OBAMA NAMES FIRST WOMAN TO HEAD US SECRET SERVICE
US President Barack Obama has picked the first woman director of the Secret Service.
Julia Pierson, formerly Secret Service chief of staff, will
succeed Mark Sullivan, who announced last month that he would retire.
The agency was caught up in a prostitution scandal last year during a presidential visit to Colombia.
The Secret Service investigates financial crimes, and protects the president and his family.
"Over her 30 years of experience with the Secret Service,
Julia has consistently exemplified the spirit and dedication the men and
women of the service demonstrate every day," Mr Obama said in a
statement.
"Julia has had an exemplary career, and I know these
experiences will guide her as she takes on this new challenge to lead
the impressive men and women of this important agency."
Ms Pierson, originally from Florida, joined the Secret Service's Miami Field Office in 1983.
From 1988, she spent four years with the Presidential Protective Division.
Ms Pierson's appointment does not require confirmation by Congress.
Source: BBC
20 COLOMBIAN HOOKERS IN US SECRET SERVICE AGENTS' ROOMS?
Cocaine and several bottles of whiskey apparently fueled the elite agents’ boneheaded fling with about 20 hookers at a posh hotel in Cartagena, Colombia, a hotel staffer told The Post.The employee responded to the trashed room with police and other Hotel El Caribe workers when one prostitute raised hell after a Secret Service member initially refused to pay her.
He painted a picture of morning-after mayhem in the lobby — just two days before President Obama landed in the country for an international summit.- “The prostitute was screaming in the lobby that he didn’t pay her,” the early-morning shift worker recalled. “She looked like she had a few drinks in her. She just wanted what was promised to her.
- The prostitution scandal involving the US Secret Service has grown in scope. It was disclosured that the agents and military personnel had been with at least 20 women in hotel rooms before President Barack Obama arrived in Colombia for a summit with Latin American leaders.
On Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he would "clean house" at the agency in the wake of the incident, which had become a growing election-year embarrassment for the White House.Romney, however, said he remained confident in Secret Service director Mark Sullivan, echoing other statements of support for the agency chief from the White House and Capitol Hill.
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