STATE DEPARTMENT COVERS UP BAD HONDURAS SHOOTINGS

Despite vehement denials of any responsibility by the DEA, the presence of DEA agents on the State Department helicopter clearly indicates they were in charge

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LEAKED MEMO: STATE DEPARTMENT BLOCKED PROBE INTO HONDURAS SHOOTINGS
By Sandy Fitzgerald

Newsmax
June 12, 2013

The State Department blocked law enforcement from investigating the shootings of four people in a fishing boat in Honduras last May during what police claimed was a drug control incident, a memo leaked to The New York Post claims.

Two pregnant women and two men were killed after Honduran national police opened fire on their small boat, with the police saying drugs were involved. However, local residents said the boat was full of people fishing, and their deaths sparked riots in the Central American country's streets.

The shots were fired from a State Department-owned helicopter, and two Drug Enforcement Administration agents were involved, an agency spokeswoman admitted. However, the DEA insists its agents did not fire the shots that killed the people on the boat.

The leaked internal 2012 memo says the DEA agents were under the authority of the State Department's chief of mission in Honduras and funded by a counter-narcotics program, and were "subject to investigation" by State.

But when the investigation began, "despite requests by the U.S. ambassador to Honduras and congressional pressure, DEA reportedly [was] not cooperating," the memo continues.

A State Department agent interviewed William Brownfield, the assistant secretary for international narcotics and law-enforcement affairs, “who reportedly was not forthcoming and gave the impression” that State “should not pursue the investigation," say claims in the leaked internal document.

The DEA claimed it never fired any of the rounds in the incident, and that the people in the boat fired first, so the Honduran police were acting in self-defense.

But residents in Honduras protested the shootings, burning down government buildings and demanding American drug agents leave the area, reports The New York Times.

American and Honduran security officials claim that two traffickers were killed during the operation, which yielded 1,000 pounds of cocaine.

The Honduran incident has for months prompted demands from human rights groups and lawmakers wanting to know exactly what the involvement of the DEA agents was, The Washington Times reported earlier this year.

While an investigation last year cleared the DEA of any wrongdoing, 58 House delegates in January sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder, calling the probe "deeply flawed."

The latest cover-up allegations against the State Department add to the furor caused this week when Aurelia Fedenisn, a former State Department inspector general, accused higher-ups of hiding the findings from an investigative report that says members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail and a U.S. ambassador solicited prostitutes. State denies all the claims.

The diplomat has since been revealed as Ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman. He told The New York Daily News on Tuesday he is "angered and saddened by the baseless allegations."

Investigation into the cases has been opened by both the GOP-run House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Democrat-run Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina saying "the sanitizing of these reports explains Benghazi."