Secret Service Head Backs Agent Firings, Lawmaker Says
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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan was so upset by allegations that 11 agents and officers consorted with prostitutes in Colombia that he voiced frustration over government rules barring their immediate dismissal, Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings said.
The Secret Service chief told Cummings during a one-hour meeting April 17 that “if it were up to him, every single one of them would have been fired on the spot,” the Democratic lawmaker told reporters.