State Dept. Inspector General: U.S. Ambassador to Belgium 'Solicited Prostitutes, Including Minors'

Weekly standard ^ | 9:22 AM, Jun 11, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

[Perdogg]

The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, is suspected of soliciting prostitutes and possibly minors, according to a State Department memo. The details are published in today's New York Post.

"A [Diplomatic Security] agent was called off a case against US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman over claims that he solicited prostitutes, including minors," reports the Post.

[Sergio]

I thought only catholic priests raped children

In reality, it's homosexuals who just happen to be Catholic priests.

[longfellowsmuse]

agree..... and those who allow them into seminary are fools

[Norm Lenhart]

“will be kept silent.”

No, “Will willfully remain silent and obstruct any action to prosecute whatsoever.”

[kcvl]

Gutman represented a wide variety of clients during his 25-year career, including acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and many states’ attorney generals in suits against Microsoft Corporation. Gutman also once represented Susan Rosenberg, a former member of the Weather Underground

According to OpenSecrets.org, in 2008, Gutman was part of the Obama National Finance Committee and later a trustee on the Presidential Inauguration Committee. Gutman and his wife, Michelle Loewinger, have contributed at least $86,150 to Democratic candidates, parties and committees since 1989. Gutman contributed the legal maximum of $2300 to Bill Clinton’s presidential bid. Both he and his wife contributed the legal maximum of $4600 a piece to Obama’s presidential run. Gutman bundled at least half a million for Obama’s campaign committee and another $275,000 for his inauguration.

Among the media work Gutman performed during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, Gutman was a frequent contributor to Fox News. On one appearance, in September 2008, on the Laura Ingraham radio show, when asked whether the media was being unduly harsh on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, because she was a woman, Gutman said,

This has nothing to do with gender, whether Todd Palin was the nominee or Sarah Palin was the nominee. If my daughter had just come home at 17 years old and said, ‘Mom, Dad, I’m pregnant, we have a family problem, ‘I wouldn’t say, ‘You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to take this private family problem...and you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to go on the international stage and broadcast this to the world.…This wasn’t a working mother issue, this was a parent issue.

[kcvl]

Speaking to the European Jewish Union and an association of Jewish lawyers in Brussels, Ambassador Howard Gutman said a distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, much of which is held by people who also hate most minorities, and some Muslim hatred for Jews, which is fueled by the ongoing conflict in the Mideast.

“There is significant anger and resentment and, yes, perhaps sometimes hatred and indeed sometimes an all too growing intimidation and violence directed at Jews generally as a result of the continuing tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories and other Arab neighbors in the Middle East,”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/04/obama-ambassador-under-fire-for-blaming-israel-for-muslim-anti-semitism/#ixzz2VvOZLmfs

[Windflier]

The Scandalanche continues...

[GVnana]

Me thinks we will be seeing a lot of this kind of thing to deflect attention from Obama. And I hear Hillary Clinton is inventing news every day on the social media.

[PapaBear3625]

The story links to the NY Post, which has more details on this and other incidents, including:

* The document states that a security officer stationed in Beirut, Chuck Lisenbee, allegedly engaged in sexual assaults against local guards.

I'm going to guess that there are no female "local guards" in Beirut, and that these were homosexual assaults.

I suspect that a hiring/promotion pattern has been in effect over the last few years, where "protective services" members are chosen more for their being of the same proclivities as the people they guard, than for being competent. They are more worried about homosexual activities being exposed than in people being protected.

[ScottinVA]

This government needs to be rooted out, deep-cleaned and deloused. The corruption would make any Latin American banana republic dictator wince with embarrassment.

[ScottinVA]

I think this one rates a “Let me be clear.”

[Amagi]

That photo of this sick perv is a desecration of Old Glory.
Very hard time in the slammer is my suggestion for this embarrassing twerp.

[kcvl]

In Lebanon, he played the imperialist role (which probably fits his American friend’s account). According to an American who runs a hotel in Beirut, he ran across the real thuggish image of Chuck Lisenbee:

We actually had quite an interesting experience with Chuck Lisenbee in Beirut... my wife and I own Saifi Urban Gardens, and during our annual haloween party in 2010 he and a few other guys including two members of the Lebanese “Mukhabarat” tried to drunkenly break into the back door (because there were about 200 people in line at the front).

After passing us his business card (Regional Security Officer), his buddies tried to threaten us (”you are making a big mistake”, “you will never be allowed to travel to the United States” haha, little did they know that I’m a US citizen). Eventually, they left only to come back 15 minutes later with the head of the Mukhfar Gemayze (police station) demanding that I leave with the police... eventually the policy figured out that it wasn’t a great idea to arrest the owner of a hotel for refusing entry to drunken US embassy officers, and everyone left.

We had to write two letters to the US Embassy before we received a response, at which point they said that Chuck did nothing wrong... I guess they were wrong on that too because the State Department called me two months ago while investigating Chuck for misconduct...

Anyways the whole episode says a lot about how the US Embassy works in Lebanon, and makes me and fellow Americans living in Beirut pretty upset.

http://www.thearabdigest.com/2012/01/chuck-lisenbee-story-of-ashevillian-cia.html#sthash.XAvE0mZT.dpuf

[kcvl]

Chuck Lisenbee

[kcvl]

Sunday, January 1, 2012

The CIA Station in Lebanon outed and exposed....

http://www.thearabdigest.com/search/label/The%20CIA%20in%20Lebanon

The CIA in Lebanon has been receiving serious blows by Hezbollah for months now. The blows started by Hezbollah’s public disclosure of arresting CIA agents within the organisation. The U.S. acknowledged in media reports that its networks in Lebanon have been seriously crippled by the Lebanese Hezbollah who managed to infiltrate the network through double agents. On Friday night, Hezbollah published a full account of the CIA activity in Lebanon, along with the names of four agents. Below are the details of the CIA activity in Lebanon:

The head of the CIA Beirut station is Daniel Patrick Mcfeely (born, 29-06-1966); his predecessor is Louis Kahi (mission ended in 2009). The station is based in an independent building inside the U.S. embassy compound in Awkar, and the CIA officer team is composed of ten personnel, both sexes, all of which enjoy a diplomat status (protected by international law). Hezbollah also names three officers:

1. Rosendo Cedano (Latino name. The CIA prefers Latinos as they have the Middle Eastern look and could blend in easily).
2. Chuck Lisenbee. (This guy is from Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from Roberson High School, famous for graduating the U.S. admiral Robert Cox, in addition to other athletes and basketball players. He has a Facebook profile, on which he like the Lebanese Restaurant Munir in Brumana, Lebanon, and where he changed his profile picture five times recently).
3. Sarah Getter. (I found a profile on Facebook and my space, but I think it is for someone else with the same name)

All of these officers serve for a term of three years in Beirut; the long term officers who spend long fixed tenures are ten. But other officers spend lesser time, and are dispatched in “missions”, sometimes for weeks or months.
The two CIA station heads named by Hezbollah are:

1. Louis Kahi (-2009). Louis has a public shipment order online, from an address in Baltimore to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, through Napoli port.
2. Daniel Patrick McFeely (2009 onwards). This officer’s name is very common on the Internet, there were about three people with public profiles with that name (one of them is an ex U.S. military officer and a contractor, might be him).
Here is a photo of Dan McFeely (centre), his wife and George Boustani.

http://geoplotical.blogspot.com/2012/01/cia-station-in-lebanon-outed-and.html

[kcvl]

Dr. Loewinger Is Bride Of Howard W. Gutman

Published: October 4, 1981

Dr. Michelle Phyllis Loewinger and Howard William Gutman were married yesterday at the Great Neck (L.I.) Jewish Center by Rabbi E. Yechiel Simon.

The bride, a dental resident with the Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx, is an alumna of the Brooklyn Friends School, Barnard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medcine.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Loewinger of Brooklyn. Her father is president of the Loewinger Mold Manufacturing Company, a Brooklyn plastics concern, and her mother is a retired psychiatric social worker and teacher.

Mr. Gutman, who will become law clerk to retired Associate Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in Washington on Oct. 19, was, unt il last week, an associate with the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine& Moore. He p reviously completed a clerkship with Judge Irving L. Goldberg of t he United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

The bridegroom was graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University and magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School. He is the son of Mrs. Max Gutman of Whitestone, Queens, and the late Mr. Gutman, owner of M&R Sportswear, New York manufacturers of women’s clothing.

[cherokee1]

Be fun to see this guy’s medical records——his behavior seems risky?

[seeker41]

I remember being in Brussels in 2001 and was astonished at how many mooselimbs were wandering around the airport.

[IrishPennant]

Nah...the CIA is leaking stuff like granddad with a prostate problem.

We are a long way from done. The fellas in Langley had the required patience, waiting for things to play out but something happened...someone pissed on their leg.

Never, never, never throw the largest spy agency under the bus. Rule two: Never, never, never throw the largest spy agency under the bus. Rule three: remember 1 & 2.

It may not end today. It may not end next month...or next year. But it will end UGLY..and the way the "Shop" wants it to. God Bless them. I am investing heavily in popcorn with movie theater butter.

[Wisconsinlady]

Bill Clinton could be “Jabba the Hut”

[PapaBear3625]

Anyways the whole episode says a lot about how the US Embassy works in Lebanon, and makes me and fellow Americans living in Beirut pretty upset.

It is never a good idea to allow a-holes to piss off the locals, because the locals may take out their anger on other Americans.