EXCLUSIVE: DEA agents arranged prostitute for Secret Service agent

Manuel Pedraza / AFP - Getty Images file

View of the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, where a prostitution scandal involving U.S. Secret Service agents erupted in April 2012.

Two U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents “facilitated a sexual encounter” between a prostitute and a U.S. Secret Service agent days before President Barack Obama visited Colombia for a summit meeting in April 2012, according to a Justice Department investigation obtained exclusively by NBC News.

A summary of the findings of the investigation, included in a Dec. 20 letter from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General to Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins, indicated that a third DEA agent present on the night of the incident was not involved in procuring the prostitute for the Secret Service agent.

“While DEA agent #3 was present for a dinner that took place earlier that evening with the USSS agent and the other two DEA agents, he was not present in the residence when the sexual encounter took place and played no role in facilitating it,” the summary said.


All three DEA special agents admitted that they had paid for sexual services of a prostitute,  the investigation also found, and “used their DEA Blackberry devices to arrange such activities.” In addition, the report says the agents tried to destroy incriminating information or initially lied to investigators about the incidents. All three agents have high-security clearances.

The summary concluded that the agents’ actions did not warrant criminal prosecution.  It said the U.S. Attorney’s Office also “declined to initiate legal proceedings.” It said the case had been referred to the DEA for “action it determines to be appropriate.”

In a letter sent Wednesday to DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, Collins, R-Maine, called the findings “troubling” and the conclusion that law enforcement officials obstructed the OIG investigation “deeply troubling.” She also asked Leonhart to explain why  – nearly four months after the Office of the Inspector General referred the matter to the DEA -- “It is my understanding that those administrative actions are still pending.”

In a statement, DEA spokesman Rusty Payne said, "The Drug Enforcement Administration takes these matters very seriously. Any allegations of misconduct or wrongdoing by DEA personnel are thoroughly investigated and then reviewed by DEA's Board of Professional Conduct for any disciplinary action warranted. This matter is currently under review by the Board of Professional Conduct."

A DEA official, speaking on condition of anonymity, first said that while senior officials learned of the OIG’s findings in September, the agency was not allowed to act until the OIG concluded and presented its findings on Dec. 20. Later, the official acknowledged that that was not correct and that the OIG had officially referred its findings on Sept. 17.  

Sources briefed on the scandal have told NBC News that approximately a dozen members of the Secret Service security detail  hit the clubs of Cartagena on the evening of April 11, 2012, for a night of drinking that ended with them bringing women back to their hotel rooms.

Some of the women received money, and others did not ask for any, but in one case, an agent refused to pay, and the woman summoned a police officer. That led to an angry encounter that resulted in the debauchery becoming public.

The scandal led to the resignation or retirement of nine of 12 implicated Secret Service employees. Three others were cleared of serious misconduct but still could be disciplined.

The Pentagon also launched an investigation of a dozen military members in connection with the scandal. No disciplinary action has been announced as a result of that investigation.

Lisa Myers is NBC News' senior investigative correspondent; Mike Brunker is an NBC News investigations editor.

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No surprise here crooked drug cops all the way

  • 37 votes
#1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:14 PM EST

Are secret service agents so desperate that they need to go to prostitutes? Can't they have real girlfriends?

  • 22 votes
#1.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:05 PM EST

Finally found a useful role for the DEA!!

  • 36 votes
#1.2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:07 PM EST

I'm glad to see the departments are finally working together instead of constantly competing!

justme123... lol

  • 37 votes
#1.3 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:21 PM EST

Why do you need both males and females in these positions? This is why. A women who brought a man to her room, paid for or not, would have been fired by now and disgraced forever. This double standard keeps us women from being this stupid. Plus, we tend to not be as loose with our sex partners as our male counterparts. But as long as boys are allowed to be boys and hang out exclusively with other boys, testosterone poisoning commences and stupidity ensues.

  • 33 votes
#1.4 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:25 PM EST

drug cops are some of the lowest of the low.

womens studies 101 ftw

  • 20 votes
#1.5 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:36 PM EST
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Geeze, Banana, I thought you were a guy. You look just like Romney. Not bad for a guy, but a pretty damn ugly woman. Your momma should be shot for allowing you to live.

  • 10 votes
#1.6 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:36 PM EST

Like this is a surprise, everyone knows that drugs and hookers go hand in hand , like peas and carrots !

  • 22 votes
#1.7 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:36 PM EST

So, did they pay these prostitutes in USD, or in Ecstasy?

Sorry, but the DEA being involved in this, just left that one, too wide open, to pass up the opportunity for a bit of a joke there....

  • 10 votes
#1.8 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:56 PM EST

Gives new meaning to one hand washes the other

  • 11 votes
#1.9 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:56 PM EST

I'm sorry. I couldn't get a prostitute, ever. But, a Columbian? My unit would rot off! No thanks.

  • 2 votes
#1.10 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:09 PM EST

If they were off duty at the time, I dont guess any rules were broken. Just a bunch of stiffnecked moral outrage............

  • 12 votes
#1.11 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:14 PM EST

DEA agents arranged prostitute for Secret Service agent

So, what is your point? Who cares? Don't you people have anything to do like, let's say work?

  • 6 votes
#1.12 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:22 PM EST

...and did the Administration fire them all on the spot as promised in Obama's zero tolerance speech?

  • 15 votes
#1.13 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:22 PM EST

Wonder if the DEA agents got a cut from the pro?

  • 5 votes
#1.14 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:27 PM EST

It's widely known DEA agents are the most crooked people on the planet. No news here.

  • 16 votes
#1.15 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:31 PM EST

I assumed hookers have been agents for 50+ years. Just like 10% of homeless. Or bartenders.

More importantly tho:
Aren't things the Secret Service does supposed to be a secret?
Who leaked this? Idiots.

  • 5 votes
#1.16 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:37 PM EST

It was a DOZEN members of Obama's Security detail......how many of these "hand-picked" agents does Obama travel with???

  • 7 votes
#1.17 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:38 PM EST

Come on Mr. "big eared "Prez" you said you had zero tolerance. Oh yeh. you never mean what you say. They should have been fired. In any other military or paramilitary organization they would have been dumped. Guess they must have it in good with the "Prez". Oh and Theo, it must be O.K. to have zero ethics, morals or professional standards, let along organizational smarts. You must tell the wife you love her and when you take her to Jamaica, all bets are off because prostitution and drugs are legal there. GIVE ME BREAK egghead.

  • 8 votes
#1.18 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:10 PM EST

Alot. You can't imagine how much security preparation is involved in presidential travel. That's what it takes to protect the Leader of the Free World. I'm old enough to remember the Kennedy assassination and the attempts on Reagan. Hard enough giving our President the protection he needs here at home, let alone abroad.

My hat's off to the Secret Service. They do a heck of a job. And, each and every one of them will take a bullet in protecting our presidents--regardless of party.

  • 3 votes
#1.19 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:39 PM EST

Gee - I guess that we should recruit boy scouts for the DEA. After all - we all know that the drug dealers (monitored by the DEA) will just pat them on the ass and send them back home (in a box). The DEA must associate with the lowest of the low to gather information. For some reason, they can never get drug dealer info at churches. And now it shocks people that they know the hookers that the drug dealers use?

  • 2 votes
#1.20 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:44 PM EST

the-chief - Wow you've got quite the imagination there! I didn't see anything in the story about Jamaica, or wives. And try reading the story with comprehension - they were fired. And the size of the president's ears has exactly what to do with your point?

Funny how righteous righties get about lying about sex and how accepting they are about lying about WMD's to get us into a war which kills thousands of our soldiers, tens of thousands of civilians and bankrupts the country. Where were your concerns about morals and ethics and professional standards back then?

Egghead

  • 13 votes
#1.21 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:59 PM EST

the-chief - BTW you do understand what "twelve agents resigned or retired" means don't you.

  • 8 votes
#1.23 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:12 PM EST

The Keystone Cops and the Secret Circus Strike Again LMAO!

These guys can't do anything right

  • 6 votes
#1.24 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:18 PM EST

who gives a hoot hoot hoot...0-0...

  • 1 vote
#1.25 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:38 PM EST

A bunch of guys wanted to get laid in a country where prostitution is not only legal but widespread, and you lunatics are having a fit of moral outrage? What, somehow this country where sexuality of every kind is a sport is suddenly becoming a nation of chastity obsessed prudes? This post is full of a bunch of pompous, sanctimonious as#ho$es!!

  • 16 votes
#1.27 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:43 PM EST

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

This administration is an abject embarrassment.

And we wonder why we lost 4 brave American's in Benghazi.

I know, let's just pay the Secret Service and DEA more money, that's the usual Liberal solution, that'll fix it.

  • 7 votes
#1.28 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:55 PM EST

Even the stupidest DEA agent is a brain compared to the idiots at the TSA.....

  • 4 votes
#1.29 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:01 PM EST

There's absolutely no discipline in this administration as we have witnessed so many times. This is beyond the scope of their agenda and serves no purpose in obtaining it.

  • 5 votes
#1.30 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:39 PM EST

AnaBanana-1782128

Why do you need both males and females in these positions? This is why. A women who brought a man to her room, paid for or not, would have been fired by now and disgraced forever. This double standard keeps us women from being this stupid. Plus, we tend to not be as loose with our sex partners as our male counterparts. But as long as boys are allowed to be boys and hang out exclusively with other boys, testosterone poisoning commences and stupidity ensues.

Really? Women don't just "sleep around"? LOL! You, maybe not. I don't know you. Maybe you are one of the few honest women out there. But, most women I know, have cheated on their husbands/boyfriends multiple times. I know quite a few that have been with over 5 dozen men. Plus all the stories my military friends tell me about the women in their unit and how they (the women) enjoy sleeping around with as many of them as possible. Don't just blame men. Women are just as bad.

  • 5 votes
#1.31 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:41 PM EST

the-Chief

Come on Mr. "big eared "Prez" you said you had zero tolerance. Oh yeh. you never mean what you say. They should have been fired. In any other military or paramilitary organization they would have been dumped. Guess they must have it in good with the "Prez"

Then by all means, lets give Obama the power to hire and fire at will. But then you'd whine about him having too much power. He doesn't have the authority to fire DEA agents, or military members, or even his own Secret Service. These are organizations with their own internal structures and disciplinary procedures that have to be followed. Best he can do is tell the head of those organizations what he'd like to happen. They are free to agree or to tell him to pack sand.

Sorry you'd rather just mouth off with yet another pathetic Obama rant instead of thinking logically. Any opportunity to bad mouth, right?

  • 3 votes
#1.32 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:55 PM EST

PIMPS AND DRUG DEALERS enforcing the law...

Don't you feel safer???

How safe will you be from these agents when we have no guns?

They are above the laws they are to enforce. They have no problem putting you in jail for such actions but in their empowered minds they are above the laws...

  • 6 votes
#1.33 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:26 AM EST

SURE YOU CAN TRUST YOUR
GOVERNMENT TO TURN IN YOUR GUNS

Just ask the Aboriginal People
of this land how that worked out for them.

Never
trust a Government that WANTS YOUR GUNS AND MONEY and has a HISTORY OF GENOCIDE

“TO RESIST TYRANNY IS TO SERVE GOD”

When the Government lays down all their arms....I'll think about
doing the same

WHEN DHS RETURNS ALL 1.6
BILLION HOLLOW POINT BULLETS
I'll
think about doing the same

When there is disarmament of
over 100,000 Federal Bureaucrats using unconstitutional powers

I'll think about doing the same

When the police are unarmed

I'll think about doing the same

When the IRS is unarmed

When the TSA is ABOLISHED

When the ATF is abolished

When the DEA is abolished

When the NSA is unarmed and
limited powers

When the EPA is abolished

When the CIA cannot operate on
American soil or against Americans

When the FDA actually works for
the people

When the GOVERNMENT FEARS THE
AMERICAN VOTER AS MUCH AS THE AMERICAN SHOOTER

THEN I WILL THINK ABOUT TURNING
IN MY ARMS! ONLY, THINK ABOUT!

AMENDMENT II

"A well regulated
Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the
people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

*SHALL NOT BE
INFRINGED*…END OF SUBJECT

  • 9 votes
#1.34 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:27 AM EST

'sheepled'...

calm down man, you are wrapped a little tight. No one wants your gun now, or in the future. Actions will be taken to make it more difficult for whackos to get guns. So if you are not a whacko (which is debatable based on your 1.34 ramblings) chill my brutha!

    #1.35 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:36 AM EST

    It's a stressful job, occasionally you need a little strange!

    • 2 votes
    #1.36 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:16 AM EST
    Reply

    Men paying for sex in a country where it is legal to do so.

    Nothing to see here folks, please keep moving, keep moving.........

    • 36 votes
    #2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:16 PM EST

    I beg to differ!! Cops need to act is a proper manner buying a hooker is not it. They also used government equipment to arrange it!

    • 19 votes
    #2.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:35 PM EST

    The general public has a very distorted view of what these people do for a living. They risk their lives 24-7 to deal with the most dangerous criminals in the world, lay it on the line to protect the namby-pamby idiots that get up every day and go sit behind a desk to look muy importante. If these guys want a little pussy once in a while, I say no problem with that.

    • 16 votes
    #2.2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:44 PM EST

    Let's assume it was done on their own time, where it was legal, with their own money. Then what exactly is improper about it?

    • 19 votes
    #2.3 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:47 PM EST

    So it ok to buy sex but it's not ok to smoke a herb? morals that we all can live bye i get it now'' I've seen the light'' paying for sex is good ,smoking a plant is the evil. lmao .

    • 14 votes
    #2.4 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:59 PM EST

    I agree, marijuana prohibition is absurd.

    • 19 votes
    #2.5 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:09 PM EST

    Theo,

    Its not the act of sex that is the problem, These are secret services agents doing there job in a foreign country and getting drunk and allowing hookers in there rooms, when they are on PROTECTION detail again PROTECTION detail and have the presidents movements and times and places , What a perfect target he would have made ! sometime you people have no sense about what kind of world we live in !

    • 15 votes
    #2.6 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:40 PM EST

    You know what I find ironic, to say the very least about all of this? As much as some might talk of cops living up to a higher standard, and especially when this argument comes from politicians; one can almost retort back "like the standard the politicians themselves follow?" When talk of national security is brought up, one can ask "so is a President's sex scandals less an issue of national security?" The list could go on with that one from Bill Clinton, to John F. Kennedy is said to have slept around, even going as far back as Thomas Jefferson himself. Yes, our fore fathers and framers of the Constitution were reported to have been involved in sex scandals, some of these people having gone on to become President themself, while history also records a few skelatons that were in their closets.

    Looking at Congress, it comes much the same. If we started digging around these people's lives looking for something we could accuse them with on moral grounds, I'm rather certain that more then a handful of people in Congress would be sitting in the judgement seat right about now. There's almost an air of "do as I say, and not as I do" about this whole matter. Sex scandals and politics is a very old joke in this country, and as much as one might see hearings in Congress on the matter; this is not something that politicians, and yes even Presidents have been above, themselves.

    There's an old saying for this apparent hypocracy that can come out of all this, something about people living in glass houses, not throwing stones. Would all these politicians who can be ready to hold a standard for appointees, that elected officials don't always seem apt to live up to themselves, be all that thrilled if the media started a bit of investigative journalism and a bit of what used to be called "muck raking" into seeing just what affairs, what lies, what matters of "cheating" either in their marriages, financially, by insider trading, or what have you, could be dug up on members of Congress? Because all too often, not everyone in politics who might lead the charge and launch the investigation, is not always all that clean, from a moral standpoint themselves.

    All arguments of a protection detail (well the President is also the Commander and Chief of the armed services, someone an enemy combatant could have value in compromising, if we want to argue hypotheticals) aside; why does it seem much of the time that appointees are held to a higher standard then elected officials? And in fact excuses can be made for elected officials, as if we've so come to expect improprieties and a level of dishonesty and less then moral behavior from our elected officials, that people seem almost ready to give the elected officials a free pass, where other officials they wouldn't extend the same liscense, in such indiscretions and even outright scandals, if you will.... Should the President, and members of Congress, govenors, etc really be held to the lesser standard in all of this?

    • 3 votes
    #2.7 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:10 PM EST

    WOW...they figured out that men serving away from home engage services of prostitutes....and this is news. I hate to burst the secret but this has gone on since before there even was a United States of America.

    As long as its on thier time at their expense....who cares.

    At any price its still cheaper than a wife or girlfriend.

    • 10 votes
    #2.8 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:24 PM EST

    Azrancher

    I sure hope your wife or girlfriend gets tested for std's or aids, cause nothing says I love you than a giving your partner a disease ! such a stand up person you are !

    and NO when you are on protection detail on foreign soil YOU are ALWAYS on duty and your stupid judgement can get our elected officials KILLED ! which is probably why you were never hired for a special assignment because its not about YOU, its about the person your protecting and when you get back home then its your time and then you could bang hookers 5 at a time if you want, but that women standing behind you holding that knife is about to chop off your nuts, so think before you act or for that matter shoot off your mouth with stupid selfish comments !

    • 4 votes
    #2.9 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:36 PM EST

    I know - let's all just follow the laws that we agree with, and ignore the ones that we don't agree with. I don't like the speed limit or stop signs - so you fools better watch out.

    Or do we want the DEA to enforce the laws that they are told to enforce? Maybe we should demand that the DEA agents in foreign countries to wear a sign around their necks that identify their agency?

    It takes a special type of moron to post that federal agents risking their lives for you is 'bad' or that they are enforcing the wrong laws. These guys put their lives on the line every day. This while you cowards whine and post on newsvine.

    • 1 vote
    #2.10 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:49 PM EST

    @interested observer

    how about u just stfu?

    • 1 vote
    #2.11 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:17 PM EST

    This would never happen under a Democratic administration. They go for the foot tappers. Oh, sorry, this is a Democratic administration. My point, if this was a Republican administration, the pro-welfare leeches would be out in force screaming.

    • 3 votes
    #2.12 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:18 PM EST

    mike-2598123

    Its not the act of sex that is the problem, These are secret services agents doing there job in a foreign country and getting drunk and allowing hookers in there rooms, when they are on PROTECTION detail again PROTECTION detail and have the presidents movements and times and places , What a perfect target he would have made ! sometime you people have no sense about what kind of world we live in !

    The ONLY problem with your statement I've seen, is the FACT that they were OFF DUTY when this occurred. And it was days BEFORE the POTUS arrived. It might help to read and understand what your reading before posting.

    By Lisa Myers and Mike Brunker
    NBC News

    Two U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents "facilitated a sexual encounter" between a prostitute and a U.S. Secret Service agent days before President Barack Obama visited Colombia for a summit meeting in April 2012, according to a Justice Department investigation obtained exclusively by NBC News.

    • 3 votes
    #2.13 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:50 PM EST

    You've never lived until you've smoked a hooker and f*cked a bag of marijuana. It's amazing!

    • 3 votes
    #2.14 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:57 PM EST

    LMAO @Chris from Yucaipa

    • 1 vote
    #2.15 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:33 AM EST

    stupid repuplicons :

    I see your handle and agree you are stupid ! since its obvious you have no idea what your talking about. let me explain it again for the slow !

    When your on a Protection detail you are ALWAYS on duty until the president leaves the country, since I know you have no law enforcement background or you wouldn't have claimed to know what you are talking about, try watching the history channel about the secret services and expand your mind, watching the kardasians is not doing anything for you !

    • 2 votes
    #2.16 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:03 AM EST

    One idiot actually thought she was @!$%#ing for free. You pay them to leave and because he didn't some good men lost their jobs.

    • 2 votes
    #2.17 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:42 AM EST

    Mike-

    Glad that you THINK you know me so well and are quick to insulting. Do shifts NOT end? Do they work 24/7? And as for the Kardasians, LOL, I can't stand people like them. So you like to jump to conclusions instead of having an adult conversation and just talking about the article. This will be the ONLY time I respond to an arrogant/ignorant a$$ like yourself. Have a good day!

    • 1 vote
    #2.18 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:02 AM EST

    But hey, let's let the criminal cops be the only ones with guns.

    • 2 votes
    #2.19 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:33 AM EST

    To those of you who fail to see the problem with agents from the DEA and Secret Service hiring prostitutes, the problem is this. These are highly sensitive positions that require one to have a security clearance. Before you are even granted a security clearance, you must agree to, in writing, certain prohibitions on your behavior, whether it's on or off duty, whether it's legal or illegal. You can bet that hiring prostitutes, even if it's legal and off duty, is clearly prohibited. These agents KNEW they were violating the terms of their security clearances and they knew that the grounds for those violations was immediate termination employment. I'm sorry to break it to you, but they don't have a leg to stand on.

      #2.20 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:55 AM EST

      Solution to the problem: hire some female Secret Service and DEA agents who have passed all the requisite security clearances to take care of the guys when they're so far from home for so long. Anabanana, you up to the job babe? You seem to have a good grasp (get it?) on why female agents are sooo needed. ;-)

      Flame On!

        #2.21 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:20 AM EST
        Reply

        "Only the best" or so the applicants are told when applying to the SS, BATFE, DEA, etc.

        I guess that means they get "only the best" pimps and ho's.

        • 11 votes
        Reply#3 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:18 PM EST

        MIB Will Smith (Edwards) "Y'boy, Captain America over here! 'Best of the best of the best, sir!' ... 'With honors.' Yeah, he's just really excited and he has no clue why we're here."

        • 2 votes
        #3.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:30 PM EST

        The few...the proud...the morally bankrupt. I get all warm an fuzzy knowing that these agencies are protecting my safety and that of my country.

        For those of you who really believe in the credibility of the work such organizations are doing, please send an extra couple of hundred dollars withyour tax return this year to support their continued efforts in futility and discrace. With your support, there is not telling what levels of depravity they may sink to in the future...go Amerika (sic)!!!

        • 3 votes
        #3.2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:15 PM EST

        Remove the 'K' out of America, you disrespectful dumb sh17. Like you're so morally superior. Let's dig around through your closet.

        Not condoning what the agents did IF IN FACT they jeopardized any national security. Just questioning all the "moral outrage" coming from a NATION full of doping, alcoholic, promiscuous, whore-mongering internet cry babies. Discipline the agents based upon legal/procedural infractions, and quit using the moral high ground and "higher standards" bullsh17 you use because you're not a member of the gang. Chances are, your idea of morality is different than mine. What if I called for your firing or legal prosecution based on my idea of moral turpitude?

        Here's an idea: since all the governmental agents and police officers are pulled from a pool of people called "the American public" how about we all try to fix our own moral failings, to give a higher quality pool from which to hire the agents and police officers in the future. Duh, didn't think about that, did you little bigot?

          #3.4 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:42 AM EST
          Reply

          It's so ridiculous, these clowns can get hired by a branch of the DoJ, but because I smoked a little pot 10 years ago, I get automatically disqualified.

          • 10 votes
          Reply#4 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:24 PM EST

          Right. The secret is, don't get caught before you apply.

          • 4 votes
          #4.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:26 PM EST

          Didn't get caught, it's on the employment questionnaire, and I have no interested in being jailed for perjury if they decide to give me a poly.

          • 5 votes
          #4.2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:36 PM EST

          Once your caught and dumb enough to plead guilty

          then Keep on smokin..Fluck umm

          • 2 votes
          #4.3 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:07 PM EST

          You broke the law; they didn't.

          • 1 vote
          #4.4 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:21 PM EST

          Hey, you qualify for the office of president though (e.g.: Bush, Obama). How does the double standard feel now?

          • 1 vote
          #4.5 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:44 AM EST
          Reply

          People with "high security clearances" lying to the investigators. I'll bet their momma's are proud of them.

          • 7 votes
          Reply#5 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:25 PM EST

          In military circles at least, there's a term to cover just this. Plausable deniability.... Technically it's not lieing, but it's also not offering up anymore information then the person afore hand knew to ask for as well... The famous old "I can neither confirm, nor deny the verasity of..." fill in the blank, is a classic

          • 1 vote
          #5.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:22 PM EST

          Usually, lies are what prevent DEA applicants from being hired and what gets them fired after being hired. FYI, smoking a joint or 2 in high school or college, by itself, does not disqualify a DEA applicant, but lying about it does. Honesty is the best policy for getting and keeping a job at the DEA.

          • 5 votes
          #5.2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:57 PM EST
          Reply

          Isn't that pimping or something?????

          • 5 votes
          Reply#6 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:25 PM EST

          These people are supposed to be protecting us!!! Looks like they are doing it with their pants down. The sad part is that they believe that because of who they are they are above all else and can do whatever they want.

          • 4 votes
          Reply#7 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:26 PM EST

          They aren't supposed to be protecting us. They are supposed to protect the president. I say, let them all fall asleep on this job.

          • 7 votes
          #7.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:28 PM EST

          If by "let them all fall asleep on this job" you're saying what I think you're saying, you might want to think again. Because hinting at that sort of thing, can make one a person of interest to another agency with a 3 letter acronym, that under the expanded powers of the Patriot Act could leave them searching online communications to see if there's anything more...

          Lets just say, it's best not even to go there ;) Personally, I wouldn't even joke about that sort of thing, especially given the post-9/11 climate where even an infant can get groped at an air port....

          • 4 votes
          #7.2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:27 PM EST

          Your comment is disgusting and disturbing.

          • 4 votes
          #7.3 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:31 PM EST

          What do you do for a living, judgement guy? Sit behind a computer all day and complain and rear down everyone else....

          • 5 votes
          #7.4 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:32 PM EST

          They were off duty & doing what is legal in that country. After a stressful day, nothing better that a hottie for relaxation. Even self-rightous prudes partake, but are rarely caught.

          • 2 votes
          #7.5 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:28 PM EST
          Reply

          Finally, the DEA does something useful for somebody.

          With all the piles of money we spend on that agency, drug use hasn't fallen at all. They prop up the prices by putting kinks in the supply chain, sure, but as the prices rise the supply resumes and a whole bunch of people get shot in the ensuing gang warfare. Your tax dollars at work.

          Nice to see they finally helped someone.

          • 8 votes
          Reply#8 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:26 PM EST

          Fuel for the wingnut fire. There are too many real issues this country needs to focus on without these little dumb ass distractions.

          • 8 votes
          Reply#9 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:26 PM EST

          disgusting.

          • 4 votes
          Reply#10 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:31 PM EST

          OPMG that's horrible! Makes, Afghanistan, global warming and the budget deficit pale in comparison.

          • 6 votes
          Reply#11 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:34 PM EST

          What else is new.? We are all getting screwed.

          • 6 votes
          Reply#12 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:36 PM EST

          Who says there's no cross-agency collaboration in America?

          • 8 votes
          Reply#14 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:37 PM EST

          Hey Al... I didn't read to post #14 when I posted 1.3

          you get the 1st great mind thinks alike award (imho!)

          • 5 votes
          #14.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:38 PM EST
          Reply

          douche bag Lieberman is involved... this smells simply because of him... he sucks, he has served Israel, NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!

          • 8 votes
          Reply#15 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:38 PM EST

          I totally agree with you re: Lieberman.

          • 7 votes
          #15.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:54 PM EST

          Lieberman is one of the BIGGEST problem with the US deficit!

          • 2 votes
          #15.2 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:01 PM EST
          Reply

          Here comes the Moralistic Nanny Squad again!

          • 4 votes
          Reply#16 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:48 PM EST

          Scum all around. I'm all for legalizing hooking here in the States. However this crime reflects the low moral character of our current crop of thugverment agents. None will be fired from their overpaid jobs. Count on it.

          • 8 votes
          Reply#17 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:49 PM EST

          Crime? They even stated above that this was NOT a crime.

          The summary concluded that the agents’ actions did not warrant criminal prosecution. It said the U.S. Attorney’s Office also “declined to initiate legal proceedings.” It said the case had been referred to the DEA for “action it determines to be appropriate.”

          And what is "Morally" wrong about intercourse? Hope they don't get fired for doing what is legal over there AND in parts of the US. Get off your high horse and join the rest of us in reality.

          • 1 vote
          #17.1 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:02 AM EST

          THE LOST CHILDREN

          In New York City, a 1994 audit conducted by the Office of the Comptroller
          found that the Child Welfare Administration had incorrect addresses listed in
          the official record for 20 percent of the foster children in its care.[1]

          That represents 12,000 children out of about 60,000 in foster care that City
          caseworkers can not immediately locate.[2]

          Auditors also found that: "Five percent of the children in care were listed
          as living at the CWA headquarters at 80 Lafayette St., even though more than
          half of those children had been in foster care for more than two years."[3]

          The agency directly responsible for these children had listed 2,574 of them
          as residing at its own headquarters.[4]

          According to a 1996 report: "A significant number of records in the CCRS
          database reflects inaccurate information, including out-of-date or inaccurate
          addresses, which affects CWA's ability to locate children quickly."

          Based on earlier research conducted by the Office of the Comptroller, the
          following conditions were found to relate to the 50,702 children then in the
          tracking system database:

          • 84 children may never have been recorded at all, and 4,422 of the 32,530
            children in homes supervised by voluntary agencies have incorrect addresses
            listed;

          • 4,621 of the 18,172 children in homes supervised by CWA have incorrect
            addresses listed;

          • 1,103 children (471 of the 18,172 children in homes supervised by CWA, and 632 out of 32,530 children in homes supervised by voluntary agencies) were discharged from foster care, but their records did not reflect this action.

          Just how many children may actually be "lost" in the system at any given
          moment? According to Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi:

          We reviewed the timeliness of the data input for 9,663 children
          placed into foster care from June 1991 - September 1992... The CWA did not
          record initial placement data within the required seven-day time frame for 8,433
          (87 percent) of these children.[5]

          Another 1996 review included a random selection of 195
          cases, of which auditors could not locate four case files. Two of the four were
          closed according to the data base; another was an active case; and the remaining
          record was "signed out" to a CWA Deputy Commissioner who denied having the file.
          Auditors found file folders lying on floors and in unlabeled and haphazardly
          arranged cartons.[6]

          As of December of 1996, New York City was still in the planning stages for a
          computer database of abuse and neglect cases, still logging them manually on
          index cards.[7]

          News reporter Anna Quindlen spent a morning with volunteers and staff members
          of Court Appointed Special Advocates, volunteers who are assigned by Family
          Court judges to look out for the interests of some of the children in New York
          City's foster care system.

          Quindlen describes their role in trying to locate the lost children: "They
          are on the phone constantly, trying to track kids who often get lost in the
          labyrinth of foster care, which is full of dead ends. Think about what it takes
          to get a straight answer out of any government bureaucracy; multiply that by 10
          and that is their job."[8]

          • 1 vote
          #17.2 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:00 AM EST
          Reply

          slow news day this qualifies as a "scoop"

          • 2 votes
          Reply#18 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:52 PM EST

          I sure hope they aren't allowed to have guns, lol

          • 2 votes
          Reply#19 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:57 PM EST

          That's what I like to see. Good cooperation between our government agencies. Keep up the good work, fellas!

          • 3 votes
          Reply#20 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:58 PM EST

          Nice to know my tax dollars are hard at work!

          • 5 votes
          Reply#21 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:12 PM EST

          YOUR tax dollars paid for the hookers? Are they NOT allowed to spend THEIR earned income as they want?

          • 1 vote
          #21.1 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:05 AM EST

          NO they are not allowed to spend their money on what they want. Can you purchase a hooker legally?...they cannot either.

          Defending them becasue maybe you frequent hookers yourself?

          I for one believe that like in Germany prostitution should be legal and regulated for many reasons, public health and safety to those that are drawn to that life style. Reduce rape and other sexually frustrated ppl from acting out in violence towards women.

          But until then... it is illegal, no differnt than purchasing drugs for personal use illegal.

          • 1 vote
          #21.2 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:34 AM EST

          It is illegal in SOME parts of the US. Not All. Is prostitution illegal in Las Vegas? And FYI, never been with a hooker. Don't trust them. But I do defend other peoples rights to do as they wish. (Legality is ONLY what we make of it, it's not an absolute)

            #21.3 - Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:32 AM EDT

            It is illegal in SOME parts of the US. Not All. Is prostitution illegal in Las Vegas?

            Yes, prostitution IS illegal in Las Vegas but legal in a few COUNTIES in Nevada.

            Perhaps some folks are happy with the obese pig they married and will bite the obeast bullet and never have contentual sex again.

            I prefer a smart working girl than a merkin pig any day or night.

              #21.4 - Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:39 AM EDT
              Reply
              DamyouDeleted

              I love to see examples of inter-agency cooperation. As long as there are no sloppy seconds!!

              • 1 vote
              Reply#23 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:21 PM EST
              Comment author avatarcatlover589Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

              Just wait until we hear about King Hussein's hooker. He'll just deny, deny, deny, like his mentor BillyBob Clinton, but we'll all know it to be true. Think Moochelle will stand by him like that snatch Hillary did? Took one for the team, she did.

              • 6 votes
              Reply#24 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:25 PM EST

              catlover589 Comment collapsed by the community

              Just wait until we hear about King Hussein's hooker. He'll just deny, deny, deny, like his mentor BillyBob Clinton, but we'll all know it to be true. Think Moochelle will stand by him like that snatch Hillary did? Took one for the team, she did.

              You mean Billy Jeff.

              • 1 vote
              #24.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:43 PM EST
              Reply

              I used to live near DC and employed the wife of a secret service agent attached to the White House. You have no idea what goes on according to what she told me.

              • 4 votes
              Reply#25 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:39 PM EST

              That Would Not Surprise me...When your up that high

              laws don't apply ..unless your caught..Red Handed

              • 1 vote
              #25.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:53 PM EST

              SURE YOU CAN TRUST YOUR
              GOVERNMENT TO TURN IN YOUR GUNS

              Just ask the Aboriginal People
              of this land how that worked out for them.

              Never
              trust a Government that WANTS YOUR GUNS AND MONEY and has a HISTORY OF GENOCIDE

              “TO RESIST TYRANNY IS TO SERVE GOD”

              When the Government lays down all their arms....I'll think about
              doing the same

              WHEN DHS RETURNS ALL 1.6
              BILLION HOLLOW POINT BULLETS
              I'll
              think about doing the same

              When there is disarmament of
              over 100,000 Federal Bureaucrats using unconstitutional powers

              I'll think about doing the same

              When the police are unarmed

              I'll think about doing the same

              When the IRS is unarmed

              When the TSA is ABOLISHED

              When the ATF is abolished

              When the DEA is abolished

              When the NSA is unarmed and
              limited powers

              When the EPA is abolished

              When the CIA cannot operate on
              American soil or against Americans

              When the FDA actually works for
              the people

              When the GOVERNMENT FEARS THE
              AMERICAN VOTER AS MUCH AS THE AMERICAN SHOOTER

              THEN I WILL THINK ABOUT TURNING
              IN MY ARMS! ONLY, THINK ABOUT!

              AMENDMENT II

              "A well regulated
              Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the
              people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

              *SHALL NOT BE
              INFRINGED*…END OF SUBJECT

              • 2 votes
              #25.3 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:28 AM EST

              THE LOST CHILDREN

              In New York City, a 1994 audit conducted by the Office of the Comptroller
              found that the Child Welfare Administration had incorrect addresses listed in
              the official record for 20 percent of the foster children in its care.[1]

              That represents 12,000 children out of about 60,000 in foster care that City
              caseworkers can not immediately locate.[2]

              Auditors also found that: "Five percent of the children in care were listed
              as living at the CWA headquarters at 80 Lafayette St., even though more than
              half of those children had been in foster care for more than two years."[3]

              The agency directly responsible for these children had listed 2,574 of them
              as residing at its own headquarters.[4]

              According to a 1996 report: "A significant number of records in the CCRS
              database reflects inaccurate information, including out-of-date or inaccurate
              addresses, which affects CWA's ability to locate children quickly."

              Based on earlier research conducted by the Office of the Comptroller, the
              following conditions were found to relate to the 50,702 children then in the
              tracking system database:

              • 84 children may never have been recorded at all, and 4,422 of the 32,530
                children in homes supervised by voluntary agencies have incorrect addresses
                listed;

              • 4,621 of the 18,172 children in homes supervised by CWA have incorrect
                addresses listed;

              • 1,103 children (471 of the 18,172 children in homes supervised by CWA, and 632 out of 32,530 children in homes supervised by voluntary agencies) were discharged from foster care, but their records did not reflect this action.

              Just how many children may actually be "lost" in the system at any given
              moment? According to Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi:

              We reviewed the timeliness of the data input for 9,663 children
              placed into foster care from June 1991 - September 1992... The CWA did not
              record initial placement data within the required seven-day time frame for 8,433
              (87 percent) of these children.[5]

              Another 1996 review included a random selection of 195
              cases, of which auditors could not locate four case files. Two of the four were
              closed according to the data base; another was an active case; and the remaining
              record was "signed out" to a CWA Deputy Commissioner who denied having the file.
              Auditors found file folders lying on floors and in unlabeled and haphazardly
              arranged cartons.[6]

              As of December of 1996, New York City was still in the planning stages for a
              computer database of abuse and neglect cases, still logging them manually on
              index cards.[7]

              News reporter Anna Quindlen spent a morning with volunteers and staff members
              of Court Appointed Special Advocates, volunteers who are assigned by Family
              Court judges to look out for the interests of some of the children in New York
              City's foster care system.

              Quindlen describes their role in trying to locate the lost children: "They
              are on the phone constantly, trying to track kids who often get lost in the
              labyrinth of foster care, which is full of dead ends. Think about what it takes
              to get a straight answer out of any government bureaucracy; multiply that by 10
              and that is their job."[8]

                #25.4 - Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:59 AM EST
                Reply

                oh yes, the ole' scratch my back, i scratch yours.

                • 2 votes
                Reply#26 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:41 PM EST

                The DEA guys spent their time 'ON THE CLOCK' so to speak, looking for a hooker...wow, our taxdollars hard at work, huh? These clowns belong in jail!

                • 7 votes
                Reply#27 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:43 PM EST

                They were not on the clock"so to speak". The president had not yet even arived in Columbia. I find it kinda weird that so many are 'outraged' that a guy wants to get laid on his own time. Outragous!! lmao

                  #27.1 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:29 PM EST
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