WASHINGTON — A new report says Drug Enforcement Administration agents attended sex parties with prostitutes while stationed overseas as far back as 2001.
The report said money to pay prostitutes at a 2003 farewell party for a high-ranking DEA official was included in an operational budget for a DEA field office in Colombia.
Watchdog: DEA agents had ‘sex parties’ with hookers hired by drug cartelsExcerpts of an internal DEA report were released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee. The panel is investigating questionable behavior highlighted in a report by the Justice Department’s inspector general that examines sexual harassment and misconduct allegations from 2009 to 2012.
Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland said the new report “details a truly breathtaking recklessness by DEA agents,” adding that he cannot understand how such “egregious misconduct could have continued for so long.”
BY MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press