"As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved."

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Source : "Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal". Article by Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura, www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

Carol D. Leonnig

#Military Quotes #Two Quotes #White Quotes

“My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.”
“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
“It is by doing anything that we become anyone”
“There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.”

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“I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.”
“I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.”
“He hadnâ€™t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadnâ€™t even been the first sheâ€™d loved. Heâ€™d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. Heâ€™d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadnâ€™t drowned.”

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