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Secret Service issues new rules for agents
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Foreign nationals prohibited from agents' hotel rooms
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- Date Apr 28, 2012
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Turning to other news now -- no drinking no trips to racing bars seems pretty obvious right.
-- hoping to put the reason prostitution scandal behind and the Secret Service has issued new rules for agents those rules come as a deadline for answers from the White House comes and goes on cancer.
I have actually -- now with more on this -- -- -- and a Secret Service says it's going to conduct an ethics training session with its agents next week.
In the -- from Secret Service director mark Sullivan's -- sent agents are always expected in their personal and professional lives.
To conduct themselves in a manner that reflects the highest standards of the United States government.
But in view of the prostitution scandal Sullivan thought it was necessary to -- out for the agents that.
Quote foreign nationals excluding -- health -- an official law enforcement counterparts.
Are prohibited in your hotel room.
H renovation of -- reputable establishments.
Is prohibited and alcohol use is prohibited within ten hours of reporting for duty.
That's all well and good -- Iowa Republican senator Chuck Grassley the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee which has oversight over the Secret Service.
But he says the new rules don't negate the previous actions and he maintains that quote it remains necessary to hold the agency and the agents accountable.
Following a complete an independent investigation.
Grassley wants an independent investigation also into whether any White House staffers were tied up in the scandal in Columbia.
The White House says Catherine rambler its in house counsel looked into it and found no wrongdoing.
The Grassley says an outsider needs to do the investigating.
He sent a letter with fourteen questions about White House staff on the trip to the White House and asked for a response by this past Thursday night.
Senator Grassley says he never got -- answer from the White House.
-- thank you.