Rep urges White House to ‘come clean’ over Colombia prostitution scandal

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Fox News:

A Republican congressman on Thursday urged the White House to "come clean" after claiming to have received "very credible and very specific allegations" that a member of the White House team was "intimately involved with a prostitute" while on assignment in Colombia for a presidential visit.

 

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, also questioned whether a double standard was at play, considering many Secret Service and military personnel were disciplined on that trip for seeing prostitutes and other inappropriate behavior.

 

"The White House needs to come clean," Chaffetz told Fox News. He separately has written a letter to White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough seeking "all documents" from a White House counsel internal review of the incident.

 

The Washington Post reported late Wednesday that the White House team member in question is Jonathan Dach, then a 25-year-old Yale student and volunteer on the advance team. His father, Leslie Dach, is a prolific Democratic donor and currently works in the Obama administration, in the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

According to the Post, Jonathan Dach himself ironically now works, on contract, as an adviser in the State Department's Office on Global Women's Issues.

 

Chaffetz questioned how Dach has been treated, compared with other personnel who were disciplined -- calling it "offensive to the morale" of the Secret Service, which is facing a raft of controversies over everything from the Colombia scandal to recent security failures.

 

"The concern is that when it came to the White House and the White House taking care of its own personnel, a totally different standard," Chaffetz said. "And perhaps some misdirection and some cover-up to make sure that that story never saw the light of day before the 2012 elections."

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The Obama administration, where "Service" has taken on a whole different meaning...