{"id":24833,"date":"2014-03-26T07:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24833"},"modified":"2014-03-26T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:17:50","slug":"secret-service-upholds-recent-tradition-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/secret-service-upholds-recent-tradition-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service upholds (recent) tradition in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-26743893#TWEET1082777\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BBC News<\/em><\/a> reports that &mdash; once again &mdash; some of the US Secret Service agents tasked with protecting the President have come to the attention of the press for reasons other than their assigned mission:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three US Secret Service agents tasked with protecting President Barack Obama in the Netherlands have been sent home for &#8220;disciplinary reasons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported that one was found drunk and passed out in the hallway of an Amsterdam hotel.<\/p>\n<p>A Secret Service spokesman declined to give details but said the three had been put on administrative leave pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The service has been trying to rebuild its reputation after previous scandals.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 two agents were removed from President Obama&#8217;s security detail amid allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>And in 2012 several agents were dismissed following allegations that they hired prostitutes while in Cartagena, Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the latest incident happened before President Obama&#8217;s arrival in the Netherlands on Monday for a nuclear security summit.<\/p>\n<p>He said the three had been sent home for &#8220;disciplinary reasons&#8221; but declined to elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Donovan added that the president&#8217;s security had not been compromised in any way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News reports that &mdash; once again &mdash; some of the US Secret Service agents tasked with protecting the President have come to the attention of the press for reasons other than their assigned mission: Three US Secret Service agents tasked with protecting President Barack Obama in the Netherlands have been sent home for &#8220;disciplinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,28,13],"tags":[158,222,413,334],"class_list":["post-24833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-media","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-netherlands","tag-scandal","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24834,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833\/revisions\/24834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}