President Obama’s spokesman charged Republican members of Congress with trying to score political points off of the Secret Service sex scandal in an election year.
“I have no comment to make on that specific thing,” Carney said when asked about the Secret Service agent planning to sue after he was forced out over the prostitution scandal. “Contrary to the efforts of some, apparently, in Congress, this has nothing to do with politics or the election,” he added.
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Three Secret Service agents’ careers are already over as a result of the scandal. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., predicted that even more agents will be fired before the dust settles.
The Colombian woman at the center of the scandal says she reported a Secret Service agent to the police after he refused to pay the $800 fee they’d agreed upon in Cartegena, Colombia, where prostitution is legal.
President Obama “will be angry,” his spokesman says, if the charges against agents are verified by a full investigation.
