gents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had "sex parties" with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
In addition, Colombian police officers allegedly provided "protection for the DEA agents' weapons and property during the parties," the report states. Ten DEA agents later admitted attending the parties, and some of the agents received suspensions of between two to 10 days.
Typical government "punishment"
WHAT? DEA, ATF, FBI, pistols for pu**y....? Noooooooooo, tell me it isn't so.
The stunning allegations are part of an investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general into claims of sexual harassment and misconduct within DEA, FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Marshals Service. The IG's office found that DEA did not fully comply with its probe.
I see the first bunch of agencies to zero out funding to
The congressional committee charged with federal oversight is already promising hearings and an investigation into the allegations.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz told POLITICO on Thursday he wanted the agencies involved to swiftly fire those involved and that his panel would immediately start digging into the allegations.
"You can't ignore this. This is terribly embarrassing and fundamentally not right," the Utah Republican said. "We need to understand what's happening with the culture…anytime you bring a foreign national into your room, you're asking for trouble."
And yet it will happen again and again as our government becomes more like Caligula's Rome as our Republic dies.