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The U.S. Secret Service announced that it has let go three of the 11 agents suspended for alleged misconduct while in Cartagena, Colombia last week ahead of a visit there by President Obama.

One agent is expected to resign and another, a supervisor, will likely retire, The Washington Post reports. The third, another supervisor, can appeal his firing. The two supervisory agents’ careers in presidential protection date as far back as the Clinton administration.

Yesterday we learned a bit about what goes on in the brothels and clubs the 11 agents and 10 military officers allegedly visited while in Cartagena—pole-dancing, $160 whisky, Tracy Chapman playing in the background. But just why did they spend so much time partying? Isn’t laying the groundwork for the president’s attendance at an international conference—in this case the Summit of the Americas—supposed to be draining, all-day work?

The agents involved in this scandal were part of a support group that was sent in with just days to go after a larger advance team had been on the ground for two weeks prepping for Obama’s visit to Colombia, the Post reports. With so much of the work already done, they had plenty of time to roam the streets and play tourist:

So, for a day or two, the men had ample downtime — amid a handful of planning meetings and rehearsal walk-throughs — to eat at restaurants, hit the hotel gym and explore the Cartagena night life.

“That may be one reason these guys felt they were not on duty until the president arrived,” said a retired agent who has been heavily involved in Secret Service training over the years. “They just didn’t have anything to do.”

Not that that’s an excuse, according to one former Secret Service official. “I’m just shocked this happened. We were instructed never to party—even on our own time,” Bill Holland, who worked for the agency during the Nixon administration, told the Post.

Looks like some of Holland’s successors allegedly didn’t get the memo.

Additionally, The New York Times has a bit more from its interview with the sex worker who argued with two of the agents over how much she was due for her time that evening. The woman, 24, says she was owed $800, a fee she says gives her a different designation:

The price alone, she said, indicates she is an escort, not a prostitute. “You have higher rank,” she said. “An escort is someone who a man can take out to dinner. She can dress nicely, wear nice makeup, speak and act like a lady. That’s me.”