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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Well, now, that’s pretty incriminating. Time to circle the wagons.
As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military
were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia,
Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White
House was involved.
But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that
senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that
a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential
advance-team member — yet that information was never thoroughly
investigated or publicly acknowledged.
The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House
included hotel records and firsthand accounts — the same types of evidence
the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was
involved.
The Secret Service shared its findings twice in the weeks after the
scandal with top White House officials, including then-White House Counsel
Kathryn Ruemmler. Each time, she and other presidential aides conducted an
interview with the advance-team member and concluded that he had done
nothing wrong.
Meanwhile, the new details also show that a separate set of
investigators in the inspector general’s office of the Department of
Homeland Security — tasked by a Senate committee with digging more deeply
into misconduct on the trip — found additional evidence from records and
eyewitnesses who had accompanied the team member in Colombia.
The lead investigator later told Senate staffers that he felt pressure
from his superiors in the office of Charles K. Edwards, who was then the
acting inspector general, to withhold evidence — and that, in the heat of
an election year, decisions were being made with political considerations in
mind.
“We were directed at the time . . . to delay the report of
the investigation until after the 2012 election,” David Nieland, the lead
investigator on the Colombia case for the DHS inspector general’s office,
told Senate staffers, according to three people with knowledge of his
statement.
Nieland added that his superiors told him “to withhold and alter
certain information in the report of investigation because it was
potentially embarrassing to the administration.”
Eh, what difference does it make? But if they’re willing to lie and cover
this up, what else are they covering up? | a*********a
发帖数: 3656 | 2 no body heard the report that 1 month before the mid-term election, the
unemployment
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Labor announcement?
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: Well, now, that’s pretty incriminating. Time to circle the wagons.
: As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military
: were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia,
: Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White
: House was involved.
: But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that
: senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that
: a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential
: advance-team member — yet that information was never thoroughly
: investigated or publicly acknowledged.
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