July 23, 2010, - 4:53 pm
Rich Blackmail Targets: Many Pentagon Officials w/ Top Secret Clearance Had Child Porn
Several years ago, I wrote about Brian J. Doyle, a top Homeland Security official who was caught trying to solicit sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl, online. Instead it turned out to be sheriffs in Polk County, Florida. But, as I noted then, thank G-d the sheriffs caught him before Muslims did. They could have blackmailed him into doing who knows what against America.
Now, the Boston Globe reports that many Pentagon employees with top secret security clearance have been caught buying and possessing child pornography. Can you imagine what would happen if only a fraction of them had the peccadilloes discovered by Islamic terrorists before our government did? It’s very scary. Kudos to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who originally caught these people through Operation Flicker.
Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports.
The investigations have included employees of the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — which deal with some of the most sensitive work in intelligence and defense — among other organizations within the Defense Department. . . .
The fact that offenders include people with access to government secrets puts national security agencies “at risk of blackmail, bribery, and threats, especially since these individuals typically have access to military installations,’’ according to one report by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service from late 2009.
Some of the individuals have been prosecuted and other cases have been dropped, while more have languished several years without resolution, according to the previously undisclosed documents about the investigations.
The more than 50 pages, compiled by the investigative service, part of the Pentagon’s Inspector General’s Office, contain summaries of investigations initiated since 2002, including some cases that remain open.
The uneven discipline reflects difficulties in bringing prosecutions, according to specialists. The evidentiary standards are high for prosecution in child pornography cases, according to child welfare specialists, including positively identifying victims as underage or known victims of abuse. In others, evidence was lost or misplaced and investigators said they lacked sufficient resources to complete all of them.
These are the people we caught. Who didn’t we catch? And who knows about their child porn predilections . . . and will use it against them to blackmail and extort their way through our national security?
Don’t think there aren’t plenty of both the former and the latter.
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Part of the problem may be due to PC. Security reviews are supposed to be preventive, & to catch people with weird sexual proclivities; but after all the PC, gay marriage, etc. the reviews probably aren’t as tough as they used to be. In the early 50s, lots of gays were wisely removed from Government because of the threat of blackmail, but today, the security investigators are probably so cowed that they’re afraid to check these things, just like they’re afraid to curb Muslim terrorists in the armed forces.
Little Al on July 23, 2010 at 4:59 pm