Secret Service To Undergo Ethics Training

LAUREL, Md. -- U.S. Secret Service agents will be getting ethics training from professors at Johns Hopkins University following a prostitution scandal in Colombia.

About 100 agents will take part in two days of training this week in Laurel, Md., outside Washington. The Secret Service had previously scheduled training for 20 agents. It expanded the program after allegations that 12 of its agents hired prostitutes in Cartagena days before President Barack Obama arrived in the country for a summit.

Officials say the university was an obvious choice for the effort because of its past work with the Secret Service.

The Secret Service has also announced new conduct rules for its agents, including prohibiting them from drinking excessively or bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms.

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[RANJAN3P]

09:41 AM on 05/02/2012

I spent my Thanksgiving, bleeding; I spent my Christmas bleeding, I spent my New year bleeding, I spent my Birthday bleeding, ... Who will give them some ethics training?

Ken Kasowitz iassaulted me sexually & Optionetics instructors sleep with him & harass me in class:

My abuser's name is Ken Kasowitz and I don't know how he is related to optionetics. He keeps grabbing at my clothes and my private parts both in public and in private, & last june, in addition to sexual harassment, he had his fist on my face and forced me to look into his eyes. He also mentioned I shouldn't be there. Every time he finds me somewhere, he asks me why I'm there. Why do I have to answer to intimidation and threat? My body responds to trauma in a very specific manner, I bleed non-stop & this has happened both times ... first time I took expired medication to stop it, this time my trauma symptoms visibly continued for 4 months.

Recently, an Optionetics instructor, Nick Gazzolo, discussed me in class with his front row students, he refused to answer my questions and gave me a chest pain in class; and when I went to Oasis (their super summit), sent my abuser to assault me again. He and the others discuss me with my abuser all the time. Due to this assault my body is traumatized.

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[vallontina]

08:23 PM on 05/01/2012

Hmmmm..maybe this should have been a part of their employment orientation and something listed in the handbook?

[Eagleman]

06:05 PM on 05/01/2012

They should hire Eunuchs for secret services like the Ottomans and Romans

[1swimmom]

05:29 PM on 05/01/2012

Cheat on your wives on your time off, not on the people's time.

[ttsgw]

04:55 PM on 05/01/2012

So they will no longer be allowed to visit prostitutes and bragging about coming from SS?

[CoronaDischarge]

03:57 PM on 05/01/2012

This will tend to weed out the Republicans who are serving.

[Tailoff]

08:47 PM on 05/01/2012

It won't weed out the Democrats because nobody expects any better from them.

[Zagorka]

03:48 PM on 05/01/2012

I think the whole world needs ethics training. You don't think this is something new and isolated? If we only had true transparency......what a different world it would be

[Iya Sapa Mato]

03:16 PM on 05/01/2012

Why close the paddock gate now now they have already run wild! It is spring, breeding season.

[wzntmethistime]

03:16 PM on 05/01/2012

training at their own expense? or more taxpayer money? rediculous

[PJ Parker]

05:25 PM on 05/01/2012

It would be a lot cheaper to train them for two days, than to go through this again, or worse, if it led to an infiltration.

[artfishtales]

02:58 PM on 05/01/2012

gee the secret service was doing this for all these years who has been in charge of running the show.boy I hope these this bunch hasnt been in charge of other high risk security projects involveing the lives of American public.lots of serious questions.who is worst threat to us home grown terrorist?

[dzkar]

02:24 PM on 05/01/2012

I understand Clinton will be teaching them

[cherokee1934]

04:37 PM on 05/01/2012

(lol)

[nocnurzfred1]

02:11 PM on 05/01/2012

At least combine this ridiculous class with the "Will you take a bullet for the President?" class.

[fxcruiser]

02:07 PM on 05/01/2012

Your Secret Service Joke of the day: What do you call a condom with the Presidents Seal on it? Answer: Secret Service Protection.

[KMoore4318]

03:20 PM on 05/01/2012

Also good for keeping moisture out of a barrel; just ask any sharp shooter, and thus they can be written off as a ligament business expense for secret service. Just one of the perks :)

[fxcruiser]

03:34 PM on 05/01/2012

Roger that, KMoore!

[Dmpolis]

02:01 PM on 05/01/2012

Ethics as yes it is a shame our guys did not listen the first time. All the guys at work had to take harassment training. It happens every year. Personal space is 2 and 1/2 feet around the person you may want to harrass. Can't get to sexy if that rule is obeyed. I hope they learned their lesson. This time....

[jayuucee]

02:00 PM on 05/01/2012

I think the politicians should have ethics training as well. They look out for themselves and not the people who put them in office.

[fxcruiser]

02:07 PM on 05/01/2012

From the top down!

[jayuucee]

02:51 PM on 05/01/2012

Agreed 100%.