Tipsheet State Department Officials Interfered With IG Investigations of Sexual Misconduct Katie Pavlich | June 10, 2013 10:57 AM Advertisement Add another scandal to the list. State Department officials in Washington interfering with Inspector General investigations to avoid bad press, accountability and scandal? You don't say: Advertisement 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. And yes, things that happened were in fact illegal. 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." Recommended Yes, Jen Psaki Really Said This About Biden Cutting Off Weapons Supply to Israel Sarah Arnold Advertisement Keep in mind that State Department officials (and the Obama administration in general) are constantly citing "ongoing criminal investigations within a department" as a reason why they can't comment or take responsibility for a situation. It turns out, at least in the State Department, the so-called "internal investigation" was being sidelined by people within the Department. Prostitutes? Check. Cover-up? Check. Everyone still has a job? Check. A Kennedy covering up sex? Check. The State Department Inspector General's memo refers to the 2011 investigation into an ambassador who "routinely ditched ... his protective security detai" and inspectors suspect this was in order to "solicit sexual favors from prostitutes."Sources told CBS News that after the allegations surfaced, the ambassador was called to Washington, D.C. to meet with Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy, but was permitted to return to his post. Tags: STATE DEPARTMENT Join the conversation as a VIP Member Login to Leave a Comment Recommended Yes, Jen Psaki Really Said This About Biden Cutting Off Weapons Supply to Israel Sarah Arnold Oh, So That's Why DOJ Isn't Going After Pro-Terrorism Agitators Katie Pavlich Biden's New Low Guy Benson Biden Administration Hurls Israel Under the Bus Again Matt Vespa Try a Little Honesty About Israel Victor Davis Hanson Jonah Goldberg's Tweet About What's Going on in Never Trump Land Is Interesting Matt Vespa Trending on Townhall Videos Advertisement Trending on Townhall Media 1 'MERICA: Man Gives Local Government Creative Finger Over Boat Fence Mandate 2 Yes, Jen Psaki Really Said This About Biden Cutting Off Weapons Supply to Israel 3 After Bending the Knee to Hamas, Biden Learns the Hard Way That You Can Never Be Woke Enough Advertisement Most Popular Oh, So That's Why DOJ Isn't Going After Pro-Terrorism Agitators Biden's New Low Biden Administration Hurls Israel Under the Bus Again Try a Little Honesty About Israel Yes, Jen Psaki Really Said This About Biden Cutting Off Weapons Supply to Israel Sarah Arnold Advertisement
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