Obama’s drunk guards sent home

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Three Secret Service agents tasked with protecting US President Barack Obama during his visit to Amsterdam this week were sent home after a night of drinking, with one found passed out in a hotel hallway, the Washington Post said. The 3 agents have been placed on administrative leave, the newspaper said, quoting unnamed sources. The embarrassing incident comes two years after an April 2012 scandal involving Secret Service agents and prostitutes in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena. In the new case, the alleged behavior would violate Secret Service rules adopted after the Cartagena scandal.

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