it has fancy pools. it has green gardens. fountains. balconies. lots to see. lots to do. and a little time to kill in this magical caribbean wonderland. what happened in colombia before the president got there for that trip was something out of the movie the hangover except it did not include zach galifanakis, bradley cooper, or a baby. it rather included the president s secret service. the relevant settings for understanding the course of that night include a fancy local strip club called the hard rock excuse me, a strip club, the hard rock cafe, and a popular disco bar called tu candela. then there was the hooker situation. back at the fancy hotel after a negotiation of terms and some services rendered, there was apparently a dispute between two guys from the secret service and the young lady they had brought back to the hotel with them. she ended up complaining to the local police. the police ended up contacting the u.s. embassy and that ended up with not just them but other sec
the relevant settings for understanding the course of that night include a fancy local strip club called the hard rock cafe, and a popular disco bar called tu candela. then there was the hooker situation. back at the fancy hotel after a negotiation of terms and some services rendered, there was apparently a dispute between two guys from the secret service and the young lady they had brought back to the hotel with them. she ended up complaining to the local police. the police ended up contacting the u.s. embassy and that ended up with not just them but other secret service agents getting outed for also bringing paid lady friends back to the hotel as well as for some rather epic drunkenness. the president s big trip to the summit of the americas is basically totally overshadowed and remembered now for the secret service s drunken carousing and perhaps criminal cheapness when it comes to paying for sex while on official
0 he washed out after getting injured in a training accident. he tells the guardian that he then got a job working as a security guard at a covert nsa facility at the university of maryland. he says he then got a job with the cia working computer security which seems like quite a leap from security guard to cia computer guy. but reportedly his computer skills, his internet skills, in particular, put him on the fast track in the intelligence world. then he says the cia posted him to switzerland under diplomatic cover maintaining computer network security. then he left government work for life in the private sector with high-paying jobs for at least two different intelligence contractors doing the same kind of work he had been doing for the government but now he was working for outside firms and getting paid bank. if you think about it, this guy has had one hell of a career trajectory, right? from high school dropout to army washout to making $200,000 a year doing highly classified int
0 time when he said, what you re doing is absolutely needed, one of the hackers in the back of the room then yelled back at the general, then stop arresting us! complex. right? last week in competing bombshell scoops, first the washington post and a few minutes later the guardian both reported on the existence of a giant u.s. surveillance system at the nsa called prism. the system vacuums up information from some of the largest internet companies in the country. stuff like your videos and your pictures and e-mails, your chats. so those things are not just traveling between you and whatever you are corresponding with on purpose, they are in a sense being diverted into the data caches of the u.s. government. the stories came with classified slides, leaked from what looked like nsa training materials. showing which internet companies were said to have customers private date to flowing into this prism thing and when that flow of data began for each. leaked anonymously to the washingt