THE HILL: State Department watchdog blasted for keeping hooker claims from Congress. “In a letter to the department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) blasts the agency over a February report that was scrubbed of specific references to misconduct allegations that included eight cases of State Department officials sleeping with prostitutes and other misconduct.”

The Walpin firing, early in Obama’s first term, was intended to intimidate Inspectors General. It appears to have succeeded.