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Arise out of a lawsuit in texas set to go it trial this fall. veteran d.s. agent rick him buy is suing the state department over claims that he was discriminated against by his superiors after he refused overseas work assignments because that's higby's daughter was born with chronic and often terminal illness. rejected his claims. in late february of this year two top ds officials scott who is director of ds until february 1st and tracy mehaffey still the director sat for videotaped depositions in which they were asked respectively if they knew of any criticism by other agencies to the fact th...

What exactly did you find? >> so what we found was, there was an inspector general's assessment of dss, the diplomatic security service. anderson, that's the people who are providing security details for the secretary of state and ambassadors overseas. but they also do criminal investigations. but they also investigate wrong doing among state department employees. basically, the inspector general found there were a number of agents that they interviewed who said, my investigations go fine until they go towards scandal, then they're cut off or interfered with. so we had accounts from agents who...

That is a full-time job there. >> i want to switch gears to a story you broke a couple of days ago, a potential scandal brewing at the state department. what exactly did you find? >> so what we found was, there was an inspector general's assessment of dss, the diplomatic security service. anderson, that's the people who are providing security details for the secretary of state and ambassadors overseas. but they also do criminal investigations. but they also investigate wrong doing among state department employees. basically, the inspector general found there were a number of agents that they i...

Hack into universities. that is a full time job there. >> i want to switch gears to a different story. >> what we found was there was an inspector general's assessment of dss. that's the people who are, provide the security details for the secretary of state and ambassadors overseas, but they also do criminal investigations, but they also investigate wrongdoing among state department employees. and basically the inspector general found that there were a number of agents that they interviewed who said well, my investigations go fine until they tart to go towards scandal. and then they're either...

One is actually what got released, two very different documents and that seems to be at the center of the scandal you've unearthed. tell me about this. >> this was an inspection, not even an investigation. basically when the inspectors from the inspector general come to do an assessment given how the division is operating and being managed, they look at the diplomatic security service. these are the people who are the protect tomorrows of the secretary of state, they guard foreign u.s. ambassadors in foreign countries, but they also do criminal investigations from passport fraud to if a state ...