Secret Service Agents In Sex Scandal

• White House defends Secret Service over sex claims

  The White House said on Friday President Barack Obama had "absolute confidence" in the Secret Service leaders, despite new reports of misconduct by agents, including extramarital affairs and visits to prostitutes.

• US Secret Service new rules: No boozing, racy bars

  No excessive drinking - and no alcohol at all within 10 hours of working. Disreputable establishments are off limits, as is entertaining foreigners in the hotel room. Those are among the tightened conduct rules the US Secret Service issued on Friday for its agents and employees. They apply even when traveling personnel are off duty. The new behav...

• US Secret Service sex scandal widens to El Salvador

  The Secret Service said on Thursday that it is investigating explosive new allegations of misconduct in El Salvador, broadening a sex scandal that a US lawmaker said may lead to changes in how agents do their work abroad.

• Secret Service probing another trip: US official

  The Secret Service is investigating news reports of other trips in which employees allegedly engaged the services of prostitutes while traveling abroad in advance of the president, an agency official said.

• Two more Secret Service agents resign over US sex scandal

  Two more Secret Service agents have resigned over the Colombia sex scandal and one more will have his security clearance permanently revoked, the elite presidential protection outfit said on Tuesday. "Two other employees have been cleared of serious misconduct," Assistant Secret Service Director Paul Morrissey said in a written statement. Six Sec...

• Sex scandal claims jobs of three Secret Service agents

  The US Secret Service said on Wednesday that three employees will leave their jobs over the sex scandal in a hotel in Colombia which tarnished the elite Presidential protection agency's image.

• Obama wants 'rigorous' Secret Service probe

  US President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he expected a "rigorous" probe into a sex scandal involving Secret Service agents, warning he would be "angry" if the claims were proven true. The incident, which saw 11 Secret Service and five military personnel pulled from their security duties in Colombia at the Summit of the Americas, overshadowed ...

• Obama Secret Service agents sent home for 'misconduct'

  In a rare move, some Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to help protect US President Barack Obama at a regional summit have been sent home amid accusations of a sex scandal, officials and reports said on Friday.