White House staff involved in Cartagena brothel scandal?

Will the Cartagena brothel case make an unwelcome reappearance in the middle of Barack Obama’s re-election efforts?  That’s what sources from law enforcement and Capitol Hill told Fox News yesterday, saying that an upcoming report on the Secret Service scandal will also name two White House staffers as suspects:

Federal law enforcement personnel and a congressional committee are anxiously awaiting an overdue inspector general’s report that they believe may reveal the involvement of two White House advance team members in the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia earlier this year.
While much of the attention in the case has focused on the actions of Secret Service personnel, multiple law enforcement and congressional sources tell FoxNews.com that investigators also discovered two White House advance team members checked in prostitutes as overnight guests at a Cartagena hotel in the days before President Obama’s April 13 visit.
“Three U.S. delegation members that stayed at the Hilton brought prostitutes back as overnight guests. One of them was ours (Secret Service) and the other two were White House staffers,” a high-ranking Secret Service official told FoxNews.com. “We knew very early that White House staffers were involved.”

Actually, the worry is that the report won’t name names in the White House.  The Senate Homeland Security Committee has apparently long known of the involvement of the White House staffers, and expected to have that information formally from the IG when the report was due in July.  The report has been delayed, however, while the IG allows the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security to comment on its findings.  That has members of the committee wondering whether the IG will include that commentary separately, or plans to change the report after the comments but before the report is presented to the committee.

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