[btu2012]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]More than 100 ministers and vice-ministers were communist State Security Service agents in Bulgaria
President Parvanov was mentioned among collaborators. There is information that about 130 ministers and deputy ministers were agents of the former communist State Security Service (SSS) during the transition period, Focus News Agency reports, referring to member of the Commission on State Security Files Valeri Katsunov.
He explained to the agency that check of members of the Council of Ministers for the period from 1990 up to now includes about 673 persons. In his words the number of the SSS agents according to that check is the biggest for the instant.

The result is expected to be officially announced in two days, Focus News Agency adds. The ruling three-way coalition between the Socialists, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) and National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP) had the smallest number of former state security collaborators, online paper mediapool.bg claimed. The commission has previously unveiled the names of 240 current and former members of the Bulgarian Parliament and 24 people in the presidential administration, including President Georgi Parvanov himself, as former collaborators or employees of the State Security. Its next target will be checking the backgrounds of journalists, according to Focus news agency.

Bulgaria's communist-era security service is believed to have remained potent after the fall of communism with the ex-operatives closely linked to the political and business establishment. AIA reported that a special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, had been set up in April, as part of Bulgaria's long overdue efforts to finally face up to its totalitarian past and disclose who did what for the secret police under communism.

[Ache]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04 ... n-scandal/
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o far, 11 members have been placed on administrative leave after they were recalled from their Colombia assignment. Five members of the U.S. military also "may have been involved in inappropriate conduct" in the same hotel, military officials said Saturday. A military statement did not get into specifics, but said they violated curfew. ...
The agent balked, which eventually resulted in a confrontation and forced diplomatic intervention. The official said the guest involved apparently was a prostitute.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04 ... z1s8vlRZ3S

[ColossalContrarian]

As long as they're not selling guns to drug dealers like the ATF...

[Cloud9]

Is't this O's Praetorian Guard?

[EnergyUnlimited]

Next nonsense.
There is nothing wrong with frequenting prostitutes.
Private affair.

However there *might* be something wrong if secret service agent frequenting a prostitute is not capable to keep it secret.

[TheAntiDoomer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'I')s't this O's Praetorian Guard?

[Cloud9]

That's what J.F.K. thought. Read the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheAntiDoomer', ' ')There is no political blowback for O on this one.

[Ache]

[eXpat]

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