BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- US President Barack Obama has called his secret service agents implicated in a Colombia prostitution scandal a "couple of knuckle heads". The statement came on an NBC interview with Obama, which was only the second time the President addressed the scandal in public.
Six Secret Service employees have left their jobs amid the scandal. And six more agents and 12 US military personnel remain under investigation. They are alleged to have taken as many as 21 prostitutes back to their beach front hotel in Colombia, just before Obama was about to arrive for a major summit earlier this month.
Homeland security officials insist that the President’s safety was not at risk that night. But the scandal has raised questions whether the Secret Service has a deeper cultural problem. It has also become the latest headache for Obama in his election year.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
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