Of course they did. Because what else is a public relations/legal firm like the Obama White House for?:
In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world's worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn't improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, they found, things had grown worse.
The State Department's senior political staff saw it differently - and they prevailed.
A Reuters examination, based on interviews with more than a dozen sources in Washington and foreign capitals, shows that the government office set up to independently grade global efforts to fight human trafficking was repeatedly overruled by senior American diplomats and pressured into inflating assessments of fourteen strategically important....
I.e. American enemies and Barack Obama's radical, extremist friends.
....countries in this year's Trafficking in Persons report.
In all, analysts in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons - or J/TIP, as it's known within the U.S. government - disagreed with U.S. diplomatic bureaus on ratings for seventeen countries, the sources said.
The analysts, who are specialists in assessing efforts to combat modern slavery - such as the illegal trade in humans for forced labor or prostitution - won only three of those disputes, the worst ratio in the fifteen-year history of the unit, according to the sources.
As a result, not only Malaysia, Cuba and China, but countries such as India, Uzbekistan and Mexico, wound up with better grades than the State Department's human-rights experts wanted to give them, the sources said.
By the way, Malaysia was given a "get out of jail free" card because they're part of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade "deal," even though they reportedly haven't done a damn think to clean up their human rights act. Just thought y'all might find that "interesting". The Castro Brothers got theirs because....they're the Castro brothers and Barack Obama is building his "foreign policy legacy". Red China's human rights record actually got markedly worse, but they're (1) also part of the TPP, (2) Obama's fellow Marxists, and (3) China. I guess you could say they're "too big to fail".
I am somewhat less than entirely flabbergasted that J/TIP has been as thoroughly corrupted as everything else in this criminal cabal, but what I don't understand is why Foggy Bottom doesn't just abolish J/TIP and be done with it, since they're going to whitewash the human rights records of all their radical extremist friends anyway. Why not cut out the middle man and draw less attention to it? No matter how proud they are of their perfidy?
As it is, they had to go to the trouble of issuing the bland, standard, boilerplate, blatant falsehoods:
State Department officials say the ratings are not politicized. "As is always the case, final decisions are reached only after rigorous analysis and discussion between the TIP office, relevant regional bureaus and senior State Department leaders," State Department spokesman John Kirby said in response to queries by Reuters.
Yeah - the TIP office conducts the rigorous analysis and discussion, and then the "senior State Department leaders" make them re-write their reports to excuse Obama's radical extremist friends. Nothing "political" about that.
Still, by the time the report was released on July 27th, Malaysia and Cuba were both removed from the "Tier 3" blacklist, even though the State Department's own trafficking experts believed neither had made notable improvements, according to the sources.
Remember, folks: reality is not reality, facts are not facts, but both are whatever Barack Obama says they are and needs them to be on any given day. And we are legally required to nod our heads and believe it, in thought, word, and deed.
Or we'll wind up on the "Tier 3" blacklist.
Exit question: I can't help wondering how low, say, Israel was downgraded by "senior State Department leaders" on the J/TIP list. Or has The One finally just gone ahead and broken off diplomatic relations altogether?
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