New York Post – by GEOFF EARLE and S.A. MILLER
WASHINGTON — A top State Department official stymied investigators trying to get to the bottom of four killings in Honduras involving DEA agents and local police — yet another revelation from internal memos leaked by a whistleblower claiming a pattern of coverups.
The incident ended in the deaths of two pregnant women and two men last year, after Honduran national police opened fire from a State Department-owned helicopter on a small boat.
Honduran police said drugs were involved, but locals said the boat was full of fishermen. The killings were referenced in a whistleblower memo obtained by The Post.
Two Drug Enforcement Administration agents were involved, an agency spokeswoman said, and they were accompanied by Honduran national police on two State helicopters with contractors as pilots.
According to an internal 2012 document, the DEA agents were under the authority of the State Department chief of mission in Honduras, funded by a counternarcotics program, and were “subject to investigation” by State investigators.
But when those inquiries began, “despite requests by the US ambassador to Honduras and congressional pressure, DEA reportedly [was] not cooperating.”
The memo says an agent interviewed William Brownfield, the assistant secretary for international narcotics and law-enforcement affairs, “who reportedly was not forthcoming and gave the impression” that State “should not pursue the investigation.”
DEA spokeswoman Dawn Dearden said no US investigation had occurred because “DEA never fired a single round.”
Aurelia Fedenisn, a State Department inspector general investigator who turned whistleblower, is already accusing higher-ups of squelching findings from an investigative report that members of then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail and the US ambassador to Belgium allegedly solicited hookers.
Howard Gutman, the ambassador, said yesterday he was “angered and saddened by the baseless allegations.” And State official Patrick Kennedy said he had “never once interfered” in any investigation.
The GOP-run House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Democrat-run Senate Foreign Relations Committee have both opened investigations into the cases.
“The sanitizing of these reports explains Benghazi,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said of the alleged State coverups.
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““The sanitizing of these reports explains Benghazi,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said of the alleged State coverups.”
Oh shut the hell up, Lindsey. As if Republicans had nothing to do with Benghazi. Talk to McCain, you dumbass. Enough the false left/right paradigm party propaganda crap. Hell, you should talk yourself. You have more skeletons and cover-ups in your closet than anyone else, you two-faced, Zionist piece of shit.