USSS SEXUAL MISCONDUCT?: WHOPPER OF A WHITEWASH!

DHS Inspector General’s survey of Secret Service personnel concludes that its agents do not engage in sexual misconduct

Some 21 months after more than a dozen Secret Service officials had a ball with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, an investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security concluded that the agency does not have a widespread problem with its agents engaging in sexual misconduct while on official business. That flies in the face of whistleblowers informing Congress that agents and supervisors of the US Secret Service have engaged in misconduct in 17 countries in recent years.

Upon release of the IG’s report exonerating the agency of sexual misconduct, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan trumpeted: “This report confirms what we’ve been saying for two years — that there is not widespread misconduct and there is not an environment that fosters misconduct in the agency.”

How did the Inspector General’s investigators reach that conclusion? They conducted an anonymous electronic survey of Secret Service agents. 2,575 of the agency’s 6,500 personnel completed the questionnaire and 83 percent of the respondents said they were not personally aware of sexual misconduct like what occurred in Cartagena.

Talk about a whitewash … this one’s a whopper. Did the investigators really expect Secret Service agents to admit that sexual misconduct within their ranks is quite common? Taking that survey of Secret Service agents is the same as taking a survey of prison inmates and asking them if they were guilty or innocent … such a survey would conclude that our prisons are full of innocent inmates.

I've said this before: “Boys, in this case Secret Service agents, will be boys.”