Secret Service Head to Announce Retirement

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After a 30-year career with the Secret Service, Director Mark Sullivan is expected to announce his retirement soon, reports NBC News.

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Sullivan has served as director since 2006 during the Bush administration. The agency found itself in the middle of a controversy after a prostitution scandal during President Obama’s trip to Colombia in April 2012.

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson accused Sullivan of misleading Congress during a testimony in May of last year about the scandal, something other senators called “unfair.”

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