New York Republican Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, acted after Dania Londono Suarez [Dania Londoño Suárez] appeared on television to reveal her side of the story.
She said that it would have been easy for her to steal any of the documents or plans that President Barack Obama's bodyguards had with them in a hotel room on a presidential trip to Cartagena, Columbia, last month.
Miss Suarez said: "They were a bunch of fools. They are responsible for Obama's security and they still let this happen.
"I could have done a thousand other things. If I had wanted to, I could have gone through all his documents, his wallet, his suitcase."
Miss Suarez told Caracol News in Cartegena that she called the police after the Secret Service agent with whom she spent the night refused to pay her the $800 (£500) he had promised.
"Let's go, bitch – I'm not going to pay you," she said that he told her before throwing her out of the room in the early morning. » | William Lowther in Washington | Saturday, May 05, 2012
