Obama`s CAT members sent home!

President Obama visited Amsterdam yesterday after a nuclear security summit in The Hague. Credit: AP
The US Secret Service has sent three of its agents home from Amsterdam shortly before president Barack Obama was due to arrive there, according to US media reports.
One agent was found drunk and passed out in the hallway of a hotel, the Washington Post reported.
The report added that the agents were on the Counter Assault Team, which defends the president if he comes under attack.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the three were placed on administrative leave for "disciplinary reasons" but that Obama's security had not been compromised.

The Secret service hasn't really had great publicity under Obama.
See the below article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/colombia-secret-service-scandal

Secret Service Fires Elite Agents, Imposes New Rules After Latest Scandals

The Secret Service has responded to the latest reports of its agents acting inappropriately with new regulations for off-duty employees, and a series of shake-ups among its most elite bodyguards, including the top agent of the special operations division.
Dan Donahue, the special agent in charge of that section, has been reassigned to another office, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the story. Multiple other agents from that division, considered among the most highly trained in the Secret Service arsenal, have also been reassigned.
Two agents were involved in a car crash in Miami earlier in March, prompting the service to caution its agents against getting into trouble. Later that month, at least one agent within this unit was caught drunk in the corridor of his Amsterdam hotel ahead of a visit there by President Barack Obama. Three agents were immediately sent home from the Netherlands as a result. A total of five have been implicated so far in that latest incident.
An incident in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2012, involving at least one agent soliciting a prostitute, prompted new rules for Secret Service bodyguards including restrictions on drinking alcohol within 10 hours of reporting for duty. The agent caught drunk in the Netherlands had violated that rule.


“Personnel are being reassigned as a result of staffing rotations and as a result of assessments made after two recent incidents of misconduct,” said agency spokesman Ed Donovan, according to the Post. Newly minted Director Julie Pierson, the first woman in charge of the presidential bodyguard cadre, maintains “a zero-tolerance policy regarding incidents of misconduct and continues to evaluate the best human-capital practices and policies for the workforce,” he said.
Agents now may not consume alcohol within 12 hours of reporting for duty, and 24 hours before the president’s arrival on a foreign trip, reports the Post.
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Secret Service experts and former agents have claimed this string of embarrassing incidents amounts to a crisis of leadership. The agency has traditionally relied on ethics and leadership training from prospective employees’ previous jobs within the military or in law enforcement elsewhere. But this may no longer be enough.
‘The Secret Service is awash with managers, but has very few leaders,” former Special Agent Dan Emmett, a 21-year veteran who guarded three presidents, told U.S. News in March. He calls on the agency to conduct a thorough shakeup of its management, including hiring from outside the agency for top positions.
Mike Rolin, the former deputy supervisor for the Secret Service’s Washington field office, will assume command of the special operations division, the Post reports.