Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Was the State Department involved in Cover-ups from Prostitution to Drugs Rings?

H/T Joel2013
CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks. 
The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department's security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of misconduct on the part of the 70,000 State Department employees worldwide. 
CBS News' John Miller reports that according to an internal State Department Inspector General's memo, several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off. The memo obtained by CBS News cited eight specific examples. Among them: allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut "engaged in sexual assaults" on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries" -- a problem the report says was "endemic."
The memo also reveals details about an "underground drug ring" was operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and supplied State Department security contractors with drugs. 
Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator with the State Department's internal watchdog agency, the Inspector General, told Miller, "We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases." 
In such cases, DSS agents told the Inspector General's investigators that senior State Department officials told them to back off, a charge that Fedenisn says is "very" upsetting.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bosman, have we ever seen so many cover-ups breaking all at once? It really makes me wonder just how much MORE is out there . . .

-Martha

BOSMAN said...

"What difference does it make"?

Anonymous said...

Sadly, she gets away with these things time and time again. How she skated out of Benghazi so darn easily is a testament to just how brain-dead we really are. So, this new scandal amount to exactly nothing.

I'm scared for our country. Truly.

-Martha