arise out of a lawsuit in texas set to go it trial this fall. veteran d.s. agent rick him buy is suing the state department over claims that he was discriminated against by his superiors after he refused overseas work assignments because that s higby s daughter was born with chronic and often terminal illness. rejected his claims. in late february of this year two top ds officials scott who is director of ds until february 1st and tracy mehaffey still the director sat for videotaped depositions in which they were asked respectively if they knew of any criticism by other agencies to the fact that dss failed to follow procedures or if they knew about any pending investigations into ds? none that come to my mind right now. i m not aware of any. just two month earlier, however, both officials sat in on a meeting with investigators from the office of inspector general and damning findings about d.s. investigations being compromised by higher ups at state.