Case Analysis

Case Analysis

Introduction

The case is about Obama's visit to Columbia when Secret Service Agents practiced prostitution in the hotel while they were doing their job. Obama came to Columbia to talk about trade relationship with other countries and brought several secret agents to protect him. The Department of Homeland Security United States initiated an independent investigation into the prostitution scandal that involved the Secret Service. The incident occurred in March, before the trip of President Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas in Colombia, involving the Secret Service and members of the armed forces, who allegedly had dealings with prostitutes. At least 24 people have been linked to the scandal: 12 Secret Service and 12 soldiers (Isikoff and Miklaszewski, 2012).

The paper discuses case analysis including case background, its effects on U.S. and Obama's image concerning the scandal.

Background of the case

The scandal involves 12 United States Secret Service men and Colombian prostitutes before the recent presidential visit to Colombia. This continues to cause international uproar. Two days before the U.S. president arrived in Cartagena to attend the Summit of the Americas, the agents who were in charge of the advanced security team, who had traveled ahead, hired services of sex workers in The Heroic and became the center of one of the biggest scandals in the history of the secret service, today questioned for putting in risk their sexual dalliances, the integrity of the president (Isikoff and Miklaszewski, 2012).

Because of the scandal in Colombia, after which 12 employees were laid off, the U.S. Secret Service imposed restrictions on their employees. Dania Suarez Londoño highlighted the issue and exposed the agents to make a fuss because some of them paid for their services and some of them did not. To speak until light and brash, she said that they went to a nightclub to dance with a partner and was there when a man approached him and asked if he wanted anything. According to her, at the club in which there were between 10 or 11 players who saw more alcohol and drinking a lot of climbing on the bar to dance, "they were drunk, bought alcohol and buy water."

Resulting outcomes

After the scandal, the Department of Homeland Security issued an investigation to determine whether this behavior in the secret service, or just a few actions. President Obama called for a thorough investigation and if found guilty, people will lose their jobs. This scandal has expressed concern about the leakage of confidential information, particularly around the president of the United States and Colombia relations. U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan apologized for the behavior of their employees, were part of a contingent of President Barack Obama, for the scandal with prostitutes during the state visit of President of Colombia in the past month. Now they are forbidden to bring in a hotel room abroad Foreign citizens who visit the institution of dubious reputation, and drinking alcohol less than 10 hours before the service. Restrictions will apply not only at work but ...