Report: Secret Service Agents Partied with Strippers, Hookers in El Salvador

By RANDY KREIDER April 26, 2012 A group of Secret Service agents allegedly visited a strip club and paid for sexual favors during an advance trip to El Salvador just days before President Obama's official visit there in March 2011, an unnamed source told CBS Seattle affiliate KIRO-TV. The Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is investigating the claim, which comes days after the agency fired eight agents for their meetings with prostitutes in Colombia ahead of a presidential visit. "The recent investigation in Cartagena has generated several news stories that contain allegations by mostly unnamed sources," Secret Service spokesman Max Milien told ABC News. "Any information that is brought to our attention that can be assessed as credible will be followed up on in an appropriate manner." According to the report, a U.S. government subcontractor who "worked extensively with the Secret Service advance team" saw a majority of the group of about a dozen Secret Service agents and a few U.S. military specialists who were on the trip get "wasted" at the strip club in San Salvador before paying to enter a VIP area and receive sexual favors. At least two of the agents brought escorts, who may or may not have been strip club employees, into their hotel rooms during the trip, according to the report. The source claims he attempted to dissuade the agents, but that they boasted that they "did this all the time" and "not to worry about it." Yuri Cortez/AFP/Newscom US secret service snipers, who were in place... View Full Size Secret Service Sex Scandal: Obama Weighs In Watch Video Secret Service Scandal Whistle Blower Watch Video Secret Service Scandal Watch Video The new report adds to the allegations of misconduct against Secret Service agents, after a scandal erupted around Secret Service agents' meetings with prostitutes during a trip earlier this month to Cartagena, Colombia ahead of President Obama's arrival there for an international summit. This week, the Secret Service announced that it had dealt with all 12 agents and supervisors implicated in the Cartagena scandal, with eight losing their jobs over their involvement in the ordeal. During a trip to Brazil Tuesday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized for an incident in 2011 when three Marine guards allegedly fought with a prostitute in a car and then allegedly tossed her out of their moving car, injuring her. Two Marines were demoted and a U.S. embassy employee was removed from his post in connection with the incident. A State Department spokeswoman denied the woman was thrown from the car, and said she was injured when she tried to get back into the car. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that if the Cartagena scandal had been part of a pattern, "that would be a surprise to me."