奧巴馬三保鏢因酒醉事件被提前遣返回國
The Secret Service has sent three agents home from the Netherlands just before President Barack Obama's arrival after one agent was found inebriated in an Amsterdam hotel.
The three agents were sent back to rhe US for "disciplinary reasons," said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan, declining to elaborate. Mr Donovan said the incident was prior to Mr Obama's arrival on Monday in the country and did not compromise the president's security in any way.
Still, the incident represents a fresh blemish for an elite agency struggling to rehabilitate its reputation following a high-profile prostitution scandal and other allegations of misconduct. An inspector general's report in December concluded there was no evidence of widespread misconduct, in line with the service's longstanding assertion that it has no tolerance for inappropriate behavior.
The agents sent home from Amsterdam were placed on administrative leave, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the disciplinary action. The newspaper said all three were on the Counter Assault Team, which defends the president if he comes under attack, and that one agent was a "team leader."
One agent was discovered highly intoxicated by staff at a hotel, who reported it to the US Embassy, said a person familiar with the situation, who wasn't authorised to discuss the alleged behaviour on the record and demanded anonymity. The other two agents were deemed complicit because they didn't intervene despite being in a position to assist the drunken agent or tamp down his behavior, the person said.
"It wasn't like a big, crazy party," the person said.
Mr Obama arrived in the Netherlands early Monday on the first leg of a weeklong, four-country trip. He departed for Brussels on Tuesday night, and there were no known security issues during his stay in the Netherlands.據英國《每日電訊》報道，就在美國總統貝拉克·奧巴馬到達阿姆斯特丹之前，特勤處因一名特工在阿姆斯特丹的一家酒店裏酗酒而將三個特工遣送回國。
特勤局發言人埃德·多偌萬（Ed Donovan）表示，因“紀律問題”將這三名特工遣回美國，但他拒絕透露詳細情況。多偌萬稱，這一事件是在奧巴馬3月24日抵達荷蘭之前發生的，沒有對奧巴馬總統的安全造成任何威脅。
然而，這一事件卻給這個精英機構抹上了污點，而此時，他們正努力從那些的招妓醜聞和一些不當行爲的指控中走出來。一位檢察長在12月的報告指出，沒有證據證明廣爲流傳的不當行爲，這與特勤局長期的斷言一致，他們絕不容許不當行爲。
據首先爆出這起違紀事件的《華盛頓郵報》報道，從阿姆斯特丹遣回的特工處於行政停職狀態。該報稱涉事三人都來自反攻擊小組（Counter Assault Team）——在總統受到攻擊時保護總統，其中一人還是“團隊負責人”。
據一名知情人士透露，一名酒店工作人員發現一名特工醉醺醺的，並將此事告知了美國大使館，但是，該名知情人士無授權公開討論記錄的涉嫌行爲並要求匿名。該知情人士稱，另外兩個特工被認定串通一氣，因爲他們在輔助那名特工的位置，卻沒有干涉灑醉特工的行爲或是阻止他。
該知情人士說：“那並不像一個瘋狂的派對。“
奧巴馬在3月24日上午抵達荷蘭，這是他爲期一週的歐洲四國之旅的第一站。25日晚，他離開荷蘭前往布魯塞爾。在荷蘭訪問期間，未出現任何安全問題。
