The State Department stops providing bomb-sniffing dogs to Jordan and Egypt after a new inspector general report finds several more deaths in both countries' care.
After it was published, a whistleblower notified the IG of additional canine deaths -- none of which were shared by the department's bureau of Diplomatic Security with the IG's office when it was investigating and drafting the original report.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, was initially in charge of providing canines to countries -- 10 in total: Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Oman and Thailand. But the State Department developed its own program in 2016 where dogs and their new foreign trainers are trained in the U.S. and then sent back home.
Egyptian policemen with a explosive sniffing dog secure a pedestrian tunnel located near the site of a bomb attack in Cairo, April 8, 2005."Any death of a canine in the field is an extremely sad event, and we will take every measure possible to prevent this from happening in the future," the official added.
State Department officials have cited a lengthy verification process for failing to disclose the additional deaths to the IG investigators.
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