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Obama dozes during UN chief’s speech

Secret Service agents sent home, suspended after drinking in the hotel during the president’s Netherlands visit

By ToI Staff 26 March 2014, 10:50 pm

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Three Secret Service agents tasked with guarding President Barack Obama during his visit in the Netherlands were sent home with heads bowed, after a wild night of drinking while on duty, the Washington Post reported.

One of the agents was found passed out in the hotel hallway. The three were put on a plane back to the US and put on leave. They violated a rule under which guards are not allowed to consume alcohol within 10 hours of being on duty.

And it seems the late-night festivities took its toll on Obama as well: The US president was caught on camera nodding off during UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s opening address at the nuclear summit in The Hague Monday.