Mr Axelrod told CNN’s “State of the Union” that he always felt the
agents were willing to do anything to protect the president and the people
around him. He called the agents’ conduct in Colombia “really
disappointing.”
“I was surprised by it,” he said, adding, “You know, people
being what they are, you’re never totally surprised. In any organisation,
things can go wrong.” Mr Axelrod worked at the White House before
leaving last year to work full time in Mr Obama’s re-election campaign
headquarters in Chicago.
He later told NBC that “on the whole, the Secret Service does heroic
work. This is quite disturbing. We have to get to the bottom of this, and
I’m sure we will.”
Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee, expressed similar views and said there is “no
evidence that information was compromised” in the incident.
But, he told “Fox News Sunday” that “history is full of cases
where enemies have compromised people and security or intelligence … with
sex.”
“They were not acting like Secret Service agents. They were acting like a
bunch of college students away on a spring student weekend,” said Mr
Lieberman, an independent.
The scandal includes 12 Secret Service employees and 11 military members.
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