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Hillary Clinton is said to be genuinely offended at reports of misconduct by private guards at a US embassy.
The State Department has demanded the replacement of the entire management team of its security contractor at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan and requested the removal of all personnel involved in a scandal in which private guards allegedly engaged in lewd behavior and drunken brawls, officials said Friday.
In perhaps its most unseemly allegation, the group reported that guard supervisors at the embassy engaged in "near-weekly deviant hazing and humiliation of subordinates" at the Kabul camp where they were housed. The report was accompanied by graphic photos and videos, including one showing a guard drinking vodka that had been poured over another man's naked backside. About 30 guards and supervisors were involved in the improper activities, the group said.
Ian Kelly, a State Department spokesman, said 120 guards had been interviewed so far as part of investigations into the allegations.
"We did ask the ArmorGroup to remove all personnel involved in these disgusting events that you've seen in the photos," Kelly said.
The contractor, McLean-based ArmorGroup North America, has so far terminated the contracts of eight of the guards and two others have resigned, according to a statement from the embassy in Kabul. The men left Afghanistan on Friday, the statement said.
Marthena Cowart, the director of communications at the Project on Government Oversight, praised the move and said the guards had also lost their U.S. government security clearances.
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