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Story highlights N.Y. Rep. Peter King has more questions about the Secret Service prostitution scandal Dania Londono Suarez says hypothetically, someone could have harmed the agents She says she is open to posing for men's magazines in the future The argument was over $800
The woman at the center of the U.S. Secret Service prostitution scandal embraced her notoriety and spilled colorful details Friday about alcohol flowing like water and Secret Service agents dancing on a bar.
Dania Londono Suarez is the escort who unwittingly sparked investigations that have ensnared roughly two dozen members of the Secret Service and U.S. military over reported use of prostitutes in Colombia in the days before President Barack Obama visited last month. She gave a lengthy, wide-ranging interview to Colombia's W Radio on Friday.
It attracted international attention, with reporters from as far away as Europe calling in to press for more details.
She retold the story of the disagreement in the hallway of the Hotel Caribe, of her fear after the fallout and what she envisions for herself in the future.
Her days of selling her body are over, she said, but she is open to appearing nude in men's magazines.
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"My life is already ruined by this," she said.
Suarez said she considers her reputation shattered but is looking for opportunity by voluntarily stepping fully into the limelight that has been chasing her.
If a magazine offered the "right price," she would pose nude, she said.
The fallout of the scandal has "left me cured" of being an escort, she said. "That part of my life is dead."
In the interview, she also presented a more nuanced view of herself. Amid her fears that the U.S. government might retaliate and do her harm, she is also nervous about what her crush thinks about this.
She doesn't have a boyfriend, she said, but "I'm interested in someone. I don't know how he's taken all this. I wish I could go inside his head."
She also said that she would not have told police about the incident if she had known the men were agents, and that their behavior hypothetically could have put the agency's work at risk.
She didn't see any schedules or plans regarding Obama, she said, but if she had been someone wanting to do harm, "while I was with them, I could have done a thousand things." Given such an opportunity, a terrorist could have wreaked havoc, she said.
Concerns about a security breach, as well as outrage over the salacious nature of the scandal, have motivated multiple investigations by the Secret Service, the military, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general and several congressional committees.
On Friday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-New York, said he had more questions about the agency's internal review after meeting with Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan.
In particular, King noted the Secret Service said it interviewed 10 of the 12 women involved but had been unable to find the other two, including Suarez.
Citing the radio interview by Suarez that "details information vital to the investigation," King said he asked the Secret Service "for an explanation of how they have failed to find this woman when the news media seems to have no trouble doing so."
Nine of 12 Secret Service agents implicated in the scandal have resigned or are being forced out, while three others were cleared of serious misconduct. A separate military investigation of 12 U.S. military members is continuing.
Details of what happened on the night Suarez met the Secret Service agent had surfaced before Friday, and she confirmed the narrative in her interview with W Radio.
A friend at the bar introduced her to a man who was interested in her, Suarez said.
She watched as the man and his friends ordered bottles of vodka. "They were buying alcohol like it was water," she said.
She saw them dance on the bar. The man she was with liked to dance in a "disorderly" manner in which "he lifted his shirt to show off his six-pack."
They didn't speak the same language, but when the man mentioned "sex," she answered in her basic English, "Baby, cash money."
They agreed on $800, she said, and went to his hotel.
The next morning, she was awakened by a call from the front desk alerting her that it was time for overnight visitors to leave the hotel, she said.
She woke the man up, and he refused to pay, telling her "just go, bitch." It was a completely different personality than the night before, when he was very loving, she said.
"When he was drunk, he was a different person than when he had his wits about him," Suarez said.
The escort walked across the hall to the room of another man, who had brought her friend to the hotel. That couple came out and tried to sort things out with the first man, but he refused to open the door.
Now it is known that the two men were Secret Service agents, though at the time she had no idea. The only hint that the man was some sort of official was a uniform inside his room, which led Suarez to presume that he was in the military.
Sources with knowledge of the investigation have told CNN that the Secret Service agent at the center of the scandal is Arthur Huntington.
Huntington, of Severna Park, Maryland, has now left the Secret Service, but it was not clear under what circumstances.
Suarez says she does not recall what name, if any, Huntington gave her that night. But she would recognize him if their paths crossed again.
"I remember his face as if I saw him yesterday," she said.
Suarez said she spent hours trying to persuade the agent to open the door and pay her, but she finally gave up around 10 a.m.
As she was leaving, however, she came across a local police officer who encouraged her to share what was bothering her.
More agents wandered into the hallway and pleaded, "please, please, no police, no police," Suarez said.
Three agents pooled their resources and gave her $250, she said.
She took the money and left the hotel.
It was two days before Suarez learned what scandal had been ignited that day.
Today, Suarez says she would have let the man off the hook if she had known he was Secret Service. But that sentiment is not out of respect.
"They are idiots," she said. "They were protecting President Obama, and they didn't see the magnitude of the problem."
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Updated 1516 GMT (2316 HKT) May 7, 2012

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Eight agents remain under investigation over alleged misconduct as Colombian woman at centre of row speaks for first time
The Hotel Caribe in Cartagena. The woman told the New York Times she would not speak to US investigators. Photograph: Reuters
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Three secret service agents involved in the allegations of misconduct involving prostitutes ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to Colombia have left the agency.
Two were supervisors, according to the Associated Press – one who was allowed to retire, and another who was "removed for cause". He has 30 days to appeal, and CNN reported on Wednesday that he plans to sue. The third agent, who who was not a surpervisor, resigned, AP reported.
Eight agents remain under investigation, as do at least 10 US military personnel who were staying at the same hotel. They are reported to include five members of the special forces unit the green berets.
Details of the departures came as the Colombian escort at the centre of the row spoke for the first time about what happened in Cartagena. It was her row with one of the agents – who refused to pay her the price they had agreed for sex – that led to the incident becoming public.
In an interview with the New York Times , the 24-year-old single mother who works as a high priced escort, said the men who approached her were "very discreet".
"They never told me they were with Obama," she said.
She told the newspaper that she and a girlfriend had been approached by a group of men in a club. After she and her friend had been bought two bottles of vodka, she agreed to return to the hotel room of one of the men. But in the morning, he failed to pay her $800 – the amount upon which they agreed. Instead, she said, he offered her 50,000 pesos, the equivalent of $30.
When she objected, he became angry and ordered her out of the room, she said. She went across the hall to find another escort who had stayed with another American man from the same group, and together they knocked on the door, but got no response.
Eventually, a Colombian policeman stationed in the hall helped to argue her case with two other Americans from the club who emerged from their rooms. When the escort lowered her demand to $250, they gave her the money and she left.
She said she only learned the man had been a secret service agent when it made the news.
Her interview came as the secret service sent more investigators to Colombia to interview the women involved. But she told the Times that she would not speak to the investigators and planned to leave the city.
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, commented on the scandal for the first time on Wednesday, saying he would "clean house" at the agency.
"The right thing to do is to remove people who have violated the public trust and have put their playtime and their personal interests ahead of the interests of the nation," Romney said in a radio interview.
However, in comments that echoed statements of support from the White House, Romney said he retained his confidence in Mark Sullivan, the service's director.
Sullivan, who is facing questions on Capitol Hill about whether the incident could have jeopardised Obama's security, said he had referred the matter to an independent government investigator.
A spokeswomen for the office of the inspector-general said she could not confirm or deny that an investigation was underway.
Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, which also has jurisdiction over the secret service, said he was "deeply concerned" by reports of what happened in Colombia and had organised a briefing for his committee. His office could not say whether an investigation was forthcoming.
In a statement, Leahy said: "I believe that Director Sullivan is taking serious action to investigate the incident, and will be staying in close contact with him in the days and weeks ahead. "
Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the top-ranking Republican on the homeland security committee, said on Tuesday that "20 or 21 women foreign nationals" were brought to the hotel. Eleven of the Americans involved were secret service agents, she said, and "allegedly marines were involved with the rest."
On Monday, the secret service announced it was revoking the security clearance of the 11 agents under investigation.
One of the officials told AP the group also includes two US navy technicians, two marine dog handlers and a member of the US air force. The green berets were working with Colombia's counterterrorist teams, the official said.
The agents and servicemen were in Colombia setting up security ahead of Obama's three-day trip to the port city of Cartagena for a summit attended by about 30 other world leaders.

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May 4, 2012 -- One of the Colombian escorts at the center of the Secret Service scandal emerged from hiding today, recounting in detail her night in Cartagena with a member of President Obama's protective detail and saying she fears for her safety.
Dania Suarez, a 24-year old dark-haired beauty, appeared on a call-in show carried by Colombia's W Radio and Carocol Television Friday morning, telling callers the agent was "heavily intoxicated" and everything in his luggage and his papers was left open in his room and could have been easily stolen.
Asked if she had been a spy could she have removed the papers, Suarez said, "Absolutely, absolutely."
"Clearly, in those moments, if I had wanted to, obviously, I could have done so," she said.
Suarez says she met the agent at a disco where they danced and she began to rub her hands over his body.
"He had a weird way of dancing in the disco," she said of the agent, identified in published accounts elsewhere as Arthur Huntington, who has left the Secret Service under circumstances that are unclear.
She said that Huntington did not appear to be searching for a prostitute but that "I found him on my own."
Suarez said that when she left with Huntington, other Americans were still at the disco. "They were drinking excessive alcohol. They were on the bar dancing, and I thought they were crazy."
"They were all drunk," she said. "They bought alcohol like they bought water."
Suarez said Huntington fell asleep when they returned to his room at 1 a.m.
She said he was unwilling to pay her the agreed-upon amount when she left. She refused to confirm or deny that she had sex with him. Asked if he didn't pay "because he did not receive the services he paid for because he fell asleep," she said, "If I answer the question you will know if I did or did not do anything with him."
She said she does not consider herself a prostitute, but an escort because prostitutes "are lower class and live in brothels."
She confirmed other accounts that the agent offered her $30, which led to a confrontation at the agent's door that drew the attention of the hotel manager and local police.
She said the U.S. agents pleaded, "Please, please no police, no police."
"Between all of them, they collected the money ... and that's what happened in the hall," she said. "They were part of Obama's security group and I told them I was going to call the police so they can pay me the money."
Suarez said she left Colombia for a few days because of concerns her life could be in danger and has had no contact with any American official.
"As far as the investigators go, just like the Secret Service agents are dumb, imagine the investigators," she said.
Throughout her appearance this morning, dressed in a skimpy green blouse, Suarez laughed and smiled even as the host reminded her of the seriousness of the scandal.
"This is who I am and all I really care about is my mother and my young son," Suarez said.
She also said that she was with a friend when she first met Huntington in the disco, and that another agent who was with Huntington "fell in love" with her friend, though they did not have sex. "Their love story ended in the bar," she said.
According to Suarez, her friend would like to get back in touch with the other agent.
"My friend would say to me, 'I love that guy, how do I get in contact with him?'"
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Published: 21:48 BST, 19 April 2012 | Updated: 20:54 BST, 20 April 2012
This is the woman who threw the Secret Service into crisis when she fought with an agent who slept with her at a Colombian hotel but then refused to hand over the $800 they had agreed upon.
According to the New York Daily News , she is a single mother known only as 'Dania'.
Her identity was revealed as the names of two of the Secret Service supervisors involved in the scandal came to light last night.
David Chaney was forced to retire over his alleged role in the incident, while Greg Stokes was 'removed with cause'.
Flaunt: In these Facebook images Dania Suarez, one of the Colombian prostitutes at the centre of the Secret Service sex scandal, flirts with the camer
Flirtatious: Bikini-clad working girl Dania Suarez is at the centre of the Secret Service prostitution scandal
Proposal: Dania Suarez said she and one of the agents agreed he would pay her $800 for sex at the hotel
Another agent resigned after being suspended as part of the investigation into the scandal.
One of the three agents to have left the service so far apparently plans to sue the agency over his treatment in the aftermath of the prostitution scandal, which has made headlines around the world.
The two supervisors who have left the service in the wake of the revelations were named as Stokes and Chaney by CBS News on Thursday evening.
Stokes, who could appeal his sacking in the next 30 days, is apparently head of the agency's Canine Training Section.
Scandal: David Randall Chaney, right, was forced to retire over his alleged role in the incident. The 48-year-old claimed he was 'really checking out' Sarah Palin, left, when he guarded her during the 2008 election campaign
Working girl: The single mother said she met the agent at a discotheque, and agreed to a price of $800
Embarrassment: U.S. President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House, behind a Secret Service agent, in Washington DC, on Wednesday
Seedy: The PleyClub, in Cartagena, Colombia, where Obama's Secret Service agents allegedly picked up prostitutes
The men were identified soon after as 'Dania,' the mother of a 9-year-old son, broke her silence.
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