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To: Sully- who wrote (19196)	4/5/2006 1:31:17 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

If this is true - lock him up & throw away the key. Porn Sting Nabs Federal Official By ANTHONY McCARTNEY amccartney@tampatrib.com TBO.com Published: Apr 5, 2006 LAKELAND - When he wasn't sending pornographic movies to and asking for explicit photos from a teenage girl in Polk County, a Maryland man was bragging about his job as a spokesman at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement officers said. The revelation - actually made to a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl - resulted in the arrest of 55-year-old Brian J. Doyle at his Silver Spring, Md., home Tuesday night, officials said. During his Internet chats, Doyle quickly revealed his name and job, and he sent his office and government-issued cell phone numbers. The information allowed detectives to quickly verify Doyle's identity, the Polk County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday night. Doyle moved quickly in other regards, officials said, sending enough sexually explicit messages and movie clips that they were able to secure a warrant for his arrest on 23 felony counts roughly two weeks after he responded to the detective's profile. Doyle has a first appearance hearing today at 1:00 p.m. in Montgomery County, Md., the Polk County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday morning. The charges stem from Doyle repeatedly requesting the girl he was pursuing to purchase a Web camera so that she could send explicit images to Doyle, sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Rodgers said. Doyle promised to reciprocate, she said. He also sent numerous pornographic movie clips to the girl and used America Online's Instant Messenger program to carry on sexually laced conversations, a news release stated. Maryland officials arrested Doyle at his home and seized his computer. It was unclear Tuesday whether Doyle used his office computer to carry out any of the conversations. He remains jailed awaiting extradition to Florida, Rodgers said. "We take these allegations very seriously and will cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation," Department of Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said. Doyle, a deputy press secretary, has been at the department since it was created in 2002. He started as a spokesman at the Transportation Safety Administration. The charges against Doyle are the second involving a Homeland Security official and alleged improper sexual conduct toward a minor in Central Florida in the past six months. In October, Tampa's newly appointed Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge, Frank Figueroa, was arrested in an Orlando shopping mall, accused of exposing himself to a teenage girl. Figueroa is scheduled to appear in court this morning to enter a guilty plea in that case. Doyle's case began March 12 when he responded to the Internet profile of a 14-year-old girl who was in fact a Polk County sheriff's computer crimes detective, officials said. He sent the detective non-descript pictures of himself, which were used to prove Doyle's identity and job. By March 27, the detective presented the conversations and movie clips to a judge, who deemed them "harmful to minors." The next day, prosecutors filed seven counts of use of a computer to seduce a child and 16 counts of transmission of harmful material to a minor. Sheriff Grady Judd in a statement said his agency will go after sex offenders no matter where they live, and he did not hide his disdain for Doyle. "There is no question that Doyle believed he was having these disgusting, obscene discussions ... with a young girl. His conduct is vile and inexcusable." news.tbo.com

To: Sully- who wrote (19196)	4/5/2006 3:09:44 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

A public service announcement for perverts By Jay Tea on Dumb Criminals Wizbang According to the latest FBI research, there are exactly 12 children in the United States who are below the age of 17 who are online and interested in having sexual relations with men over the age of 30. All the rest are undercover police officers, investigative journalists, and abused-children advocates. Is that clear, Mr. Deputy Press Secretary Of Homeland Security? feeds.wizbangblog.com news.bostonherald.com

To: Sully- who wrote (19196)	4/9/2006 1:09:02 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

This Is What I Meant About Vetting By Captain Ed on National Politics Captain's Quarters On Wednesday, I wrote about the scandal at the DHS surrounding Brian Doyle, the deputy press secretary for the agency who got caught trying to seduce a 14-year-old girl over the Internet. My post criticized the Bush administration for its inability to vet candidates for positions with public exposure, so to speak. A number of commenters reasonably disagreed, making a good point about the difficulty of vetting for personal perversions that necessarily remain in the shadows. Unfortunately for Doyle, the Bush administration, and those of us who support Bush, Doyle's hobbies had already been exposed prior to his 2001 hiring for the Transportation Safety Administration. His former employer, Time Magazine, had to discipline Doyle in 2000 for using company computers to collect adult pornography, according to fellow Time-Warner media outlet CNN: <<< A Department of Homeland Security spokesman charged with soliciting a minor over the Internet was disciplined in a previous job after an incident in which pornographic images were seen on an office computer, his friends and former co-workers said. ... Friends and former co-workers say Doyle was disciplined by Time magazine after he allegedly used company computers to view adult pornography in the publication's Washington bureau office. Time magazine and CNN are both owned by Time Warner. Time began an investigation after an employee in the bureau complained after finding offensive photographs on her computer, sources said. The photos, which were not of juveniles, were traced to Doyle. The complaint was dropped after Doyle's colleagues signed a petition of support, the sources said. Doyle received a formal warning and was required to undergo mental health counseling before returning to work, the sources said. Sources disagree over whether Time suspended Doyle or whether he took a leave of absence after the incident. >>> How did the TSA and the DHS manage to miss this? Federal background checks, especially for clearances, usually require an extensive search through personnel files at previous employers, interviews with co-workers and managers, and an accounting of every disciplinary action. It also usually requires an explanation for any mental-health counseling to determine whether the applicant is stable enough to be trusted with classified information and access to secure facilities. One would hope that the revelation that an applicant used computers at work to download pornography would have at least called his judgment into question. Either it got missed entirely, which doesn't speak well at all for the investigators, or it didn't make a difference to the people who hired him, which doesn't speak well for management at TSA and DHS. Either way, it shows a level of incompetency that does not give anyone warm fuzzies who rely on either agency to help secure the nation. If this report is true, then there is no excuse for Brian Doyle's employment at either agency. Someone's head should be rolling out the door right behind Doyle's. ADDENDUM: One other possibility exists, which is that Time Warner didn't share the information with investigators. That would present Time Warner with a significant public-relations problem if not legal jeopardy. Applicants for law-enforcement agencies routinely sign releases holding former employers without liability for complete cooperation. In my line of work, I occassionally come in contact with police and sheriff departments hiring former employees, and we cooperate fully with their background checks. If Time Warner did not, then that needs to be made public immediately. captainsquartersblog.com captainsquartersblog.com cnn.com

To: Sully- who wrote (19196)	4/10/2006 3:05:28 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

DHS Child Sex Sting Official Is A Democrat By: Kevin Aylward Wizbang Earlier today we listed some of the strong reaction to the arrest of Department of Homeland Security deputy press secretary Brian J. Doyle for attempting to arrange sexual relations with what he believed to be a 14-year-old female. Much of the reaction was critical of the Bush administration for not properly vetting one of their appointees. That assessment is dead wrong. Brian Doyle is a career civil servant - NOT a political appointee. Government workers aren't "vetted." Doyle, as a DHS employee probably has a secret or top secret government clearance, but in DC that's hardly a unique commodity. Unless there is some prior history of pedophilia or sex crimes, the background searches and investigation wouldn't have alerted anyone to the possibility that he might get into the kind of trouble he's in now. The kind of hindsight analysis suggesting that the White House should have been "vetting" the civil service employees of their agencies, is laughable considering that the Clinton administration who dogged for years over the FBI files scandal (Filegate). It's also probably illegal... So what do we know about is Brian Doyle? He's a former long-time Time magazine Washington bureau employee, a civil servant, and a registered Democrat. *** wizbangblog.com The image above is a Wizbang created, graphical representation of actual public record voter registration data obtained (in person) this morning. You can see the raw image here, and it's all (somewhat) easily verifiable. wizbangblog.com The fact that Brian Doyle is a longtime Democrat isn't really indicative of much of anything - his job was apolitical. His arrest in a Florida sting operation, despite the attempts of the left to paint it otherwise, is a personal failing - not one of the Bush administration. wizbangblog.com wizbangblog.com freerepublic.com washingtonpost.com wizbangblog.com