That which does not kill me only makes me blog more.
I think my headline is a legitimate question, considering yesterday’s NY Post report:
The State Department has hired an alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process, a stunning memo obtained by The Post reveals.
The background problems are severe enough that many of the roughly 2,000 agents in State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security can play only limited roles in agency efforts to police bad conduct and prosecute wrongdoers.
That’s the exact same bureau that employs McGuinn, who struck me with a State Dept. SUV, while he was on duty, on Feb. 3, 2010. Over three years later, all I’ve ever learned about him is his name, and he wasn’t happy about it. (Click here for that whole story.) I’m sure the State Dept. doesn’t even want me to know that much about him. He didn’t identify himself to me at the scene, and Metro PD never told me who hit me as they were handing out the fraudulent jaywalking ticket they gave me. They certainly didn’t let on that that my shattered knee was the handiwork of a federal agent. Even the State Department’s bull$#!+, lie-filled press release about the incident didn’t name McGuinn.
Why don’t they want people to know who this guy is? Another piece of that puzzle falls into place.
The Daily Mail has followed up on the Post‘s report:
Revealed: State Department employs ‘TWO THOUSAND agents with criminal records or checkered backgrounds’
A concerning number of State Department law-enforcement agents have criminal records or checkered backgrounds, according to memo…
The revelation is the latest disclosure in a series of scandals which are threatening to to engulf the bureau…
Yesterday an internal memo claimed the State Department called off an investigation into allegations that U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman repeatedly trawled overseas public parks in search of prostitutes, including minors.
Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy ordered the investigation closed shortly after it was opened, according to the memo, which was written by the State Department Inspector General’s office. Gutman, who has not been charged with any crimes, said the allegations are ‘baseless.’
‘I am angered and saddened by the baseless allegations that have appeared in the press and to watch the four years I have proudly served in Belgium smeared is devastating,’ Gutman, 56, told MailOnline in an e-mailed statement…
The case against Gutman, a top Obama donor, was being investigated by the Special Investigations Division, an independent investigative arm of the Diplomatic Security Service.
The investigating agent ‘had determined that the ambassador routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children,’ states the memo obtained by MailOnline…
The case against Gutman is just one in a series of supposed State Department coverups outlined in the memo, which was first reported by CBS News’ John Miller.
The incidents were also cited in a November 2012 draft of a report by the Office of the Inspector General on the performance of the Diplomatic Security Service. The report obtained by MailOnline stated that senior government officials were ‘protecting favored [Diplomatic Security] rising stars from criminal charges or from embarrassing revelations that could harm a promising career.’
‘Such interventions take place often enough that several sources in the Department who regularly see [Special Investigations Division] cases summed the situation up with almost identical words: DS should never investigate DS,’ the report continued.
But those sentences, as well as all references to the investigations that were detailed in the memo, were removed from a final draft of the report – which was issued in March 2013 – at the request of Diplomatic Security’s top brass.
They’re so corrupt, they even covered up the internal investigation of all their other cover-ups. They hired a bunch of criminals, hid their crimes, and then hid that.
But what do you expect from a bunch of creeps who cripple a guy and then give him a damn jaywalking ticket? I’m surprised I didn’t get a bill for the scratch on the bumper that my knee made as it inconveniently shattered to pieces. I sure hope McGuinn didn’t get a bruise on his shoulder from his seat belt, the poor fellow. I sure hope his passenger didn’t spill her drink.
In a way, I’m relieved to know I’m not alone. To know I’m not the only one who has suffered at the hands of these bastards. (If you’re out there reading this, if they’ve done something like this to you, I know what you’re going through. I know how they operate. I know how they lie. And lie, and lie, and lie. I feel your pain, and not in the Clintonian sense. I feel it quite literally.)
In another, more accurate way: I want justice. These criminals stole the last three years of my life. I can never get them back. But I will have justice.
P.S.
When I moved to DC, I'd never heard of the @StateDept Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Then they introduced themselves. http://t.co/dhvbwxCg4k
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) June 14, 2013
