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(CBS News) 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."
According to Fedenisn, when a high-ranking State Department security officials was shown a draft of their findings that investigations were being interfered with by State Department higher-ups, he said, "This is going to kill us." In the final report however, all references to specific cases had been removed.
"Possible cover-ups"??? :lamo
CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks.
"Possible cover-ups"??? :lamo
(please stop, you're killing me here)
State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations - CBS News
This is amazing stuff. IG investigators being told to back off!
Please allow me to clarify, j-mac__You apparently have misunderstood where my sarcasm is coming from_You're laughing off the corruption of the IG system because you now want absolute evidence at first report? Well, that's the tactic isn't it Empirica? If an absolute statement were made you'd demand, and dismiss, but since a water carrier caveats it with "possible" you just dismiss....Typical.
Apparently yes in the Main Stream Media_"May" show a cover up? seriously? Is this what really passes for journalism?
According to a “CBS This Morning” report out Monday, an internal State Department Inspector General’s memo showed that “several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off.” The memo pointed to eight specific examples, which included alleged sexual assaults and engaging with prostitutes by employees ranking from security officers to a U.S. ambassador.
The cases highlighted by “CBS This Morning,” pointed to allegations that a State Department security official sexually assaulted foreign nationals hired as embassy guards in Beruit and allegations that members of former Security of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail solicited prostitutes while abroad on official trips.
There were also details about an “underground drug ring,” which was operating near the embassy in Baghdad and was allegedly supplying State Department security contractors with illegal substances.
The problem was described as “endemic” in the memo.
“We were very upset. We expect to see influence, but the degree to which that influence existed, and how high up it went, was very disturbing,” Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator for the office of the Inspector General, the State Department’s internal watchdog agency and a whistleblower on the issue told CBS News’ John Miller. “My heart really went out to the agents in that office because they really want to do the right thing, they want to investigate the cases fully, correctly, accurately. And they can’t.”
Please allow me to clarify, j-mac__You apparently have misunderstood where my sarcasm is coming from_
I am definitely not "laughing off the corruption of the IG system"_
I'm laughing at how such obvious IG corruption is being referred to as "possible corruption" by the MSM_
Unless I'm mistaken, I think we're in agreement here~eace
State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations - CBS News
This is amazing stuff. IG investigators being told to back off!
"May" show a cover up? seriously? Is this what really passes for journalism?
Stuff we have known since October, gotta love the media...
Stuff we have known since October, gotta love the media...
Not sure what you want, it's CBS. Guess they're no longer good either. When people are trying to cover something up, I guess it's hard to get info on it, cause they're trying to hide it.
Even though you are correct, without Fox the center and right wings would be at a political disadvantage considering the far-left progressive bias which dominates the rest of news/media/hollywood_Then you say you haven't found anything yet. Saying "may be a cover-up" is insinuating wrong-doing without any proof.
This type of Mickey-Mouse reporting from ALL medias (yes, that includes Fox) is disgusting IMO.
]Uncovered documents show the U.S. State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal behavior ranging from sexual assaults to an underground drug ring.
CBS News reports that is has unearthed documents from the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), an internal watchdog agency, that implicate the State Department in a series of misconducts worldwide.
The memo, reported by CBS News’ John Miller, cited eight specific examples, including allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut “engaged in sexual assaults” with 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.”
Former State Department internal investigator Aurelia Fedenisn told CBS News, “We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases.”
Often times, other DSS agents were simply told to back off of investigations of high-ranking State Department members. Fedenisn told CBS that “hostile intelligence services” allow criminal behavior to continue....
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