The Obama administration has repeatedly denied that anyone from his administration was involved with the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal in Columbia.
But the Washington Post reports that new information suggests one of the presidential advance-team members was involved but never thorough investigated.
In fact, the White House continued to say no one from the administration was involved, despite evidence that includes hotel records and firsthand accounts.
The lead investigator said he was pressured to withhold evidence.
“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.
According to Nieland, his supervisors told him “to withhold and alter certain information in the report of investigation because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration.”
