And then there were four.
“A high-ranking Defense Department IT official has been arrested and indicted on child pornography charges. … [C]ourt documents allege that Lynch had been operating a peer-to-peer file-sharing program on a computer in his office at DISA. Agents confiscated several computers and more than 1,000 CDs from Lynch’s office.”
UPDATE: The charges have been dropped but the criminal investigation is ongoing.
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Is it ironic that this administration has opened more FBI operations to investigate pornography?
By the way, they’ve cut funds for the FBI and CIA overall. Homeland Securty, my ass.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:52 amYep , the party of god .
April 7th, 2006 at 11:53 amOh My!!! When it rains, it pours. Is this going to be a “trend” with the Bush Administration? I thought the “Child Pornography” angle was a ruse to get internet records. And maybe it was, and this is just a coincidence. Just another episode of “As The Stomach Turns”. Sheesh.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:58 amIn all fairness I don’t know if these guys are career employees or political appointees, whethter they are dems or republicans. Either way though it seems like the DHS people at least should have been screened better.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:59 amGive the people what they want - voters sighted “moral values” as the most important issue to them in 2004. It’s about time we brought some “moral values” to the Republicans in DC.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:59 amWhat, did they recruit Homeland Security officials from Porn sites?
April 7th, 2006 at 12:00 pmDHS = Super Adventure Club.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:02 pmIts not a trend its not a trend!!! Dear god it is not representative of the conservatives!!! No matter how many of us you catch!
April 7th, 2006 at 12:04 pmAlright this is the fourth incident IN A WEEK and I still dont see the Falwells, Dobson’s, or Robertson’s coming out to condemn these acts….
because you know damn well if this was a democrat there would be wall to wall coverage on the 700 Club, the AFA website, etc.
For people who are obseessed with condemn gays because they are supposedly all pedophiles this strikes as blatant hypocrisy……
April 7th, 2006 at 12:06 pmas long as it’s not a BJ they seem to be OK with it.
F**king Perv’s.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:08 pmWhy do all of you anti-child-pornography types hate America?
April 7th, 2006 at 12:17 pmIf it’s DHS, they’re almost certainly Republicans. DHS, as a new agency, has pretty much been used as a repository for GOP hacks.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:17 pmMark (#4) DHS is the republican model of the future of government. It was deliberately designed to go around the normal civil service protocols. EVERYONE in DHS is a political appointment, right down to the janitor who probably works for a cleaning service owned by a big R donor.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:22 pmWhether or not these fine upstanding pro-family “christians” are career employees, Schedule C employees, or rent-a-cops at the front door, its illegal to use government computers for other than “official” purposes. Downloading porn isn’t really one of those purposes, so their respective asses are grass (unless Bush pardons them for their loyal service in spying on the American public, that is). By the way, I know about the official purpose topic on government computers (or any government equipment, be it a cell phone or a government credit card) because I’m a federal employee myself (and on annual leave as I write this).
April 7th, 2006 at 12:28 pmSweet Crippled Christ on a Crutch! By this point I am numb to another arrest, but good lord, this guy work for the DOD and he was DUMB enough to run freaking E-mule, Limewire, whatever on a company machine.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:31 pmHow can I get a job with the DOD or DHS? Are citizens living in Dubai eligible for these wonderful positions?
April 7th, 2006 at 12:37 pmMaybe there’s hope that we’ll find out what services Gannon/Guckert was providing to the White House?
April 7th, 2006 at 12:39 pmalways wondered where all of this child porno was.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:42 pmbeing a liberal I had no idea it even existed, but Ican see now that conservatives knew all about it because it seems to be teh content of all of their friends DVD collections
#4 - It’s already been reported that Chertoff hired Doyle.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:46 pmI missed one - there was the press guy at DHS, the child sex predator program guy at DHS. There is this guy. Who is the fourth?
April 7th, 2006 at 12:49 pmDoes anyone else think that maybe the “enforcers” are seeking out these guys first?
Maybe as a form of payback?
April 7th, 2006 at 12:51 pmActually, the continuing right-wing interest if not obsession with child pornography is neither new nor surprising.
Especially when you think back to 1993 and how David Koresh became such a right-wing cultural icon for (a.)stockpiling guns and (b.)diddling little kids.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:56 pmActually, the continuing right-wing interest if not obsession with child pornography is neither new nor surprising.
Especially when you think back to 1993 and how David Koresh became such a right-wing cultural icon for (a.)stockpiling guns and (b.)diddling little kids.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:56 pmSorry for the double post.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:57 pmBut…but…but…CLINTON! MONICA! HILLARY!!!!!!!
April 7th, 2006 at 1:01 pmI have yet to see any morning shows cover this type of deception. We should e-mail them all and ask them why haven’t they covered these stories.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pmIs it ironic that this administration has opened more FBI operations to investigate pornography?
They don’t appear to lack for enthusiastic volunteers to staff these operations.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:05 pmOkay, so we got:
Brian J. Doyle: Soliciting a Minor
Frank Figueroa: Flashing
This new guy:
Charles Lynch: Running Porn Site
Who is the fourth guy?
Or are we counting:
Claude Allen; Shopliftig Scam
April 7th, 2006 at 1:12 pmSeriously. What the hell’s going on? I mean first of all, someone working for the [explicative] DoD is using a government computer to share child pornography files?
I have an answer for Bush apologists who dismiss libertarian concerns surrounding his illegal spying. One line they like to us is, If you’re not a terrorist you shouldn’t have anything to worry about. Well, if you work in this upstanding government, nobody watching the Watchers means you get to diddle yourself on kiddie porn all day! (Why the hell don’t government computers have programs like Websense blocking porn sites to begin with?)
Jesus Christ. Give me blowjobs between consenting adults any day.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:14 pmEither way though it seems like the DHS people at least should have been screened better.
Bush and his cronies have been trying to destroy the Civil Service System, which has built-in safeguards like background checks for all applicants, even clerical staff; you lie about something as minor as a DUI, you lose your job without appeal. Period. And that’s just for the low-security staff. People in high-security jobs are gone over with fine-tooth combs.
But Bush set up DHS with the express intent to dismantle the Civil Service System. Plus, since it was his pet agency, not many folks outside of the union reps dared fight him on this. And so he was allowed to set up DHS as a monumental turkey farm, the ultimate place to park otherwise-unemployable hacks and sons of donors.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:16 pmBlessed be the righteous. Damned shall be the self-righteous, like these dumb corksoakers.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:38 pmRepub spin…….Chertoff hired this guy to test the new child-porn surveilence system. It is working fine. Everyone can go back home. Nothing to see. OSAMA!!
April 7th, 2006 at 1:40 pmBush HID HIS OWN DUI ARRESTS as well as other arrests (drugs, theft!).
He controls our security! And he let the 9/11 attacks succeed.
ARREST HIM.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:46 pmHe’s got a PhD and was dumb enough to do it out of his office?
Lynch’s bio:
Dr. Lynch received a BS in Engineering Mechanics from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1984, an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Information Technology Engineering from George Mason University in 2000. His academic research was in the integration of unprecedented complex systems.
He served as a regular officer in the U.S. Air Force working space and missile programs at both the system program office and headquarters staff levels. After separating from the Air Force, he worked as a contractor on the Strategic Defense Initiative and the International Space Station programs. He joined the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in 1994 where he worked as a network engineer on global systems and as architect for next generation communications systems.
Source: http://www.usipv6.com/6sense/2004/nov/november.htm
April 7th, 2006 at 2:02 pm4 down, 4 million to go.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:08 pmThe Department of Hideous Security
in action.
Who’s calling your 14 hr old daughter tonight? Will they
be spied on? Oh, Wait! They’re the ones doing the spying!
#33- Bush HID HIS OWN DUI ARRESTS as well as other arrests (drugs, theft!).
He controls our security! And he let the 9/11 attacks succeed.
ARREST HIM.
Emperor Bush was also AWOL from the Air Force, knew Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, spied on US citizens (by-passing FISA), and failed to respond to Katrina.
What more does it take for a nation to rise up?
The French can turn out 3million protesters and get a new law torpedoed. What can the US do?
April 7th, 2006 at 2:33 pmI’m glad that the cops are finally going after real child predators, instead of arresting 16 year old girls for posting pic of themselves on the web.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:46 pm#34 - His evil sickness has nothing to do with common sense.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:47 pmThe French can turn out 3million protesters and get a new law torpedoed. What can the US do?
We (UnitedStatesians) can turn out a couple of million for the sake of continued unsupervised immigration! And in only a matter or days! So there is hope?
Maybe if they unplug the Internet, that’ll finally get us all out into the streets.
April 7th, 2006 at 3:05 pmWhy doesn’t the article state what sort of peer-to-peer software he used? There are various platforms which automatically distribute content across the network as a means to provide redundancy and protection of content. Did he put the content on the network, or did the network put the content on his computer?
April 7th, 2006 at 3:11 pmJust waiting for I-RIGHT-I to weigh in with his explanation of how this is okay because they’re Republicans, and how it’s really Al Gore’s fault for inventing the internets.
( ( ( ( ( ( crickets chirping ) ) ) ) ) ) )
I-RIGHT-I? Bueller? Anyone?
April 7th, 2006 at 3:23 pmApparently the charges were dismissed, but the “investigation continues.”
April 7th, 2006 at 3:57 pmHow freaking dumb are these guys? Or maybe its an addiction and he couldn’t help it. Either way, my 8 year old son knows that what you do on a computer can be tracked and seen by almost anyone.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:10 pmThe folks that decry deviant behavior the loudest, are actually the ones who partake in it, really its a psychological fact all you livin’ in denial Right Wingers who have been duped, and hijacked by a bunch of sickos. And yes DHS is a part of the Bush admin, I sure the odds are, they are all Repubs over there. And if the network put this material on his computer, how did this material get into the local intranet? (yes intranet). If an intelligent, competent, ethical person actually worked somewhere in this Admin, they wouldn’t last long.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:19 pmYou see this sort of thing so often from people on the right. I think that some of these ‘moral values’ types are really just ’save me from myself’ types. They mistakenly think that everyone’s like they are and if everyone were to just cave in to their desires, the world would fall apart.
What they need is therapy, what they wind up with is ideology, and we all wind up paying for it.
Just call the GOP for what it is - Grinning Organization of Perverts.
–
April 7th, 2006 at 4:20 pmhttp://griperblade.blogspot.com - grumblings from the heartland
Come on, everyone, these guys are just trying to emulate the Jesus of that good old gospel song. Sing along, you know the words.
Jesus loves the little children
April 7th, 2006 at 5:13 pm…
I missed one - there was the press guy at DHS, the child sex predator program guy at DHS. There is this guy. Who is the fourth?
You missed this prick:
3rd DHS Employee a Child Sex Criminal?
For a Dateline NBC segment on sex predators, Southern California police set up a sting: A decoy pretended to be a 12- or 13-year old online at home, alone. Sex predators found the decoy on the Internet and arranged to meet. When they showed up, the police arrested them.
Caught in the net was Michael Burks, 30, a former La Verne, Calif. police officer who was a DHS “agent,” according to a Jan. 14 Los Angeles Times article (not online).
April 7th, 2006 at 7:04 pmA guy on HUFFPO points out that since this was all done on the work computer, any department head should have been able to monitor it. So it’s criminals supervised by incompetents. Unless the supervisors turn out to be criminals too.
April 7th, 2006 at 7:11 pm#41, You won’t hear from I-RIGHT-I, he’s busy destroying his hard drive.
April 7th, 2006 at 7:58 pmTwo weeks after a Defense Information Systems Agency official was arrested on a charge of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s office handling the case dropped the charge.
I’d say it’s a slippery slope right now. A smuch as I despise the very thought of people doing that, the charges were dropped. Yes the investigation is continuing but being investigated doesn’t mean guilt.
April 7th, 2006 at 8:16 pm> its illegal to use government computers for other
> than “official†purposes. Downloading porn isn’t
> really one of those purposes,
It doesn’t sound as if what I am going to state is the case, but do keep in mind that if the person has computer security responsibiliites there can in fact be a number of legitimate reasons why he might have pornography on his computer or even have a P2P network of such running. Again, that wouldn’t be my first hypothesis, but it is a possibility.
W
April 7th, 2006 at 8:21 pmDHS Child Sex Sting Official Is A Democrat
Child porn charge against DOD IPv6 director dropped
April 7th, 2006 at 11:20 pmWHOOOAAAA…
I have the following DHS PEDOPHILES
Does anyone have the definitive list???
peace,
oh and FUCK BUSH
April 8th, 2006 at 1:26 am#52
umm, the link you give for DHS CHILD SEX guy is democrat…well, if you were to actually read the article you link to, you would see that the ass-clown blogger
printed the voting record for the WRONG PERSON!!!
thought: neoconservatives, when lacking the facts, just make up new ones that fit their sick worldview.
FUCK BUSH
April 8th, 2006 at 1:57 amMaybe the 4th guy is this guy…
April 8th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
My tag disappeared, so I’ll post the first couple paragraphs:
Federal agents seized computer equipment from the desk of a NASA official March 29, based on information developed during a U.S. Postal Inspection Service undercover investigation of Internet trafficking in child pornography.
TheSmokingGun.com Web site has posted significant excerpts from an affidavit written to request a search warrant outlining much of the case against James R. Robinson, a GS-15 in NASA’s In-Space Propulsion, Mission and Systems Management Division, based at NASA headquarters in Washington. The affidavit was written by a special agent in the NASA inspector general’s office.
April 8th, 2006 at 3:55 pmUm #54 nice try but you’re wrong.
It’s not a voting record it’s his voter registration datamand that’s public record data. See the update for instructions on how to read the printout. It’s not the wrong person - It’s Brian Jame Doyle, now 56 yrs old from Silver Spring, MD. His birthday was last Friday the day the report was run.
It’s public record data, so you can call the Montgomery County Board of Elections and verify it.
April 10th, 2006 at 1:31 amDr. Lynch wasn’t running a porn site, and doesn’t work for DHS. He was a DISA employee. He didn’t even know about the child porn files, which were embeded in other files that were downloaded. I know him personally. He is a good, moral man.
October 7th, 2006 at 3:02 pm