You don't get much more embarrassing than this. Clawson has been in congress for about four weeks now, having replaced the cocaine-snorting Trey Radel. via Sahil Kapur at TPM. Video by Foreign Policy magazine. In an extraordinary -- and extraordinarily awkward -- failure of basic situational awareness, a U.S. congressman apparently mistook American government officials for Indian government officials during a congressional hearing. As first reported by Foreign Policy magazine, freshman Rep.