Despite the Left's constant attempts to vilify the Republican Party as a degenerate bunch -- such as the Women's March against Donald Trump and the Left's castigation of Roy Moore -- the Obama administration had quite the closet full of sexual harassment skeletons itself, as it turns out.
According to the Justice Department's Inspector General, the department was rife with "systemic" problems of the sexual harassment variety over the last half-decade. This news comes via a Washington Post report, which conveniently left out the Democratic names of Obama and Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.
The report calls for "high level action" to address the scourge of sexual misconduct within the organization. WaPo notes that the last five years have seen allegations of sexual impropriety increase, involving "senior Justice Department officials across the country."
Reporter Sari Horwitz declined to mention any administration officials by name, despite the fact that the "most troubling allegations" occurred under their supervision.
In one case, a woman who was the repeated victim of groping and "sexually charged comments" said she was "terrified [she] was going to get in the elevator and [the harasser] would be there." Not only was the DOJ remiss in its handling of the charge, it permitted "potential criminal assault violations" to occur, as indicated by the report. Despite this, the Inspector General's office at the time "found no evidence in the case file that a referral was made to the [Inspector General] or any other law enforcement entity.”
An attorney in the Office of Immigration Litigation under Eric Holder admitted to stalking a female associate, going so far as to hack into her personal email account. In addition, Theodore Atkinson constructed "a fictitious online profile to entice her," according to the IG. As punishment, Atkinson was merely issued "a written reprimand and reduction of title," with no decrease in pay and no suspension.
Atkinson recently received a "Special Commendation Award from the Civil Division."
WaPo described numerous other reported incidents which remained free of significant ramifications. As noted by The Daily Mail, covering the WaPo story:
A Civil Division lawyer groped the breasts and buttocks of two female trial attorneys.
A female U.S. attorney carried on a year-long sexual relationship with a subordinate, and then harassed him via emails and text messages when the relationship went sour.
And an assistant FBI special agent in charge was in the habit of asking female employees if they 'wanted to see his balls.'
His office included a display of his baseball collection.The same agent groped female employees and told one that he admired her 'come-f***-me boots.'
The Inspector General was quoted as saying:
“Sexual harassment and misconduct is one of the very important areas we have to focus on and take seriously because of all the reasons the public is seeing now. People’s attitudes have to change. Our interest is shining light on this kind of activity.”
Despite the realities of sexual misconduct plaguing the DOJ, AG Lynch smoke-and-mirrored her way through the era, boasting $2.7 million in funding to "strengthen the Justice System's Response to Sexual Assault," according to a press release for the DOJ at the time. Furthermore, she claimed:
“The Department of Justice is committed to doing everything it can to help prevent, investigate and prosecute these horrendous crimes – including working to ensure that our greatest partners in this effort, the state and local law enforcement officers on whom we all rely, have the tools, training and resources they need to fairly and effectively address allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence."
As it continues to thrust accusations against President Donald Trump in particular and Republicans in general, the Left would do well to be reminded: people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Barack Obama's Department of Justice, apparently, was such a house.
