Washington, May 23 (ANI): Four U.S. Secret Service agents, who lost their jobs for their alleged involvement in the Colombian prostitution scandal, have planned to fight their dismissal.
They argued that they were made scapegoats for behaviour tolerated by the Secret Service for years, the New York Post reports.
However, some agents have told a very different story of what happened on the night in question to what has been widely reported.hey claimed that the Secret Service agents ventured out separately and met women at several locations, with some encounters resulting in consensual sex that did not involve money-changing hands.
One agent, a 29-year-old assigned to the Washington Office, told investigators during a polygraph test that he close to resign rather than being sacked.
He said he brought two women to his hotel room in Cartegena, but did not believe they were prostitutes. He is one of four agents seeking his job back.
Current and former Secret Service employees said there is an unwritten code of conduct for "what happens on the road, stays on the road," and sexual encounters during official travel were overlooked.
They said the organisation is known as the 'Secret Circus,' describing what happens when large numbers of agents arrive in a city.
Twelve agents were disciplined, or have lost their jobs following allegations that they brought prostitutes to their Cartagena hotel rooms before President Barack Obama's visit in Colombia for a diplomatic summit. (ANI)
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