VIDEO: CBS's John Miller Reports on State Department Cover Up

Jun. 10, 2013
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CBS News Senior Correspondent John Miller reported today on CBS THIS MORNING that CBS News had uncovered documents indicating that the State Department has in at least eight instances, interfered or attempted to cover up internal investigations that may have harmed some employees' careers.

Miller told co-hosts Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell that the allegations include everything from prostitution to drug use, and extend up the ranks to high-ranking officials, including a U.S. ambassador who remains in his post. The interview broadcast today, June 10, 2013 on CBS THIS MORNING (7:00-9:00 AM) on the CBS Television Network. Watch the appearance in full below!

Miller spoke with former Inspector General Investigator Aurelia Fedenisn, who told him, "We expect to see influence, but the degree to which that influence existed, and how high up it went, was very disturbing."

Excerpts from the report are below. 

John Miller: The Diplomatic Security Service, or "DSS," is the State Department's security force. They protect the Secretary of State, U.S. ambassadors overseas, and investigate misconduct by State Department employees. But according to an internal State Department Inspector General's memo obtained by CBS News, some of those investigations were influenced, manipulated or simply called off. The memo cited eight examples. Among them: In Beirut, allegations that a State Department Security Official "engaged in sexual assaults" on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards. Allegations that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's protective security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries..." and that the problem was "endemic." In Baghdad, information that an "underground drug ring" operating near the U.S. Embassy supplied State Department security contractors with drugs. Aurelia Fedenisn was an investigator for the State Department's internal watchdog agency, the Inspector General.

AURELIA FEDENISN: We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases.

John Miller: In each case, DSS agents told the Inspector General's investigators that higher-ups told them to back off.



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