THE HILL: Report: Secret Service prostitution investigator resigns after own incident.

The investigator who led the internal inquiry into the 2012 Secret Service prostitution scandal resigned in August after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute, according to a report from the New York Times.

Local law enforcement in Florida reportedly saw David Nieland, the investigator, going in and out of a building they were surveilling as part of a prostitution investigation. The prostitute later identified Nieland as a client.

Nieland said that the allegations were untrue in a statement to the Times. As of Tuesday, he had not been charged in connection with the incident.

Nieland is said to have resigned after he refused to answer questions from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office. DHS is the supervising agency of the Secret Service.

Nieland was the lead investigator examining charges that several Secret Service agents used prostitutes while in Cartagena, Colombia in advance of a trip to the country by President Obama.

Nieland has said that he was asked to keep information out of his final report to protect the child of a Democratic donor, who was volunteering with the White House advance team on the trip. Some were suspicious that the volunteer had brought a prostitute back to his room.

He says that he was later suspended without pay for two weeks as retaliation. His supervisors have said it was because he circulated around his office images of a female intern’s feet.

So is he being smeared because he leaked? Was he chosen to investigate because he was smearable? Or is everybody at DHS seeing hookers? None of these possibilities look good.