{"id":6115,"date":"2015-06-26T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/15\/twitter-reacts-to-growing-secret-service-scandal\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:45:39","slug":"twitter-reacts-to-growing-secret-servicescandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/6115","title":{"rendered":"Twitter reacts to growing Secret Service&nbsp;scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/04\/14\/11203295-secret-service-suspends-11-employees-night-with-presumed-prostitutes-detailed\">the Secret Service has suspended 11 employees<\/a>&nbsp;after nearly all of them allegedly brought Columbian prostitutes back to their hotel rooms.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the 11 agents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2129916\/Close-11-Secret-Service-agents-Colombian-prostitution-scandal-women-hotel.html\">were married.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>five members of the U.S. military, who were working alongside the Secret Service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2129916\/Close-11-Secret-Service-agents-Colombian-prostitution-scandal-women-hotel.html\">may also be involved<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The partying was exposed when one of the prostitutes caused a ruckus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2129916\/Close-11-Secret-Service-agents-Colombian-prostitution-scandal-women-hotel.html\">after an agent refused to pay her<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The going rate for hookers in Cartagena, Columbia,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/privateinvesigations.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/secret-service-hooker-flap-over-47.html?spref=tw\">is reportedly about $47.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>White House press secretary Jay Carney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2012\/04\/14\/carney_not_appropriate_for_obama_to_comment_on_ongoing_secret_service_investigation.html\">said<\/a> “it would not be appropriate” for President Obama to comment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Naturally, Twitter users couldn’t resist commenting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BorowitzReport\/status\/191286729947365376\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BorowitzReport\/status\/191286729947365376<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Secret Service agents alleged to have brought HOs to the their hotel rooms. Only politicians they protect are allowed to do that on our $$<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The TN Conservative (@TennConserv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennConserv\/status\/191476826781138945\">April 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p>With the GSA scandal and then the Secret Service, it&#039;s almost like there&#039;s a climate of corruption wafting thru DC.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Do You Remember (@RennaW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RennaW\/status\/191380211244335104\">April 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TwitTurdDaily\/status\/191447134657183744\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TwitTurdDaily\/status\/191447134657183744<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Someone should tell the Secret Service the idea is to catch the *bad guys* with their pants down. And &quot;pants down&quot; is an Idiom- not literal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Royce Eddington (@RoyceEddington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyceEddington\/status\/191446843920613376\">April 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p>I don&#039;t care that the American Secret Service bangs hookers … &#010;I have a problem with them not being able to keep it secret !!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John v\/d Lely &clubs;&hearts;&spades;&diams; (@gewoon_John) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gewoon_John\/status\/191434857107300352\">April 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/15\/twitter-reacts-to-growing-secret-service-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/15\/twitter-reacts-to-growing-secret-service-scandal\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news: the Secret Service has suspended 11 employees&nbsp;after nearly all of them allegedly brought Columbian prostitutes back to their hotel rooms. Many of the 11 agents were married. five members of the U.S. military, who were working alongside the Secret Service, may also be involved. The partying was exposed when one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/6115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter reacts to growing Secret Service&nbsp;scandal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14352903523310-legs-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}