Posted on 04/14/2012 3:15:31 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- The U.S. military says five service members supporting the Secret Service in advance of President Barack Obama's visit may have been involved in inappropriate conduct and have been confined to quarters. Obama is in Colombia for a Summit of the Americas.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the incident...stems from the same episode involving about a dozen members of the Secret Service...
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That would depend on what the meaning of is is.
Why would the diplomatic corps have to get involved?
Only if the guy who can't keep it his pants is a Dem, especially a Progressive one. Otherwise, it's a 40 lashes offense.
Only if the guy who can't keep it his pants is a Dem, especially a Progressive one. Otherwise, it's a 40 lashes offense.
I’ll bet barack is upset about this. Especially if it were male hookers and they didn’t wait for him.
To prevent the Americans from getting arrested?
Sounds like a bunch of people caught Barry in a compromising position with someone who isn’t his wife. Maybe not even a female.
Over a couple hundred USD? Not buying it.
On a liberal forum I’ve seen people saying “only the right would be upset about a few guys getting BJ’s”.
Gee... having a dozen SS agents’ rooms (possibly containing sensitive planning data) infiltrated by a dozen hookers is no threat at all.
Don’t these guys access to the internet?
Colombia’s president thought Obama could score some points with America’s Hispanic voters with this visit; I hope this story drags on for months.
Honeypot? Anna Chapman was in the middle of something like this. I’m thinking there was an attempt to compromise the visit. I still want O out of our house and I’m hopeful in Leavenworth. One can be hopeful for change, yes? sd
It must be job stress. After all who would want to be known for the rest of their career as being Obama’s body man. What about later, will we find out which of these guys were present when Obama sold us out and they put the Pres above the country? Does the Service make his dope runs for him? Maybe by this point in the Obama Presidency, the service is out of guys from the first string.
Compromised?
This thread is useless without pictures (of the girls involved).
Fishy??
Have we seen pictures of these guys yet? I’m probably wrong, but I’m wondering if they’re Amish. Dumb thought. Never mind.
Pssst! Hey senior, would like to meeet my seeester?
HOOKERGATE !
I have been to Columbia. You don’t look for hookers they look for you.
They are VERY pretty. Sophia Vergara would not stand out in that crowd. Seriously. My wife is Mexican (legal thank you) and the only women she is jealous of are “las Columbianas”.
I have been to Columbia. You don’t look for hookers they look for you.
They are VERY pretty. Sophia Vergara would not stand out in that crowd. Seriously. My wife is Mexican (legal thank you) and the only women she is jealous of are “las Columbianas”.
Senore’ Clinton is a much better professional hooker user to ask your question.
Ya just don’t stiff the piano player and for goodness sake, don’t stiff your hooker.
One more thing Hunton Peck,
Whats your take on the Walker recall? Will he prevail?
Will the crazies of your state prevail??
Now the hookers are all dressed up and nobody to blow.
Geez people the only reason this sounds abnormal now is because we have been fighting in shitholes where the women are absolute dogs and haji really hates it when infidels boink his females.
I could believe one guy but not this many. No way. Something smells.
I quit making predictions a long time ago, cuz I’m really bad at it, but judging from what I see and hear in my little rural northwoods outpost, things look pretty good so far. Independents I talk to don’t necessarily appreciate all the good Walker’s done, but they think he should get the same chance other governors get, and are tired of the never-ending campaigning against him.
There are many more “We stand with Walker” yard signs around here than recall ones, including a lot at homes that don’t usually have signs at all (This area has been evenly split in recent elections, so I take this as a hopeful indicator).
We can presume that union-owned fleebaggers will try last-minute dirty tricks, but I get the impression that most folks are expecting that and will discount any such claims at least somewhat.
Don’t know if that reflects the leaning of the state as a whole, though.
Regardless of what we think of the idiots in power, it’s not good if the advance security team is getting drunk and partaking of the local talent in foreign countries.
They’re supposed to be professionals.
We don’t have all the facts and I’ll patiently wait for them. But right now they don’t appear to have acted very responsibly.
(Donning nuclear/flame suit...)
I love coming to your beautiful state, even Madison.
You are correct in that the unionists will try to portray Walker as the worst boogie man the state has ever known at the last minute.
I look for them to float a report that he is diddling little boys the day before the election giving NO time to refute. Or something as evil.
One more thing, If the wife and I were to come to Wisconsin this summer where would you say is a GREAT r.v. park?
Thanks
Soldiers patronizing prostitutes?
Why, I’m so surprised...
If they were having gay trysts the left wing media wouldn’t be promoting this idiotic story.
A soldiers job is to break things and kill people. When they aren’t doing that or training to do that, expect them to drink a bit, relax and visit disreputable women.
Sheesh, leave the soldiers alone.
I thought the Democrats are in favor of World courts convicting Americans of “Crimes”
Psst, just do not talk about sailors on shore leave, Hotel Street Honolulu.
The place to get”screwed,stewed and tattooed” in the Pacific War.
During World War Two, a slightly different situation was present in Honolulu. During the war, over 7 million men were stationed in or passed through the city on their way to fight in the South Pacific. This, of course, provided a high demand for sex work, as some of the men coming through town hadn’t seen a woman for months. At any given time, over 200 women who had come over from the mainland were working on Hotel Street, a block full of brothels that charged three dollars for three minutes. Though the women were required to have regular medical checks, which resulted in a surprisingly low rate of venereal diseases, there were many other strict regulations over the women’s actions. Some of these were that: prostitutes were not to be seen in public with army officers, they were not to wire money home to their families, were not to own cars and they were not to have bank accounts. The prostitutes and the madams who ran the assembly line-like brothels paid taxes on their respective yearly incomes of up to $40,000 and up to $150,000 (madams). Because the women were making such huge sums of money and yet still had men constantly lined up on street, they decided to raise their prices. The chief of police (and strong opposition to the brothels), Frank Steer, said, “The price of meat [is] still three dollars,” dehumanizing the women and signifying a contempt of the lucrative profession
Back in the 90s, the U S Diplomatic Mission in the old Embassy in Havana was undergoing a major upgrade. We had a crew of contractors from California overseeing the Cuban workers. The contractors, as well as all U S personnel, especially the Marine Security Guards, had to play by “Moscow Rules”: absolutely no fraternization with Cuban nationals. If one was caught with a Cubana, one would be on the next plane out. The NCOIC intuited that two of his Marines were in an apartment with a couple of Cuban girls; these guys were on the next plane back to Quantico to begin processing back to the fleet.
Fast and Furious, now this, and the GOP is still letting Holder or entire government agencies and offices go down the drain in the name of PC, snobery, cowardice and fear of controling what is out of control.
These people must really hate the job of taking care of America, they really suck.
Quid Pro Quo and sexual harassment is the MO of liberals. It’s ok if you self hate and are an atheist “loving science” to reject science and logic.
ANd with RINOs, you are a moderate if you tolerate terrorist radicals like Zero in our midsts and universities, ie. people who are barely veiling their intention of genocide against whomever is not mentaly ill like them, self hating and self destructing. It’s our perfect right, they claim, but they impose it too.
Similar rules for Beijing Embassy five years ago. How do you think that went? Compliance was lip service.
These “five service members” must be higher-ranking officers because normally, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines visiting local hookers while on leave isn’t exactly the kind of thing anybody notices. As a matter of fact, it’s expected.
Therefore, something about this story stinks to high heaven.
Is the military being dragged into this to try to soften the blow (no pun) to the Secret Service’s reputation?
How is that supposed to work?
Agreed.
We'll need to keep an eye on the Daily Mail and the rest of the British press to find out what's really going on here.
(Isn't that pathetic?)
It’s not exactly clear from the stories I’ve read (including this one), and my bracketed addition to the headline may have created more confusion, but it sounds as if the claim is that these service members were involved in procuring the hooker(s) for the SS agent(s).
What doesn’t make sense to me is why it would take such a wide-ranging operation to recommend some girls for a good time.
I’m not an RVer, so I don’t know what makes for the best parks, but the most popular places for recreating around here would be the Chippewa Flowage, in Sawyer County, with its legendary muskie fishing, or for scenery and a bigger body of water, the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior just to the north of there.
You can screen these people until there’s nothing you don’t know about them, but put them in a real world situation where they’re tempted and who knows what they’ll do?
Barry wasn’t down there yet. The SS were supposed to be securing the hotel area before his arrival.
Eleven Secret Service agents busted because they [one] refused to pay hooker:
Five American service members were also accused of misconduct stemming from the scandalous incident at the
hotel, according to the U.S. military.
Scandal was revealed Friday before President Obama arrived in Colombia for Summit of the Americas
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/ho_lombia_twist_4oMCMx8CRfOyJhODIuCcfM#ixzz1s7vCIUn9
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75128.html
Apparently, the SS was checking out the lay of the land prior to OBs visit. ................I apologize in advance of any complaint.
Sad that 16 men’s careers may be ruined because of their weakness. I think if we had a President who was admired and trusted, these men would have been more conscientious about their choices.
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