White House Aides knew about and hid Secret Service Prostitution information

Just when things seem the darkest, a bit of good news. Previously we heard that the D.C. Court was holding Eric Holder’s feet to the fire in the failure to produce documents, now the Washington Post picks up on the Secret Service prostitution coverup story.This could be a big one. And having the Post on their tail won’t hurt a bit. The clip over at the post is worth taking the ride over. Here we go:

As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved.

But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member — yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.

The lead investigator later told Senate staffers that he felt pressure from his superiors in the office of Charles K. Edwards, who was then the acting inspector general, to withhold evidence — and that, in the heat of an election year, decisions were being made with political considerations in mind.

“We were directed at the time . . . to delay the report of the investigation until after the 2012 election,” David Nieland, the lead investigator on the Colombia case for the DHS inspector general’s office, told Senate staffers, according to three people with knowledge of his statement.

Nieland added that his superiors told him “to withhold and alter certain information in the report of investigation because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration.”

Read more with video over at  the Washington Post with James Carney denying the WH had any knowledge.

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