{"id":8012,"date":"2015-03-27T19:05:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2018-07-03T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T22:01:40","slug":"dea-agents-had-sex-parties-with-prostitutes-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/03\/27\/dea-agents-had-sex-parties-with-prostitutes-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA agents had &#8216;sex parties&#8217; with prostitutes, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had \u201csex parties\u201d with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Colombian police officers allegedly provided \u201cprotection for the DEA agents\u2019 weapons and property during the parties,\u201d the report states. Ten DEA agents later admitted attending the parties, and some of the agents received suspensions of two to 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>The stunning allegations are part of an investigation by the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general into claims of sexual harassment and misconduct within DEA; FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals Service. The IG\u2019s office found that DEA did not fully cooperate with its probe.<\/p>\n<p>The congressional committee charged with federal oversight is already promising hearings and an investigation into the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:\u00a0<a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/dea-sex-parties-colombia-report-116413.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/dea-sex-parties-colombia-report-116413.html\">http:\/\/www.politico. \u2026 a-report-116413.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had \u201csex parties\u201d 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 \u201cprotection for the DEA agents\u2019 weapons and property during the parties,\u201d the report states. Ten DEA agents later admitted attending the parties, and some of the agents received suspensions of two to 10 days. The stunning allegations are part of an investigation by the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general into claims of sexual harassment and misconduct within DEA; FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals Service. The IG\u2019s office found that DEA did not fully cooperate with its probe. 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. Full article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.politico. \u2026 a-report-116413.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[546],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-dea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}