4th Quarter Current Event #2

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/secret-service-director-testifies-watching-investigating-whether-probe-was-rushed/2012/05/23/gJQAD2bQkU_blog.html

The director of the U.S. Secret Service publicly apologized today for the first time for the prostitution scandal that occurred in Colombia. Mark Sullivan said that the employees did some dumb things and their actions are not representative of the values and high ethical standards of the agency. The director testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the parent agency of the Secret Service continues to investigate how the director handled the whole situation. Sullivan enjoyed strong Congressional support before the scandal but is now facing increasingly skeptical lawmakers. He strongly disputed reports published by the Washington Post that detailed how tolerance for sexual misconduct and heaving partying and drinking is part of a culture some employees call the "Secret Circus."

I choose this article because I wanted to find out more about the Secret Service scandal and to see what progress has been made on it and whether or not it was a first time incident for the agency. The article was well written with the perspective and opinions of many different people. I enjoyed reading the article to find out more about the scandal and what the director of the Secret Service is doing to take care of it.