Four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals for engaging in inappropriate conduct in Colombia last month, a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents' hiring of prostitutes.
The agents are arguing the agency is scapegoating them for behavior that the Secret Service has long tolerated, a charge Director Mark Sullivan may have to address when he appears before a Senate committee Wednesday. He has not yet spoken in public about the controversy, but according to his prepared testimony, he plans to tell Congress there was no breach of operational security.