In what was surely a thorough and rigorous 72-hour investigation, the internal White House review pertaining to allegations of misconduct by White House Advance Staff determined that the White House is innocent of any wrongdoing. As you've probably heard by now, members of the Secret Service and Presidential Military Attache have been implicated as trafficking in Prostitution and general taxpayer-money-wasting hooliganistics while scouting out a hotel for Obama's upcoming visit to Cartagena, Colombia. As Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney declared in a press conference on Monday:
“There have been no specific credible allegations of misconduct by anyone on the White House advance team or the White House staff. Nevertheless, out of due diligence, the White House counsel’s office has conducted a review of the White House advance team and in concluding, that review came to the conclusion that there is no indication that any member of the White House advance team engaged in any improper conduct or behavior...”
Well, I'm glad that's settled.
Good to know that the White House has itself taken care of; Heck, they don't even need to be up-front with us citizens about it. As Devin Dwyer of ABC News reports:
Indeed.[Carney] would not discuss specifics about how the investigation was conducted or whether the findings would be shared with any contacts outside the White House.
The internal inquiry followed days of questions from the press and by some congressional leaders about whether any White House staff may have been involved in the misconduct, which so far includes 11 Secret Service members and 12 members of the military.
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