he says most of the secret service " advance - team " members also paid extra for access to the vip section of the club where they were provided a number of sexual favors in return for their cash .
seattle - based investigative reporter chris halsne ( kirotv- cbs- cox media group ) just returned from el salvador , where he interviewed a u.s. government subcontractor who worked extensively with the secret service advance team ( snipers , k-9 and explosives sweeps ) in san salvador prior to president obama ’s trip there in march of 2011 .
these alleged incidents in el salvador occurred a full year prior to recent revelations that secret service agents used prostitutes in cartagena , colombia , on a presidential trip this month .
regardless of whether the incidents were some of the strippers from the same club .
the secret service said thursday it was investigating the report .
said he believed that there were instances of misconduct by secret service agents prior to the colombian prostitution scandal that has led to a number of resignations and firings and shaken confidence in the agency tasked with protecting the president .
 
 
the eyewitness says he joined about a dozen secret service agents and a few u.s. military specialists at a strip club in san salvador a few days before president obama and his family arrived in el salvador to meet with its new president , mauricio funes .