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It’s come down to this.<\/p>\n

The attorney general of the United States of America has issued a memo to staff lawyers and law enforcement officials under the Department of Justice authority urging them against hiring hookers.<\/p>\n

How bizarre is that?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/eric-holder-prostitution-memo-116865.html?hp=c3_3<\/p>\n

The memo comes from outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder after a report found widespread sexual abuse among several agencies within the DOJ purview. As Politico reported: “Holder wrote that, despite prostitution being legal in parts of Nevada and abroad, department employees are expected to refrain, ‘not simply because it invites extortion, blackmail, and leaks of sensitive or classified information, but also because it undermines the Department\u2019s efforts to eradicate the scourge of human trafficking.’\u201d<\/p>\n

As if the department’s legal eagles and investigators didn’t know all that?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if this isn’t somehow Holder’s swan song memo to employees. Whatever it is, doesn’t seem to be understood that the individuals who work for the Department of Justice should know better than to hire hookers to give them, um, pleasure?<\/p>\n

We’ve seen report of agents consorting with “businesswomen” in Colombia, of them fooling around\u00a0while serving on\u00a0advance teams sent in ahead of the president.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just me, but I expect better from the individuals hired to do dangerous, sensitive and life-threatening work.<\/p>\n

As for the DOJ effort to “eradicate the scourge of human trafficking,” it’s clear that the agency cannot be credible in that effort if its team is engaged in the very behavior that promotes such tragic endeavors.<\/p>\n\n

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