IG: State Department quashed investigations into criminal wrongdoing

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State Department quashed investigations into criminal wrongdoing

Following up on the allegations in a story CBS News published last summer titled "State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations," the State Department inspector general on Friday suggested that based on internal documents and interviews, the State Department quashed investigations into criminal wrongdoing.

The IG found that senior State Department officials contributed to the "appearance of undue influence and favoritism."

State Department quashed investigations into criminal wrongdoing - CBS News

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.

First report by CBS last summer:

State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups halted investigations - CBS News


Sex assaults and prostitutes being covered up while Hilary was in charge. Nice.