http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/23/us/secret-service/index.html
A recent incident that occurred in Columbia involving members of the United States Military and member of the Secret Service has become very controversial. Allegedly a total of 24 members were involved in a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Columbia before Obama arrived. This could prove to be a huge scandal and issue for Obama, but most likely won't because Obama wasn't present while everything happened.
This is definitely an issue that must be addressed; Secret Service agents and Military personnel should not be doing anything like this while on the job. They have no excuses for acting the way they did in this situation. But this is probably another case of media dramatization. The media had blow this story out of proportion. The government will handle this issue and have already begun to deal with it. These soldiers should not have done what they did at all, but I don't think that the media needs to blow this story up any more then they already have.
The Republicans may try to use this in the upcoming elections if anythings else comes of this issue. But i don't think it is anything that Obama needs to work about. Obama, so far, hasn't done anything wrong in this situation. So he shouldn't have to worry about anything.
The main issue is that the Secret Service and Military members solicited the prostitutes. And were so blatantly obvious about the situation. The media may have over played this story, but it is definitely something that needed to be reported and released to the public in some way.
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