Video: Secret Service scandal prostitute speaks out

>>> tonight, the woman caught up at the center of the secret service scandal is speaking out for the first time, giving her version of events about what happened that night in colombia. we get our record tonight from nbc's mark potter .

>> for the first time since the prostitution scandal erupted at this hotel in cartagena, colombia three weeks ago, a woman identifying herself as dania suarez is speaking publicly. during a paid interview, she said she was the escort at the center of the scandal whose confrontation with a man she later learned was an agent over his refusal to pay her fee, drew the authorities and sparked the investigation. speaking in spanish, she said it was obvious. i can't believe he would be so dumb or so stupid to think i wasn't going to charge him money. she was also asked whether she could have posed a risk to the president's security. her answer, if i had wanted to or i had been part of one of those terrorist groups, it's obvious i would have been able to get everything. in the interview, she said the agent and two other with him were drinking heavily that night. and she said after the scandal blew up, she fled to dubai. fearing for her safety and that of her son. during all that time, sheed said, she's never been contacted by u.s. officials investigating the scandal. a point of concern to a leading congressman briefed on the investigation.

>> this woman is actually essential to the investigation, since she's the one who created the initial conflict that brought the whole house down. she was the one involved at the very center of this whole case, and the secret service has not been able to interview her.

>> the u.s. secret service will not comment on the suarez interview. in the wake of the scandal, nine personnel there are leaving the agency. representative king said one agent failed a polygraph test. the pentagon said the investigation of 12 u.s. military personnel is completed now, awaiting final review. mark potter , nbc news, miami.

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