Productions
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26 March 2014
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ABC News
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Secret agents Obama sent home after heavy drinking |
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Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking. One of the agents was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway, hotel personnel stated. The hotel staff alerted the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands after finding the unconscious agent Sunday morning, a day before Obama arrived in the country. The embassy then alerted Secret Service managers on the presidential trip, which included the Secret Service Director. The US Secret Service spokesman confirmed Tuesday evening that the agency “did send three employees home for disciplinary reasons” and that they were put on administrative leave pending an investigation. ABC News wants to cover the story but needs to know in what hotel it happened and needs footage from the hotel. It turns out that the management of the possible hotels, but also the US embassy in the Netherlands, do not want to confirm anything. The journalist of the Washington Post articles finally reveals that it was the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin, where Obama stayed over as well.
Activities: research, set-up, planning, film exteriors hotel, FTP material.