Nick Collins released by Packers over health concerns
Washington P
The Packers later confirmed Collins' release, via a team statement. “From the beginning of this process, we have taken our time and sought numerous medical opinions while maintaining consistent dialogue with Nick," Packers general manager Ted Thompson The Green Bay Packers released safety Nick Collins on Wednesday amid concerns about his ability to return from [...]
Read MoreArmy cancels Ted Nugent's performance at Fort Knox over Obama comments
CNN Internat
After catching the Secret Service's attention with some inflammatory remarks about President Barack Obama, Ted Nugent has been removed from a concert lineup at a prominent military base. By Nick McCrea, BDN Staff BANGOR, Maine — Waterfront Concerts promoter Alex Gray said Sunday that he doesn't plan to call off Ted Nugent's Bangor performance despite [...]
Read MoreSecret Service scandal: Rising supervisor at heart of uncovering misconduct
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But La Dolce Vita, at the corner of First Street and Adm. Brión Avenue, sits one block from the Hotel Caribe, the epicenter of a mushrooming prostitution scandal involving 12 US Secret Service agents and 11 members of the US armed forces. (CNN) – President Barack Obama was briefed in the Oval Office Friday on [...]
Read MoreObama briefed as Secret Service scandal unfolds
Boston.com
By Dean Obeidallah, Special to CNN Musician Ted Nugent, shown at a GOP campaign rally in 2010, was interviewed last week by the Secret Service for his remarks about President Obama. Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a comedian and Former Secret Service agent Andrew O'Connell explains the role of the department's advanced [...]
Read More3 more Secret Service agents resign
CBS News
By KEN THOMAS | AP Washington • At least three more Secret Service officers implicated in a prostitution scandal in Colombia were expected to lose their jobs Friday, a federal official told The Associated Press, as the Pentagon separately acknowledged Moving swiftly, the Secret Service forced out three agents Wednesday, April 18, 2012 in a [...]
Read MoreSecret Service still the best and the brightest
CNN
Governor Sarah Palin's finding herself right, smack in the middle of the Colombian Secret Service scandal. Now, how could that be? Well, The Washington Post reporting one of the agents booted from the agency was part of Governor Palin's vice Three members of the Secret Service have been terminated for their involvement in a prostitution [...]
Read MoreTwo Secret Service agents ousted over scandal identified
CBS News
(CNN) — The U.S. Secret Service said Thursday that it has resolved any questions regarding rocker Ted Nugent, whom its agents interviewed after he said he would be "dead or in jail" if President Barack Obama were Spirit Airlines doesn't shy away from scandals. Instead, it uses them to sell tickets. Secret ServiceA top Secret [...]
Read MoreSource: Ousted Secret Service agent plans to sue
CBS News
In the 1962 Howard Lindsay-Russel Crouse-Irving Berlin Broadway musical, "Mr. President," one of the songs in the production is titled "The Secret Service," which begins, "the Secret Service makes me nervous" If allegations are true that at least 11 The Secret Service will interview Ted Nugent for his comments about President Obama, according to a [...]
Read MoreThree Secret Service agents dismissed amid scandal
Los Angeles
By the CNN Wire Staff Washington (CNN) — Three US Secret Service members will leave the agency because of an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia, the agency said Wednesday. One of them is a supervisory employee who is being allowed to retire, Colombian escort speaks: That Secret Service agent promised me $800; Update: Three Secret [...]
Read More3 agents out in wake of Secret Service scandal
Boston.com
GSA's birthday gift; Romney's got hope; and the Secret Service's blind spot? (read-this roundup) By Emily Heil Jeff Neely of the General Services Administration declines to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing . (CBS News) He carried a Secret Service badge for 31 years, but the former director of the agency, [...]
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