One of the agents was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway a day before the president arrived in Europe, said the Post, which first reported the incident, citing three people familiar with it.
None of the agents were supervisors, a Secret Service source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The incident comes despite efforts by the agency to restore its straight-laced reputation after a scandal involving prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2012. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-obama-agents-discipline-20140325,0,2044373.story
I swear, Obama ought to be keeping closer watch on his Secret Service agents, even though they were in a different country than Obama when they went on a drinking binge.
Actually, this really isn't news. And since this happened in Amsterdam, being drunk was probably the least of the problems they could have been. They could have gone to some drug bar or bag a prostitute or two- all legal there.
The bigger scandal is that there are over 900 people traveling with Obama costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
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