Jon Stewart on the Secret Service's Woman Problem

Dino Grandoni

April 25, 2012 at 8:49 AM

The Secret Service scandal has drawn scrutiny to the agency in areas not even associated with this embarrassing episode of short-changing prostitutes in Colombia. As Jon Stewart noticed on The Daily Show, there's the Facebook posting of agent David Cheney checking out then-VP candidate Sarah Palin, but even more telling, as several female members of Congress point out, is that women only constitute 11 percent of the agency. Would the Secret Service keep its pants on if it had more of a female presence? Samantha Bee and Jessica Williams find out.

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