Oooo, we all knew this was coming

[IIOY]

Four of the dismissed Secret Service agents are challenging their dismissals, claiming they are being scapegoated for behavior that has long been tolerated (woot!) by SS. From a WashPo email update:

Four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals for engaging in inappropriate conduct in Colombia last month, a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents’ hiring of prostitutes.

The agents are arguing the agency is scapegoating them for behavior that the Secret Service has long tolerated, a charge Director Mark Sullivan may have to address when he appears before a Senate committee Wednesday. He has not yet spoken in public about the controversy, but according to his prepared testimony, he plans to tell Congress there was no breach of operational security.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Snitches get stitches, yo.

[ttt]

Everyone was having a fine and dandy time with prostitutes in foreign countries until these tools had to go and ruin it by cheaping out.

Pay your hookers, guys!

[MrsAxilla]

May 22, 2012 21:22:23 GMT -5 ttt said:

Everyone was having a fine and dandy time with prostitutes in foreign countries until these tools had to go and ruin it by cheaping out.

Pay your hookers, guys!

Ha! Ditto. I'm not sure, but I'd think they don't have a case unless they can rest it on discrimination somehow. Just because people broke the rules before doesn't mean it's ok to break them now, unless white guys under 40 were allowed to break them and black dudes weren't. But that's not the case here.

[WOT?*]

They would still totally have their jobs if the one guy didn't go all Jerry Springer. (Or worse. At least Jerry paid with a bad check rather than refused payment outright.)