Secret Service

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Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said he is troubled by the lack of cooperation from the Obama administration and the inspector general's office in regards to the Secret Service prostitution probe. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and Charles K. Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, testify on Capitol Hill last year. The investigation was spurred by whistleblower accusations that Mr. Edwards was "susceptible to political pressure" in issuing a favorable investigative report on the Secret Service, according to a June 27 letter to him from the panel, and that his investigators "changed and withheld" information that would have been damaging to the service. (Associated Press)

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The Secret Service eventually added entry points to the Mall for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington to deal with the long lines at the checkpoints, but by then many had missed some of the festivities. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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People had to wait in long security lines to enter the Lincoln Memorial grounds for Wednesday's 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, waits that spurred an angry Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton to send a letter about the "massive failure" to the head of the Secret Service about "a breakdown that was entirely unnecessary." (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Number 5 — Secret Service Director. If the public knows your name, something probably went wrong on your watch. Yes, Mark Sullivan, that includes agents cavorting with prostitutes while on assignment in Colombia.

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President George H. W. Bush and members of his Secret Service detail shaved their heads to show support for the two-year-old son of a detail member who is being treated for leukemia. (Office of George Bush)

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This undated handout photo shows Secret Service agent Julia Pierson. President Obama appoint the veteran agent as the agency's first female director, signaling his desire to change the culture at the male-dominated service, which has been marred by scandal. (Associated Press/U.S. Secret Service)

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**FILE** President Obama (left) walks past a Secret Service agent after welcoming the NCAA college football BCS National Champion University of Alabama Crimson Tide to the South Lawn of the White House to honor their 14th championship on April 19, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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** File ** Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 3, 2009. (Associated Press)

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GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, citing terrorism, sponsored legislation to give former U.S. presidents and their wives lifetime Secret Service protection. (Associated Press)

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While a Secret Service agent holds onto his waist, former President Bill Clinton stretches over a porch rail and shakes hands with well-wishers during a campaign stop on Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Morganton, N.C. The former president was campaigning for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democratic presidential hopeful. (AP Photo/The News Herald, Jennifer Frew)

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President Barack Obama is surrounded by Secret Service agents as he greets women who were on the riser behind him, after he spoke about choice facing women in the election during a campaign event at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va., Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)