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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued a bulletin discussing possible terrorist attacks to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
WCBS 880′s Pat Carroll and Michael Wallace with Rep. Peter King
With the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Special Forces on Tuesday, federal agencies are advising attacks here and abroad would be viewed as "a symbolic victory" by terrorists.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Secret Service said two more agents have resigned and it was attempting to oust another, as the agency reached decisions on the fate of all 12 employees implicated in an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia two weeks ago.
A Republican lawmaker says three Secret Service employees are being forced out of the agency and two others have been cleared of serious misconduct in the agency's investigation into the prostitution scandal in Colombia.
Three more Secret Service employees were forced out of their jobs Tuesday, bringing the total number of agency employees to lose their jobs in the Colombia prostitution scandal to nine.
Two of the employees are resigning, while a third is having his security clearance revoked and will leave the agency, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the chairman of the
WASHINGTON — After the Secret Service scandal erupted nearly two weeks ago, the accusations of egregious behavior by the men entrusted with protecting President Obama seemed clear-cut. Members of Congress and tabloids depicted a dozen agency employees meeting prostitutes in their hotel rooms and drunken revels at brothels or strip clubs involving up to 20 women.
Congressman Peter King has written to the U.S. Secret Service, asking whether classified information or federal property were compromised during the alleged misconduct of agency staff earlier this month in Colombia.
More Secret Service agents will take the fall in the Colombia sexcapades scandal, but the agency’s chief is secure at this point, a top Congressman said Sunday.
Congressman Peter King, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said additional agents will join the six who have already been forced out.
Three Secret Service employees will leave the agency amid the fallout from the Colombian prostitution sex scandal.
Those three are among the 11 members of the Secret Service — and at least five military personnel — involved in the incident that occurred ahead of President Barack Obama’s trip to South America for the Summit of the Americas.
Three of the Secret Service agents who caroused with hookers in Colombia were booted Wednesday as more salacious details emerged about the tawdry dispute over payment that kicked off the sex scandal.
Secret Service Assistant Director Paul Morrissey said one supervisor was “allowed to retire,” another supervisor was fired — and a third agent quit.
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