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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (652695)4/25/2012 1:47:01 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1583554
 
Obama Blames 'Knuckleheads' for Scandal at Secret Service

3 MORE AGENTS ARE OUT OF JOBS

By John Johnson, Newser Staff
newser.com
Posted Apr 24, 2012 5:48 PM CDT

(NEWSER) – President Obama tried to defuse the Secret Service scandal a bit during an interview with Jimmy Fallon that airs tonight, reports USA Today. The agents on the whole are "incredible," said Obama. “They protect me, they protect our girls. A couple of knuckleheads shouldn’t detract from what they do. What they were thinking, I don’t know. That’s why they’re not there anymore.”

Along those lines, three more agents involved in the Colombian scandal lost their jobs today, reports the Washington Post. Two resigned and another lost his security clearance, which disqualifies him from the Secret Service (pending appeal) but not necessarily from work at another federal agency. Two others were cleared of serious charges but face administrative action. That settles all 12 cases. Of those, nine agents are (or will be) gone from the service and three were cleared of serious misconduct.
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