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RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): With new details unfolding all week about just what happened during the president's trip to the Summit of the Americas, the Associated Press is reporting the Secret Service has placed another employee newly implicated in the scandal on leave.
Officials tell the AP two more agents are resigning today, while another has been fired, bringing to six the Secret Service employees forced out so far.
For Secret Service agents, it's been a week of disclosures culminating in the news that more will lose their jobs. They were among 11 agents recalled from this hotel in Cartagena, Colombia, last week on allegations they used prostitutes they met at a local strip club.
The Washington Post today identified two of the three agents ousted earlier this week in the scandal. It turned out one of them, David Chaney, had posted a picture on Facebook of his time protecting Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008.
His comment read, "I was really checking her out, if you know what I mean."
UPDATE
"Shields, Brooks on Voter Volatility, Obama vs. Romney Over 'Big Visions'" PBS Newshour 4/20/2012
Leading excerpt on Secret Service
JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): First, an update on the Secret Service story.
A short time ago, the agency announced three more employees have resigned and one additional has been implicated. Another was cleared of serious misconduct, but will face administrative action.
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