Secret Service Director Suspected Of Lying To Congress

United States Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is suspected of lying to Congress during their investigation into the Secret Service’s conduct in the days leading up to the President visiting Cartagena, Columbia this past April.

As previously reported by The Inquistr, on May 23 Director Mark Sullivan testified at a public hearing regarding allegations that the Secret Service threatened national security by hiring prostitutes and bringing them back to their hotel rooms in the days prior to the President’s visit to Columbia.

The statement at the heart of the investigation into Director Mark Sullivan’s false testimony to Congress occurred when Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) specifically asked Sullivan if he could definitively state that the women involved were not involved in any criminal activity such as espionage, trafficking, drugs or terrorism. To which Sullivan replied that the agency thoroughly investigated “if there was any connection [between the women] with any type of criminal activity or criminal organization as well as any type of intelligence concerns that we may have. All of the information that we have received back has concluded that there was no connection either from a counterintelligence perspective or a criminal perspective.” [Emphasis mine.]

However, several high-ranking unnamed sources have revealed exclusively to Fox News that those statements were in fact false and that Director Sullivan knew at the time of giving his testimony that his agency had discovered “direct evidence” that at least one of the women in question had her name on a CIA database of known criminals for being linked to a drug cartel.

The investigation into Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan’s congressional testimony was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG). Fox News claims their sources had access to the DHS OIG’s findings and that in addition to claims Sullivan may have lied during testimony it also alleges that Sullivan may have manipulated data in a report requested by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The DHS OIG has completed their investigation and submitted their findings to the Department of Justice. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan denies the allegations and has preemptively retained legal counsel should the Justice Department’s prosecutors choose to pursue charges against him for lying to Congress in his May testimony.