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How about that, the State Department CAN do the right thing

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This morning, Matthew Boyle filed a story about a State Department contract specialist who helped her husband’s company get more than $52 million in taxpayer-funded contracts, while keeping their marriage a secret. And now? Associated Press:

The State Department has dismissed an analyst who may have helped award millions in contracts to a company run by her husband and daughter.

A State Department spokeswoman, Heide Bronke Fulton, said Wednesday the department has launched an investigation over allegations against Kathleen McGrade.

The State Department fired an employee who screwed up? Well, whaddaya know…

P.S. Boyle has more.