The public disclosure last month that a dozen Secret Service agents and officers had gone out for a night of heavy drinking while on a presidential business trip to Colombia and returned to their hotel rooms with prostitutes raised questions about the agency’s culture, and whether Director Mark Sullivan would keep his job. As President Obama faced a stream of questions about his bodyguards rather than his international economic summit in Colombia, Sullivan assured the White House and Congress he would move rapidly to investigate and root out the problem agents. Some individual agents whom the Secret Service identified as bringing women to their Cartagena hotel rooms the night of April 11 were subjected to multiple polygraphs, a departure from past practice, according to those ... Continue reading →

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Posted at 11:40 AM ET, 04/18/2012 In wake of GSA scandal, Harry Reid and Dean Heller agree on something: Las Vegas rocks By Ed O'Keefe | 11:40 AM ET, 04/18/2012 | Permalink | Comments ( 0) Posted at 11:00 AM ET, 04/18/2012 Boehner: Obama ‘checked out’ last Labor Day House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) says he is not optimistic that Congress will make much progress on economic matters or much of anything else before Election Day, and blames President Obama for focusing too much on his reelection. Speaking Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” Boehner said Obama “checked out last Labor Day. All he’s done is campaign full time for the last six months. He’s not been engaged in the legislative process at all. There ... Continue reading →