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A Secret Service agent points out perimeters Oct. 17, 2012, to other agents at Ida Lee Park in Leesburg, Va., where GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was to hold a rally later that evening. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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A Secret Service agent stands guard at right as Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks during a rally at Automated Conveyor Systems in Lynchburg, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Secret Service agents stand guard as Republican presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney walks to his car after services at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, seen here in December 2009, has spent half his life at the agency and could have retired nearly 10 years ago. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this April 25, 2012, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal that embarrassed the White House and overshadowed the president's visit to a Latin American summit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal that has embarrassed the White House and overshadowed the president's visit to a Latin American summit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2008 file photo, a Secret Service agent stands near then presidential candidate Barack Obama, background, at a rally in Norfolk, Va. Moving swiftly, the Secret Service forced out three agents Wednesday, April 18, 2012 in a prostitution scandal that has embarrassed President Obama. A senior congressman welcomed the move to hold people responsible for the tawdry episode but warned "it's not over." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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It has been harder for President Obama to get his message across to a public whose attention has been diverted by recent scandals involving the behavior of some Secret Service agents and members of the military in Colombia as well as stories of federal bureacrats carousing in Las Vegas at public expense. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Secret Service agent stands Oct. 28, 2008, near then-presidential candidate Barack Obama at a rally in Norfolk, Va. (Associated Press)

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Secret Service agents scout the scene prior to the arrival of President Barack Obama, who was scheduled to offer marks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)