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Joint Chiefs chairman: Secret Service sex scandal "let the boss down"
April 17, 2012
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many people were allegedly involved.

They have now had their security clearances revoked, and have been barred from all Secret Service facilities.

That includes two supervisors and several members of the counter-assault elite unit whose job is to hold off an attack on the president.

CBS News has been told that Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan was outraged and ordered the team out of Colombia before the president arrived.

On Monday, Sullivan sent a memo, obtained by CBS News, to all Secret Service offices worldwide. In it, he called the incident "embarrassing" and wrote, "It is my hope that each
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