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Homeland (In)security (Updated) genre: Polispeak

Does anyone else wonder how secure we really are when an employee at the Department of Homeland Security, Brian J. Doyle, is on his computer making sexual solicitations to what he thinks is a fourteen year old girl? If anyone should know what methods are being used to monitor criminal internet activity, wouldn't you think it would be an employee of this Department? AMERICAblog has more here.

It was just in March of 2006 that the Department of Homeland Security held a news conference at which they announced the arrests of a number of people involved in a child pornography ring. Doyle was the Deputy Press Secretary for the Department. You can read the actual press release from the Office of the Press Secretary in July of 2003 in which they touted their own specific program to pursue these perpetrators, "Operation Predator", here. Apparently, their own employees don't read their own press releases or watch the news or they think they have a get out of jail free card. This Deaprtment seems unable to distance itself from ever increasing and damaging scrutiny.

UPDATE:

Frank Figueroa, a former top official in "Operation Predator" was in court today to enter a plea related to his exposing himself to an underage girl. He entered a plea of no contest. Read more here, and here.