The New York Post reported Thursday that on Hillary Clinton‘s watch, the State Department employed an “alarming” number of security agents with criminal or questionable backgrounds. The bombshell was revealed in a “stunning” memo the newspaper had obtained:

The background problems are severe enough that many of the roughly 2,000 agents in State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security can play only limited roles in agency efforts to police bad conduct and prosecute wrongdoers.
The problems in the bureau are the latest revelation in an exploding scandal that also involves accusations that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail and those of the US ambassador to Belgium solicited prostitutes overseas.

These latest revelations, and lingering unanswered questions about the September 11 attacks on the U.S.consulate in Benghazi, could be problematic at the very least for those — including Nancy Pelosi and Warren Buffet — who are urging former Secretary Clinton to mount a second campaign for the presidency. For her part, Clinton denies any knowledge of wrongdoing at Foggy Bottom during her tenure.