WASHINGTON — The State Department has hired an alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process, a stunning memo obtained by The Post reveals.

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.

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I can speak from personal knowledge here......(family member is one of these DSS agents hired in the Bush years).....

And from this personal knowledge I can say that prior to Hillary running the SD, the hiring was pretty stringent. The applicant was not only background checked relentlessly, but even 'we' his family members were background checked!

Therefore, by-passing these stringent background checks occurred later, under Hillary. The buck stops at her desk and Obama's as HER employer.