host: joining us now is ken dilanian of the "los angeles times."serves as their national security correspondent. thank you. so we have two names out there connected with what happened in clufment what's the message behind the release of the names as far as the future of what happens? guest: the message is the secret service is trying to be transparent about this. ordinarily, you don't hear the names of agent who is are disciplined in a garden variety in a misconduct case but this has gone so high profile. normally, they would be concerned about the privacy of these individuals but the names are out and one of the guys according to reports this morning, you know, had a facebook page where he was talking about standing behind sarah palin on details between 2008 campaign and she's already commented on that. so things are moving quickly. host: so what happens to those in question now? what does the secret service do with them? guest: well in the case of these three people, two of them are going to retire. these are two supervisorers and an agent and a

you are wrong with ken dilanian. go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: i guess i'm sitting here as a retired person, but i can remember my younger days. after all, they are young men and the of the natural desires and wants and needs or whatever, and it's if the married that should be between their wives and themselves and it's not anything to do with the public scrutiny on what they've done or what they did down there. they were down there having a good time, but they still were down there to have a good time. so, i guess that is my comment. thanks for c-span. >> guest: i've heard that perspective. the counter argument to that of course is that this was before the presidential visit. these guys were down here, the staff in advance and insurance care if the presidential visit it's one thing that yields the party when the president is, as many agents said to me. they will have a few years but to have gone this far before the president got there when they were supposed to be working, down on the taxpayers'

. >> host: ken dilanian joining us. this is in the pendants, oregon, hello. >> caller: hello. i am a retired postal worker, and they have a clause in the contract i signed when i joined the post office that says i don't even have to do anything wrong, all i have to do is have the appearance of doing something wrong. i was wondering if it was the same on their contracts? thank you very much. >> guest: i just don't know about that. i'm not familiar with ricotta conduct their but i would imagine, they don't have a union but there is some kind of due process that agents would get before being fired. i would imagine, you know, it would seem common sense they would have to be more substantive than the appearance of wrongdoing. >> host: almost like a moral clause. >> guest: right. there may be a moral cause. i've heard called code of conduct, but i haven't actually read it. >> host: here's paducah, kentucky, joe, democrat line. >> caller: i was agreeing with it earlier caller that is an abuse of power. if you were to work and use your position to have a sexual relationship with anybo

host: ken dilanian is with the "los angeles times" and serves as a national security reporter.we take a look at mitt romney addressing the troop -- the group at 4:00. we will hear from senator john mccain before he speaks. live coverage starting at 3:45 p.m. here on c-span. >> this weekend, live coverage from the los angeles times festival of books. coverage starts at 2:00 p.m. eastern saturday and sunday. saturday at 3:30, biographer says. call in for steven ross. sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern watch for the take on liberals and the cause. at 5:00, a panel on surveillance in sequence with lori andrews and lamichael schirmer. -- michael shermer. >> the u.s. house gaveled out for the week yesterday and will reconvene tuesday for legislative business. next week, a bill to improve information sharing between the government and business when it comes to cyber security -- a motion to go to work with the senate. the senate is back on monday at noon for more work on the violence against women act and overhauling the postal service. you can see the senate live on c-span2. >> this is such

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