The Inspector General of the State Department has uncovered crimes and inappropriate behavior in the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). The DSS is meant to investigate crimes, as well as protecting the Secretary of the State and U.S. ambassadors. Instead, it appears to have covered them up.
The leaked memo cites 8 specific crimes, but there are allegations of far more. Among the eight are an “underground drug ring” supplying State Department embassy security contractors in Baghdad; a security official in Beirut who sexually assaulted foreign national embassy guards; and “endemic” use of “prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries” by security personnel for Secretary of State Clinton, according to a href= http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57588456/state-department-memo-reveals-possible-cover-ups-halted-investigations>CBSNews.com.
In another example, agents investigated a U.S. Ambassador in 2011 who “routinely ditched ... his protective security detail,” possibly in order to “solicit sexual favors from prostitutes.” The agents were ordered to cease, says a href= http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/state-department-prostitutes-drug/2013/06/10/id/508999>NewsMax.com.
For the most part, the State Department has denied wrongdoing. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said “All cases mentioned in the CBS report were thoroughly investigated or under investigation, and the—the department continues to take action…not all allegations were substantiated.” And the office of the Inspector General released the following statement:
“OIG does not comment on drafts of reports.
On its own initiative, OIG Office of Investigations has been conducting its own independent review of the allegations made. This is our standard procedure.
We staffed it independently and appropriately and they were people hired specific for this review at the end of 2012. They are on staff. We staffed it with the best people we can find at hand to do the job.
DS does not speak for us.”