The Washington Post reports on the arrest of Brian J. Doyle, deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. It’s not your everyday prostitute/DUI/money laundering type of arrest though.
[He] was arrested at his Silver Spring home at 7:45 p.m. and charged with seven counts of using a computer to seduce a child and 16 counts of transmitting harmful materials to a minor, according to a sheriff’s office statement.
I wonder if W will give this guy a medal for something now.
Update [2006-4-5 12:55:36 by albert]: Street Kid very much had the scoop
Doyle was online at the time awaiting what he thought was a nude image of a girl who had lymphoma, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in an interview with Fox News’ “On the Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “We wanted to make sure he was using that computer and talking to detectives at the time of the arrest,” Judd said.
In his initial communication last month, Doyle told an undercover computer-crimes detective who he was and that he worked for the Department of Homeland Security, later disclosing numbers for his office phone and government-issued cellphone and using those lines, the sheriff’s office said.
He’s giving out his government issue cell phone number to some random “girl” he’s courting on the internet? How easy could it be to get information out of these guys? Is Al-Queda’s next approach going to be tempting DHS officials with screenshots from Barely Legal in exchange for Top Secret / Classified information?
Makes you feel safer, don’t it?
Via jem6x’s diary at dKos:
AND
another link to Christy Hardin Smith at firedoglake via jem6x’s diary:
WTF???
Does the Department of Homeland Security make you and your family feel safer?
medals for all of them!
But will This guy’s head roll?
If the Dems don’t start a major shitstorm about this, we need to get our cattleprods charged.
Republicans R Freaks.
Probably not. Had to go to the store earlier and just happenned to mention this to a few people. One who “overheard the conversation” said that it was necessary to pray for this sicko!
Now I am wondering if an LTE campaign is nescessary…?
People who are into praying might want to consider praying for the victims of all the fuckers who will probably have psychological problems due to these predators.
which said that this guy was wearing his Homeland Security badge on one of his webcam transmissions.
Even if you put the criminality of his actions aside, the fact that we have people this fucking stupid working for that department scares the bejeesus out of me.
And we thought Brownie was a dumbass. Tip of the iceberg. How long before W hisself if hawled in for kid porn?
These people are sick and evil.
Frightening under-reported news of the month: They still haven’t found a replacement for Brown so FEMA will be even more rudderless for the upcoming hurricane season than it was last year. Maybe Chertoff will prove to be competent when he actually bothers to get involved, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Not just working for the department, this guy was their public spokesman.
Got to wonder wtf else is going on at DHS…?
As others have pointed out elsewhere, the administration also claims unlimited authority for people like this to spy on our kids to help “protect” us from terrorists. One more reason to fear absolute power.
The similarities to V for Vendetta are just way too close for comfort.
if you’ve only seen the movie, read the graphic novel too!
I think I will.
And I know this may be OT, but what’s the difference b/w a graphic novel and a comic book?
Number of pages.
indeedy, this thing is pretty hefty
Think gwb will say that he did a “heckuva job”?
and medals!
I swear, this thing has got to get out into more of the papers w/some righteously indignant lte’s.
So who else thinks that they will find some way to blame this on gay marriage?
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LOL! Wouldn’t suprise me a bit if they came up w/something to tie the two together.