ANOTHER WASHINGTON COVER-UP!

It’s difficult to believe, but they’ve done it again.  Yes, there was Fast & Furious.  Yes, there was overspending at GSA.  Yes there was Benghazi.  Yes, there were those Secret Service Agents frolicking around with prostitutes in a Columbian hotel.  And speaking of the Secret Service, they’ve been covering up a big, bad mistake since 2008. 

As it turns out, there are some 13 current investigations ongoing regarding the Secret Service Agency.  In one incident, two highly sensitive computer tapes were left on a Washington, DC Metro train in 2008.  The tapes contained classified information regarding the identities of agents, contacts and overseas informants.   FOX NEWS reports that sources said the tapes were lost by a young, low-level associate of a private contracting company “that had been hired to transport them from Secret Service's Investigative Resources Management division at the agency's headquarters in the Penn Quarter section of Washington, D.C., to a secure vault in Olney, Md., where government agencies store contingency plans, documents and other backup material. The employee had volunteered to deliver the tapes because he lived near the location of the vault.” 

The Secret Service subsequently neglected to report the incident as required and so began the cover-up. 

This continuing parade of cover-ups is very dangerous to the nation’s security and democracy.  I learned long ago that by admitting mistakes, you get better dialogue on how to avoid repeating them in the future.  And our citizens have every right to know what is going on in our government.  Covering things up has become another part of the “screw Americans” culture that is permeating all corners of Washington. 

We need to demand that Congress in turn demands full accountability from all branches of the government and that cover-ups get punished. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.