Disgraced Secret Service Agents Sent Home

Three Secret Service agents due to protect the US president on his trip to the Netherlands have been sent home.

President Barack Obama arrived in the country on Monday but the agents were sent home on Sunday after one agent was found drunk in a hotel in Amsterdam, the Secret Service said

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the three agents were "benched" for "disciplinary reasons".

He said the incident had not compromised the president's security in any way.

The agents sent home from Amsterdam were put on administrative leave, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the disciplinary action.

The newspaper said all three were on the Counter Assault Team - with one being a "team leader". The team defends the president if he comes under attack.

Secret Service staff travel with the president wherever he goes

While the drunk agent was discovered by staff at the hotel, who reported it to the US Embassy, the other two agents were considered complicit because they did not intervene despite being in a position to assist the drunken agent or curb his behaviour, an anonymous source said.

The latest incident with the Secret Service represents a fresh blemish for an elite agency struggling to restore its reputation following a high-profile prostitution scandal and other allegations of misconduct.

An inspector general's report in December concluded there was no evidence of widespread misconduct, in line with the service's longstanding assertion that it has no tolerance for inappropriate behaviour.

Before the president travels anywhere abroad, a number of Secret Service and other government officials are dispatched in advance to prepare the intense security operation needed to protect the president in unfamiliar territory.

Prostitute Dania Suarez was involved in the Columbia incident

Typically, counter assault teams travel with the president in his motorcade and, if he came under fire, the team would be called upon to engage any attackers while the president was hustled to safety.

Stricter rules implemented in the wake of a prostitution scandal involving secret service agents in Colombia in 2012 bar agents from drinking alcohol within 10 hours of starting a shift.

It is unclear whether the other two agents were drinking heavily or what time any of them would have been expected to show up for a shift.

Mr Obama was in the Netherlands on the first leg of a week-long, four-country European trip to include talks on Ukraine.

Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang

Disgraced Secret Service Agents Sent Home

Dengan url

http://jidatlancip.blogspot.com/2014/03/disgraced-secret-service-agents-sent.html

Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya

Disgraced Secret Service Agents Sent Home

namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link

Disgraced Secret Service Agents Sent Home

sebagai sumbernya