It's just not about G-Men being Boys...and if the self-righteous GOP Congressional majority cares at all about National Security, they'll forget about Ben-eMail-Ghazi-Gate and live up to the goals of a minimal state by investigating and restructuring the bloated bureaucracy that is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal rogue elements such as the DEA by consolidating it with agencies less free to waste taxpayers dollars. Apparently, to the Republic party, that
bathtub-drownable "small government" only means small-minded government in a tub filled with gin. If nothing else both DHS's Secret Service and the DEA need to have better
interagency communication on the bidding of subcontracting work to Colombian sex workers. Maybe it's something the DHS's counter narcotics division could do for the DEA?
Senior Drug Enforcement Administration agents working overseas allegedly participated in “sex parties” with prostitutes funded by drug cartels, according to a newly-released Department of Justice Inspector General report on the handling of sexual misconduct allegations by law enforcement agencies.
The conduct occurred over a period of years, according to the report. In addition to soliciting prostitutes, the foreign officers interviewed for the report allege three DEA supervisory special agents were “provided money, expensive gifts, and weapons from drug cartel members."...
According to Politico, the alleged "sex parties" took place in Colombia between 2005 and 2008. The report didn't appear to name the agents involved, but seven of them admitted to attending the parties and were punished with short suspensions.
The sex parties occurred in government leased living quarters where “agents’ laptops, BlackBerry devices and other government-issued equipment were present,” posing a security risk and “potentially exposing them to extortion, blackmail, or coercion.”
In another instance, two DEA special agents allegedly solicited prostitutes for a farewell party for a senior DEA official.
That official, an acting assistant regional director, allegedly had “sexual relations with prostitutes” and there were “allegations operational funds were used to pay for the party and the prostitutes,” according to the report.
The report also alleges that one prostitute was assaulted by someone associated with DEA supervisors following a payment dispute. The report was critical of DEA’s treatment of allegations of sexual misconduct, often dealing with incidents as local management issues and not reporting information up the chain of command.
The report also looked at allegations of misconduct against the U.S. Marshals Service, ATF and the FBI.
One case of alleged sexual harassment involved an FBI “Supervisory Management and Program Analyst’s repeated unprofessional behavior, including cornering his subordinates in their cubicles and displaying the size of his genitals by tightening his pants,” the report details. Subordinates of that employee endured his conduct for 3 years before it was reported to headquarters. The analyst was eventually suspended, demoted and reassigned to another office.
The Department of Justice said in a statement that it is working “with the law enforcement components to ensure a zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment and misconduct is enforced and that incidents are properly reported."
* A deputy U.S. Marshal “entered into a romantic relationship” with a fugitive’s spouse and would not break off the relationship for more than a year, even after being told by supervisors to end it;
* An ATF “Director of Industry Operations” had “solicited consensual sex with anonymous partners and modified a hotel room door to facilitate sexual play.” The ATF employee even disabled a hotel’s fire detection system, and when caught by the hotel, said he had done it before;
* “For over 3 years, an ATF Program Manager failed to report allegations that two training instructors were having consensual sex with their students. According to the incident report, the Program Manager learned the same instructors had engaged in substantially the same activities 3 years earlier but had merely counseled the training instructors without reporting the alleged activities” to the Internal Affairs Division.