with the escort in Colombia, and the scandal has cost him his job and
forced his family to move.
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CNN identified him using records from the hotel where the dispute took place. CNN attempted to contact Huntington, but didn't have any luck getting him to say anything on the record.
Huntington declined comment when they called him on Thursday, so CNN
went to his house and the family declined comment again, this time by
closing the door forcefully when they tried to knock with a camera crew
on their front lawn. Huntington left the Secret Service after the scandal was first reported. The house was put up for sale this week.
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In all, eight Secret Service agents have been released since the scandal broke, three have been
relieved of any serious misconduct, and one agent's security clearance
is bring downgraded, which would effectively force them to resign.
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The Secret Service also unveiled a new standard and ethics policy on Friday. The AP were the first to leak the new rules for agents on duty. As they point out, the memo
doesn't outlaw prostitutes or strip clubs by name, but the new rules
prohibit any foreign nationals from entering an agent's hotel room and
bans "patronization of non-reputable establishments," which is
memo-speak for "don't go to any more strip clubs, please." Drinking is
still allowed while an agent is off duty, but not within ten hours of an assignment. Politico has the whole memo uploaded here.
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The Secret Service's reputation has a questionable past, which the
Post described as a "'Mad Men'-era" where agent's used to use the mantra "wheels up, rings off" while travelling on the job. A former agent
speaking anonymously told the Post that, "If every boss was
Paula Reid, the Secret Service would never have a problem [...] It would be a lot more boring, but never a problem." The profile paints Reid as a no-nonsense hard worker who, according to another former colleague, can quote the agency's administrative manual "like fundamentalists quote
the Bible." Reid told the Post that she's still working on the investigation, and sounds like it's taken straight from an agency handbook:
"I am confident that as an agency we'll determine exactly what happened
and take appropriate action," she said in the interview with her and an
agency spokesman. "Despite this current challenge facing the Secret
Service, my job is to keep Miami personnel focused on our core
protective and investigative missions. Anything less is
counterproductive to the many critical functions we perform each day."
Reid's been with the Secret Service for twenty-one years, and just recently
became the head of the Miami Bureau office, which handles all of the
Secret Service's South American assignments. When the news first broke
that a prostitue was disturbing hotel guests because an agent tried to
get out of paying her, the decision to act fell on her shoulders. She
rounded up the eleven agents and, with approval from her supervisor,
sent them home.
David Axelrod told CNN's "State of the Union" that more firings could be expected as the investigation goes on. Three agents were released on Saturday, and a total of six have been forced out since news of the scandal first broke.
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