ServerGate may be followed by InspectorGate.

From 2009 to 2013, she traveled to more nations than any top U.S. diplomat in history. But U.S. foreign policy today is in a shambles, from a destabilized Middle East on the threshold of a nuclear arms race to a backfired Russian "reset" with ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin becoming more aggressive to America than any time since the Cold War.

Now that incompetence is compounded by more scandal. Richard Higbie, a senior criminal investigator at State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, gave the Washington Examiner early drafts of a 2013 investigation into the department's policies and effectiveness.

Among the passages purged from the final version was one noting that "Inspectors learned in conversations with Department employees . .. that in some cases superiors in (diplomatic security) and in senior levels of the State Department have prejudiced the commencement, course and outcome of (special investigations)."