The allegations involved prostitution, according to Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post reporter and author of "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect."
"One of the agents did not pay one of the prostitutes, and she complained to the police," Kessler said.
Calling it "clearly the biggest scandal in Secret Service history," Kessler said 12 agents are accused of involvement in the incident "in one degree or another," from allegedly interfering in the investigation to participating in other alleged misconduct.
Nice.
Of course the Secret Service calls the report "a need to orchestrate an indictment by rumor." Oh gee, who's been hard at work doing that for the last month or so?
We don't need no steenkin' legitimate government in the United States, right?
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==== If it's true that "assault weapons" are "weapons of war" and don't belong on the streets of America, why do the police need them? Who are the police at war with?
Anyone believe this is the first time SS agents visited prostitutes in a foreign land?
Dream on...this is the norm...only difference is they didn't pay and the victim spoke up.
Move along people...nothing new here...
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A Leader, or an Opportunist? "A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things." Mitt Romney --- DebtPie's definition: a leader decides where "things" should head and "leads" us there.
SS and *****s... meh, not a big deal to me, but the bastard SHOULD have paid the workin' girl for her services. Jackass!
I'm MUCH more interested in the other link there, Karl. Has this been verified by other sources? Did his lawyer ACTUALLY ARGUE that the BC is obviously a forgery, but it DOESN'T ****ING MATTER!? If so, the end-game has begun. They're not even trying to hide their bull**** any longer; they know no one has the balls or ability to call them out on it. At least, no one at the higher levels who could actually make a difference.
Seriously, WHAT THE **** have we become? Congress, Joint Chiefs, ANYONE? Are you seeing what a laughing stock you've become? This imposter-in-chief is LAUGHING at you because you don't have the BALLS to do what needs to be done, legally or otherwise, since the law obviously means so little to the man in the Oval Office and his cohorts. Jesus it's only 12:30, and I need a BIG ****ing drink RFN.
ETA: I was busy typing when Steph was posting. We're so ****ed. It's truly ****ing over. Where the hell do we go from here? Where CAN we go?
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We're ****ed. Where's Henry Bowman when you need him?
The only problem I have with the prostitutes, is if the guys are married, than they are in the wrong. If not, no problemo. But pay the poor working girl for her "services". Geez, is that too much to ask?
Now they don't have a job. ;-) What goes around comes around! :-0
I'm MUCH more interested in the other link there, Karl. Has this been verified by other sources? Did his lawyer ACTUALLY ARGUE that the BC is obviously a forgery, but it DOESN'T ****ING MATTER!? If so, the end-game has begun. They're not even trying to hide their bull**** any longer; they know no one has the balls or ability to call them out on it. At least, no one at the higher levels who could actually make a difference.
This is just the Clinton "Biff". The Powers That Got The Guns will just "biff" your concerns off like waving off a very small gnat.
Where do you think I got my "peasant" meme? They did this during the impeachment wars. Who gives a **** if Clinton perjured, obstructed, tampered?
He were democratically elected, by gums, and doanchewfergitit.
Why do you think Corzine is walking around free? "You can tell he's a Lord, because 'e 'asn't got **** on 'im."
The Bifactional Banking Party will just point their loaded dirt weapons at each other in DC, and dare anybody to make a move over this.
Myself, I think that the Trayvon-Zimmerman thingee may be part of an end-game move. Summer of 2012 race riots, and they know they have the military in their pockets to deal with any peasants that have a problem with their rioting FSA stormtroopers. Sure, some of the military might kick, but the majority won't, and that's where I think they're at.
Fishhead wrote..
Uppity, I've begun to believe it will be more than riots, it will be civil war.
The "military in their pockets" theme still applies. The news media will do their thing, and the nation will be badly split. Make sure your food supplies are topped up. :)
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==== If it's true that "assault weapons" are "weapons of war" and don't belong on the streets of America, why do the police need them? Who are the police at war with?
Maybe the Secret Service guy was just used to whipping out his badge after being serviced on unsuspecting hookers in the states and getting away with it...
There is also the possibility that the agent paid a middle man for the girl and the middle man kept the money and disappeared.
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Need it or not, we don't have a legitimate government in this country, unless you can count your state government as legitimate. Can you?
We need to forget about national elections, and concentrate on taking back our state governments. If the situation in your state is hopeless, move to a freer state.
A two-thirds majority of the states can change the rules.
Widgeon
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Seems to me that the consequences for the nation of submitting admittedly forged documents to a court (and getting away with it?) is significantly weightier than the clinton imbroglio.
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When I was a kid, my dad always told me that the next big war we'd fight would be here, and it would be a race war. That seemed unlikely at the time, but now... not so much.
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Quote:
Make sure your food supplies are topped up.
Hunger Games. Why is it the book and movie are so popular. People know where this is going. We won't stop it because we never learn from history.
I know a Russian immigrant. She has been here 15 yrs. She is old enough to remember what it was like to live in the Soviet Union. I don't see her often, she is just an aquaintance. I ran into her a couple days ago. We were chatting and I asked her if she thought it was getting scary here. She told me stories of the "Papers, please" kind. Said she didn't come here to end up dealing with the same **** but it looks bad to her. And, don't even get her started on illegal immigrants. Oh, my..her face gets red and she starts talking about how she never asked for any help from the government, did everything on her own, with two young boys...etc.
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A poor person's farm may produce much food, but injustice sweeps it away. Proverbs 13:23 The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
Bozonian
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Saratoga Springs, New York
You should watch the actual hearing. It looks like the ******n New Jersey law is too complicated for the judge to figure out. When the judge asked, "Does is specifically say the candidate has to produce a birth certificate" Apuzzo should have said, "We have no argument with the means that are used to prove qualification", we are challenging the qualification itself. The witness was unnecessary and only hurt the case. Apuzzo got thrown off track over and over again.
There's another issue in here. Why did Obama's application for passport when he was 4 years old list his foreign name, when he ALREADY supposedly had a Hawaii Birth Certificate? The lawyer didn't pursue that!
The judge must have been terribly annoyed that this case was turning into a political discussion instead of strict legal theory.
Because these documents weren't authenticated I'm pretty sure the judge had already ruled against Apuzzo but was curious about all the evidence. I mean, this **** IS interesting if anything.
Personally, I could care less about the "eligibility". He's already president. That should have been thought about a long time ago.
What is particularly disgusting is the fact that source documents about Obama's past were supposedly forged or altered or destroyed which to me is a FAR WORSE indictment of the honor of the office of President if true.
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Once corruption rises in the management chain, it spreads rapidly throughout?
That's what I'm thinking too.
While it wouldn't shock me if this kind of thing has gone on in the past, we don't know that for sure. The secret service always seemed like a noble group that stayed above the tawdry behavior typical of politicians.
It's quite plausible that while watching Eric "Place" Holder play solitaire while banksters got away with wide scale foreclosure fraud and theft, some other government institutions have gotten the message that crime pays.
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