Graham Expresses Concerns over Possible State Department Cover ups, Halted Investigations

yes this morning and good morning or good morning to you Charlie we begin with a Porter is new details of the CBS news investigation the state department's inspector general is

even stopped investigations of diplomats and agents and this morning Congress is getting involved Nancy cordis's on Capitol Hill Nancy good morning good

morning or that's right Congressional leaders from both sides are calling these allegations appalling

investigators to look into the matter the state department would not address the specific instances

where agency watchdogs complained that high ranking state department officials had interfered

cases of alleged misconduct or criminal activity are outlined in an October twenty twelve memo first

uncovered by CBS news one case involved the U. S. ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman suspected

of soliciting prostitutes in a public park another had to do with allegations that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's security detail engaged

prostitutes on foreign trips and that the practice was endemic the memo indicated that when agents from the diplomatic security service tried to investigate they

were told to back off that is chilling and unacceptable South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham a harsh critic of the Clinton state department is

will see the state department announced they will somebody in the state department is shielding that

information and manipulating that information that is completely unacceptable because you can't fix a problem unless

you identified the memo identified undersecretary of state Patrick Kennedy is the official who shut down the investigation into ambassador got men John

Miller from CBS news CBS is John Miller spoke with Mike poll it's the former top state department security official in Brussels pullets

requested the investigation into the ambassadors activities and said investigators were ordered to stand down who

told him to stop well I got the information through my DS channel but it came from somebody higher than the estimate her in

ambassador Gutman called the allegations he solicited prostitutes baseless do you watch the four years I have proudly served in Belgium smeared is

devastating he wrote I live in a beautiful park in Brussels that you walk through to get to many locations and

at no point have I engaged in any improper activity nd state department insists that all

eight cases are either under review right now or have already been investigated but lawmakers insist that a big

problem here Charlie and nor is that no one has been appointed to head the inspector general's office that is the independent watchdog with in the state department for

four and a half years now Nancy Korda's thank you and