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Senators investigating the Secret Service prostitution scandal said Wednesday that dozens of reported episodes of misconduct by agents point to a culture of carousing in the agency and urged Director Mark Sullivan to get past his insistence that the romp in Cartagena was a one-time mistake....

Testimony Wednesday for a Senate committee in Washington will be the director’s first public comments on the prostitution scandal in Colombia last month.

The White House's top counterterrorism adviser says the Secret Service scandal did not expose weak spots in the president's security.

Two more Secret Service employees have resigned and another two have been cleared as part of the ongoing prostitution scandal investigation.

There is nothing good to say about a scandal involving 12 Secret Service agents in a foreign country in advance of a presidential trip with 20 prostitutes and too much liquor.

A total of 23 Secret Service and military personnel have now been implicated in this month's prostitution scandal in Colombia.

The resignations would raise to six the number of members of the Secret Service forced out in the prostitution case.

Twenty or 21 women were brought back to a hotel in Colombia by U.S. Secret Service and military personnel in an incident last week involving alleged misconduct with prostitutes, U.S. Senator Susan Collins said on Tuesday.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has admitted, "We let the boss down" over allegations of misconduct involving prostitutes against at least 10 U.S. military members at a Colombia hotel on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit over the weekend.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is defending the head of the Secret Service in the Colombian incident involving agents and prostitutes.