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Report: Probe of Secret Service Prostitution Scandal May Implicate White House Staffers

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Secret Service agensts stand by as President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a Memorial Day event a the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. on May 28, 2012. (Getty Images)

A yet-to-be-released government report about the Secret Service prostitution scandal that erupted in April may implicate two White House staffers, potentially throwing cold water on the administration’s prior assertion that there was no indication that anyone from the White House was involved, Fox News reported.

Citing “multiple law enforcement and congressional sources,” Fox reported that investigators from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General have discovered that two White House advance staffers also checked into their Cartagena, Colombia hotel with prostitutes ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit. A total of 13 Secret Service agents were investigated for their alleged involvement with prostitutes.

“Three U.S. delegation members that stayed at the Hilton brought prostitutes back as overnight guests. One of them was ours [Secret Service] and the other two were White House staffers,” a Secret Service official told Fox. “We knew very early that White House staffers were involved.”

Twelve of the 13 agents investigated stayed at the El Caribe hotel, while the remaining agent had a room at the Hilton, where Obama and the White House advance team also stayed, according to Fox.

Officials in the inspector general’s office said this week the report would be submitted in the coming days, after it was originally expected by July 2. According to Fox, the more than two-month delay has prompted speculation the report is being altered to cover up the roles of some of those involved.

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Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) of the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week sent a letter inquiring about the report’s status; a congressional source told Fox the committee staff is eager to see the report because it “includes information that two members of the White House advance team had prostitutes overnight.”

“The committee wants to know if White House staff engaged in improper conduct in Cartagena, which the White House previously denied,” the source said. Among the questions the letter asked was whether any changes were made to the report as a result of comments from the Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security.

A spokesman with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General denied Tuesday that the report was being deliberately held up, telling Fox the office was “in the final stages of preparing it” and that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would be briefed about it in the “next few days” and congressional lawmakers after that.

The White House did not comment to Fox about the matter.

Back in April, Glenn Beck questioned whether anyone from the White House had been involved in the scandal, telling rocker Ted Nugent to ask the Secret Service if there was “anybody from the White House that was involved with hookers down in Colombia?

“I just find this fascinating, no one seems to be asking the question — and there wouldn’t be a cover up going on at all — was there anyone from the White House or was the White House the only ones that were perfectly crystal, pure as the driven snow, pure?” Beck asked

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Comments (42)

  • Sharon Rose
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:46pm

    Nothing about this White House would surprise me.

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  • PERSONONAMISSION
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:39pm

    If Obama looses in November, do you think there will be a white house left standing for Romney. Or will it be burned to the ground by Obama and his radicle friends. Maybe Obama will drop an EMP on America. He will release his the radicle friends from prison. They will burn down the rest of the country.

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    • toto
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:17pm

      Lots to fear about what Obama people will do to destroy all that they can, and the security of our country is at the greatest risk. When you compare what would happen if Obama want the Muslims to destroy American and put it next to what is actually happening, it is obvious we are in deep, deep trouble.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:08am

      Sweet Old Barack will have about 110 days in office after he loses on Nov 6. Imagine the damage he can do in that amount of time. He can pardon all his terrorist/criminal buddies, he can release the prisoners from Gitmo. He can (and most certainly will) pardon all his Czars and other buddies befored they are indicted.
      He can use his “Executive Orders” to cause problems for the new administration and to force laws on all of us. (gun control, pardons and citizenship for illegal aliens). He can start IRS investigations of anyone that opposed his reelection.
      Scariest of all he can have his buddies Jackson and Rev Al incite their followers and Shabaz and Farrakhan to activate their followers to riot, giving his an excuse for Martial law. Thats his excuse to make himself King and Prsident for life.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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  • scrudge
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:51pm

    Ah Yes always ask the secret service people where the best piece of tail can be located

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  • Cavallo
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:05pm

    Wouldn’t it be nice if they paid us before they screwed us too?

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    • turkey13
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 5:40pm

      It’s an incentive system to turn your head and not see a lot of important things. There was the union head that came twice a week, Van Jones and Obamas boyfriend and a lot of other people he met with. He had to brink in some hookers to get Bill Clinton back on his side. You can bet obama got all parties on tape to keep them in line.

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  • LS News group
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:01pm

    Sadly if people had paid attention back in April this would have been known and made clear then. Lets see, Beck & others in April instead chose to ignore reports which were based on confirmed statements from the US Secret Service because they didn’t like the person who got the story. Take a look at these 3 stories from April 16, 17, & 24, 2012 and think, why didn’t anyone demand answers then?

    http://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/04/16/breaking-news-white-house-staff-involved-in-scandal-ignored/

    http://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/04/17/another-dont-let-a-good-crisis-go-to-waste-momen/

    http://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/04/24/wh-press-sec-carney-takes-shot-at-sinclair-news/

    As long as everyone tries to make themselves better than the other the Obama media will continue to delay the truth where it doesn’t hurt him when it finally comes out. We are yet again thrilled that despite those who would like to dismiss us are having to finally report something we broke months earlier. Yet not a single reference to our breaking the story on April 16, 2012 by The Blaze.

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  • Tickdog
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:10pm

    thats what liberals do. nothing new.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:09pm

    Why would this happen? — Because it is a great excuse to remove and then replace obama loyalists who will protect obama in the event of an illegal takeover/coup of our Government. This is standard alinsky technique for wolf in sheep’s clothing politics…. A thorough background check and hiring dates would be in order. Who of these are Union loyalists who magically infiltrated the secret service since 2008? We all know what obama is really up to- this fits the program to a T. It’s always like reading the last page you saw all over again.

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  • kaydeebeau
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:06pm

    Let me translate this for everyone “…..on the administration’s prior assertion that there was no indication that anyone from the White House was involved, Fox News reported.” = there was no indication (that we had left any paper trail or witnesses for the lame stream media to find) that anyone from the WH was involved (now we are leaving it unsaid that technically the white house was burned to the ground in 1812 so what stands today isn’t really the WH as it was originally built and named and since the wing that the offices are in wasnot part of the original WH, we are not lying when we say no one from the WH)…..

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    • term limits for congress
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:25pm

      Thank you, Jay Carney.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:33pm

      LOL – I would caution about the Term Limit idea. We already have term limits – the problem is the citizens don’t use it come election time

      I live in a city that adopted term limits. The problem we see now is that there are no holds barred in the last year in office (think the lame duck session from Nov to Jan in a Pres election)

      Term Limits remove any bargaining power the citizens have in withholding re-election. One of the most powerful deterrents is re-election. Take away the need to be re-elected and the evil of a politician (think what will happen in the 10 wks between Obama leaving office or what Obama will do in the next 4 yrs if he doesn’t have to worry about re-election)

      Do not under-estimate the thoughtfulness of our founders. They were so far beyond most of us now it is sad. They though about all of this. Repeal the 16th and the 17th amendments and we will see rapid recovery and restoration

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  • needmoinfo
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:03pm

    Okay. Check all the foreign countries Obama’s party has been to and start talking to their polititians, media, hotel maids, high price hookers, cooks, valets, you name it. Before the scandal mags get there first. This could cause an explosion of exposure. It will have to do us until the tell-all books come out after the Obamas pack their U-haul.

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    • Slipstick
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:12pm

      What? You expect them to do a REAL investigation???
      Look at the results of the DOJ “investigation” of Fast & Furious.
      …nothing to see here, folks! Move along, move along…

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      Slipstick  
  • needmoinfo
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:58am

    Are you kidding? Always figured it was most of the entire entourage. The only one I thought would never have any little stained blue dresses is Obama. A little stained blue speedo maybe.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:38am

    Anyone who would even work for that Administration is a liar, a theif and on their way to hell. They are as evil as that Obama who is a scourage upon America.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:37am

    They may have used the prostitutes as a ‘beard.’ I doubt many of them are of the normal persuasion of male females, etc. They are going around trying to look all Secrete Serveice and serious. The phonys think they are fooling someone.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:36am

    Unless the prostitutes were of the same sex, it is like the staffers would have sex with them.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:21am

    There is no telling what members of this White House are into.

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    • ConstitunalAmerican
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:25pm

      Its all part of the Dumbing Down process, by keeping them busy and involved, so no one pays attention to what is really going on.

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  • thibx
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:19am

    don’t log into cherie crap. my card got stolen one time i was purchasing my granddaughter a pair of shoes on journey. charges instantly on my account from all over the country.

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  • D_Fresh
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:16am

    Blaze…Please. Please report news, or don’t report it at all. It’s a given these people in the white house and the admin are covering.. and a crooks! plain and simple! God have mercy on their souls.

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  • dktrdktr
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:14am

    So were the White House Staffers buyers or sellers? Sellers wouldn’t have surprised me.

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:03am

    Chefs cook
    Truckers truck
    Lookers look
    Whitehouse employess _____

    Who cares?

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  • thibx
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:01am

    i don’t care who they have sex with but i do care about this country and the dumbass not doing his job. foreign appeasement policies. he can f a pig for all i care.

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    • Eric_The_Red_State
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:05am

      Exactly – this is not news.

      ‘course that says something about me looking to the Blaze for “News”

      I’ll get back to work now – after all, EVERYONE can’t be on foodstamps

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    • martyinhagerstown
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:36am

      No they cant f*** a pig for all you care. They inhabit the Whitehouse and there are standards of conduct.

      They are not free to F*** pigs or intern’s butts with cigars or intern’s mouths in the oval office. Private citizens may but WH staff and SS staff may not.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:05pm

      People who frequent prostitutes are susceptible to foreign agents.

      Even disregarding the foreign agents people who use prostitutes might be open to graft. To get a really nice ****** you need money. It is not exactly cheap.

      Let’s not forget that those who use prostitutes might be inclined to say anything goes.

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  • floridareader
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:00am

    And the scandal goes to other Latin American countries, not only Colombia. Maybe Sandra Fluke can learn one thing or two from prostitutes in Third World countries: how to get money from government officials and make it look like work.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:57am

    LOL. Yeah, just like that internal DOJ (faux) probe found that Holder knew absolutely nothing about Fast and Furious (even though the whole scheme was his and obama’s idea) – this probe will no doubt find that nobody in the administration had any connection to this scandal.

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  • ScreaminEagle
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:56am

    Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:53am

    Gosh, we need to get to the bottom of this, let’s get Holder to appoint a couple of special investigators!

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    Gonzo  
  • Steverino
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:52am

    I believe this group of politicians and cronies will go down in history as the most corrupt, arrogant and “above the law” administration in US history. Hell, maybe world history.

    Steve

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  • Landon410
    Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:50am

    good thing Janet N. wasn’t there, she would have had 5 or 6 ladies of the night in her room

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