Hillary's officials cut criticisms out of State Dept reports

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Washington Examiner:

Sarah Westwood

June 8, 2015

 

State Department officials edited out passages of a high-profile report in 2013 that could have embarrassed Hillary Clinton just days before she quit President Obama's Cabinet.

 

The officials, inside the Inspector General's office, excised details of an cover-up of misconduct by Clinton's security team. The edits raise concerns that investigators were subjected to "undue influence" from agency officials.

 

The Washington Examiner obtained earlier drafts of the report which differ markedly from the final version. References to specific cases in which high-level State officials intervened and descriptions of the extent and frequency of those interventions appear in several early drafts but were later eliminated.

 

The unexplained gaps in the final version, and the removal of passages that would have damaged the State Department, call into question the independence of Harold Geisel, who was State's temporary inspector general throughout Clinton's four years at the head of the department.

 

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