{"id":10421,"date":"2013-06-12T01:47:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10421"},"modified":"2013-06-12T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:47:29","slug":"could-this-be-hillarygate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/could-this-be-hillarygate\/","title":{"rendered":"Could This be Hillarygate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One might think that there are enough scandals afoot, both real those of Republican manufacture.  Sadly one would be wrong, because we have now been served a fresh set of scandals from the State Department, coupled with the larger scandal that State may have been covering up by squashing investigations into those scandals.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12StateDept\"The State Department is reviewing how allegations of sexual and other misconduct were handled following claims that internal investigations were quashed or whitewashed, the department said Monday.<\/p>\n

A report from the department inspector general\u2019s office listed eight alleged examples of improper interference from above to head off or water down inquiries by the department\u2019s law enforcement branch, CBS News reported Monday.<\/p>\n

The cases included allegations that security agents assigned to then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton regularly hired prostitutes while traveling on the job and that a sitting ambassador was suspected of soliciting prostitutes in a public park.<\/p>\n

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed the draft inspector general\u2019s complaint but gave no specifics about the cases. She said that all were investigated or are being investigated and that the department has brought in outside law enforcement investigators to review cases and procedures<\/strong>, she said.<\/p>\n

Psaki called the idea that the department would look the other way at criminal behavior by an ambassador \u201cpreposterous.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Last night  Rachel Maddow provided the details.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell and David Corn had this update.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Corn was spot on about one thing. You certainly can’t trust Darryl Issa (R-InsaniTEA).<\/font><\/p>\n

I certainly hope that the outside law enforcement review of this behavior comes quickly, and is reported transparently, regardless of the outcome. The right-wing media bubble is already on this like slime on a teacup. Even if proven false, the truth will never receive as much exposure as the scandals.  It could become a fatal flaw for Hillary’s 2016 Presidential candidacy, and we need to consider alternatives for the Democratic nomination, if Hillary is actually implicated.  Hillary claims to have been unaware of the investigations until the scandal broke.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One might think that there are enough scandals afoot, both real those of Republican manufacture.  Sadly one would be wrong, because we have now been served a fresh set of scandals from the State Department, coupled with the larger scandal that State may have been covering up by squashing investigations into those scandals. The State […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}