The Consul wrote:The underlying mystery of this tale is whether or not this guy took his pants and underwear off and put them back on all without pulling over. Then what, should he be shot or given a medal?
But heavens to Betsy, it is hard not to watch. You see the stretcher on the side of the road, yellow tarp on it, feet sticking out. Bare feet. Between the interstate. Dark dots of foot prints all over the snow, the body at least forty yards from the jeep that seemed to roll over perfectly with almost no damage. Bare feet, light snow fall, no seatbelt.
You're on the Massachusetts Turn Pike driving uncle Timmy's high riding six wheeler from Pennsylvania with a load of manure and two jugs of pink shit uncle Timmy tells you to give a guy named Floyd lives on a crumbled down farm outside Media, Pa. that you have to ride with in the cab. Smells wicked bad like spoiled turkey. "He'll know what it is," he answers when you ask him what's in the jugs which you can't stop wondering about as you roll. And there, in the 72 Chevelle, you see her ass glowing above the half pulled down pants. What? Swerve. Horns. Jesus, that was close. And then you see his face, all smiley, left arm casually bent around the door, two fingers on the leather wrapped wheel; right hand lifting up a half pint of Kessler's whiskey, tilting his head back as you see the blond curls bobbing up and down in his lap. Woah. Swerve, more horns. Jesus, that was close. You pass them. You pull ahead. You try to start thinking about the pink liguid in the dirty jugs again. But then they pass you, and there's the ass again. He looks at you. He has on a Flyer's Jersey, he smiles as he takes another pull. He swerves, you swerve, more horns. Jesus, that was close. I wonder if he made it into the FBI?
You are one of the best, eh Consul?
Boo! did I scare you?
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tr.v. neu·tral·ized, neu·tral·iz·ing, neu·tral·iz·es
1. To make neutral.
2. To counterbalance or counteract the effect of; render ineffective.
3.Slang To remove as a threat
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http://epic.org/privacy/virginia_fusion/EPIC v. Virginia Department of State Police: Fusion Center Secrecy Bill
Senate Report Finds Fusion Centers "Wasteful," Likely Violate Federal Privacy Laws: A Senate Investigations Committee has released a new report on "State and Local Fusion Centers", government data warehouses that store an enormous amount of information on Americans. The Senate report found that Fusion Centers, operated by the Department of Homeland Security, "often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence" and stored records on U.S. persons, "possibly in violation of the Privacy Act." In 2007, EPIC's "Spotlight on Surveillance" warned that Fusion Centers would lead to "abuse and misuse." In subsequent FOIA cases, and comments to the DHS, EPIC helped document the many problems with the federal Fusion Center program, including lack of oversight and ineffective privacy safeguards. For more information, see EPIC: Information Fusion Centers and Privacy and EPIC: EPIC v. Virginia Department of State Police: Fusion Center Secrecy Bill. (Oct. 3, 2012)
EPIC Prevails in Virginia Fusion Center FOIA Case. Yesterday, Richmond General District Court held that EPIC "substantially prevailed" on the merits of its freedom of information lawsuit against the Virginia State Police. EPIC filed the case after the State Police refused to disclose documents describing the federal government's involvement in efforts to limit Virginia's transparency and privacy laws. Through the litigation, EPIC uncovered a secret contract between the State Police and the FBI that limits the rights of Virginia citizens to learn what information the State Police collect about them. The court's letter opinion requires the State Police to pay EPIC's litigation costs, but not its attorneys' fees. For more information about fusion centers, see EPIC's Fusion Center Page (May 9)
EPIC Obtains Documents Revealing Federal Role In State Fusion Center Secrecy. Pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, EPIC has obtained a Memorandum of Understanding between the FBI and the Virginia State Police that limits the state's open government law. The agreement requires the state agency to comply with federal regulations that restrict the disclosure of public records about the Virginia Fusion Center that would otherwise be available to the public. But many other documents that EPIC is seeking about the fusion center and communications between the State Police and federal agencies have not yet been disclosed. At a hearing today in Richmond, a District Court judge required the State Police to produce all records that EPIC has sought by Monday, April 14. The Virginia Governor is currently considering a bill that would limit the state's open government and privacy laws for the Virginia Fusion Center. (Apr. 9)
EPIC Sues to Compel Disclosure of Documents About Federal Role in Virginia Secrecy Bill. Today, EPIC filed a Virginia Freedom of Information Act lawsuit (pdf) challenging the Virginia State Police's failure to make public documents relating to the role of federal agencies in recent legislative efforts to limit the state's open government and privacy laws for "fusion centers." These intelligence databases collect information on ordinary citizens and have raised substantial privacy concerns. Press reports and statements from Virginia officials have raised questions about federal involvement in the Virginia legislation. The lawsuit follows EPIC's original requests (pdf). (Mar. 21)
Virginia Lawmakers Consider Fusion Center Secrecy Bill as Role of Federal Agencies Remains Unknown. Today the Virginia Senate is considering legislation that would limit the state's open government and privacy laws for "fusion centers." These intelligence databases collect information on ordinary citizens and have raised substantial privacy concerns. Press reports and statements from Virginia officials have also raised questions about federal involvement in the Virginia legislation. EPIC filed Freedom of Information Act requests with two Virginia agencies on February 12, 2008 to determine whether the Dept. of Justice or the Dept. of Homeland Security participated in the development of the legislation. Despite the expiration of the statutory deadline and the pending vote in the Virginia Assembly, the state agencies have not released a single public record in response to EPIC's requests. (Feb. 26)
EPIC Seeks Documents About Federal Role in Effort to Limit Accountability of State "Fusion Centers."EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act request (pdf) with the Virginia State Police today. EPIC's request seeks documents about a plan that would shroud the Virginia Fusion Center, a database that collects detailed information on ordinary citizens, in secrecy. The Virginia legislature is considering a bill that would limit Virginia's open government and privacy statutes, as well as Virginia's common law right of privacy, for Virginia agencies connected to the Fusion Center. Press Groups have criticized the proposed law, and warned that, if passed, Virginia citizens can "say hello to Big Brother." EPIC's FOIA request focuses on the possible role of the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Homeland Security in the development of the Virginia legislation. (Feb. 12)
Background
In January 2008, HB 1007 was introduced before the Virginia General Assembly. The bill exempts the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center (Virginia Fusion Center) - and other Commonwealth agencies assigned to the Virginia Fusion Center - from Virginia privacy and government transparency laws. The bill includes an anti-whistleblower provision and would also prevent the enforcement of privacy rights established by Virginia courts. The Virginia Fusion Center is one of several similar entities established by state governments throughout the United States. HB 1007 was passed by the Virginia Assembly on March 8, 2008, and subsequently signed by the Governor.
HB 1007
HB 1007 adds two sections (Section 52-48 and Section 52-49) to Chapter 11 of the Virginia Code. Section 52-48(A) exempts the Virginia Fusion Center from the government transparency requirements set forth in the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, as well as the privacy provisions set forth in the Virginia Government Data Collections and Disseminations Practices Act. Section 52-48(B) shields Virginia employees connected to the Virginia Fusion Center from subpoena. Sections 52-48(C)-(D) bar individuals from disclosing any information received from the Virginia Fusion Center, and impose criminal penalties for disclosure. Section 52-49 eliminates several long-standing civil rights of action (e.g. defamation and invasion of privacy) for citizens harmed by information provided to the Virginia Fusion Center.
The Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) states that its purpose is to "ensure the people of the Commonwealth ready access to public records in the custody of a public body or its officers and employees, and free entry to meetings of public bodies wherein the business of the people is being conducted." The Virginia FOIA recognizes that "[t]he affairs of government are not intended to be conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy since at all times the public is to be the beneficiary of any action taken at any level of government." The Virginia FOIA sets forth procedures for "ensuring the people of the Commonwealth ready access to public records." By exempting the Virginia Fusion Center from the Virginia FOIA, HB 1007 guarantees that the affairs of the Virginia Fusion Center will be "conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy."
The Virginia Government Data Collections and Disseminations Practices Act recognizes that "[a]n individual's privacy is directly affected by the extensive collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of personal information," "[t]he increasing use of computers and sophisticated information technology has greatly magnified the harm that can occur from these practices," and "[a]n individual's opportunities to secure employment, insurance, credit, and his right to due process, and other legal protections are endangered by the misuse of certain of these personal information systems." Moreover, the statute "preserve[s] the rights guaranteed a citizen in a free society" by "establish[ing] procedures to govern [government] information systems containing records on individuals." The Virginia Government Data Collections and Disseminations Practices Act bars "personal information system[s] whose existence is secret." The statute also prohibits the use of inaccurate information, prohibits the misuse of personal information, prevents "personal information collected for one purpose from being used for another purpose," and provides procedures for citizens to "learn the purpose for which information has been recorded and particulars about its use and dissemination." By exempting the Virginia Fusion Center from the Virginia Government Data Collections and Disseminations Practices Act, HB 1007 removes these statutory privacy protections from personal information collected by the Virginia Fusion Center.
The Virginia Fusion Center
Fusion centers are intelligence databases that collect information on ordinary citizens. They have raised substantial privacy concerns. Federal guidelines call for fusion centers to accumulate and retain information about citizens from a wide range of public and private sources. Such information includes, but is not limited to: financial records, credit reports, medical records, internet and email data, video surveillance from retail stores and sporting facilities, data from preschools, and welfare records. The Virginia Fusion Center's operations involve contact with federal agencies and federal programs. Press reports and statements from Virginia officials have raised questions about federal involvement in the Virginia legislation. Shortly after HB 1007 was introduced, the Virginia Fusion Center's administrative head implied that federal policies might have been the impetus for HB 1007, but did not provide further details. For more information about fusion centers, see EPIC's page: Information Fusion Centers and Privacy.
EPIC's Virginia FOIA Requests and Subsequent Lawsuit
On February 12, 2008, EPIC filed Virginia FOIA requests with the Virginia Department of State Police (the VSP) for public records that directly relate to alleged federal government involvement with HB 1007. EPIC requested the following public records:
all correspondence, communications, and records of meetings between the VSP and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concerning the Virginia Fusion Center, including funding, development, and impact on the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the Virginia Collections and Disseminations Practices Act;all correspondence, communications, and records of meetings between the VSP and the U.S. Department of Justice concerning the Virginia Fusion Center, including funding, development, and impact on the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the Virginia Collections and Disseminations Practices Act; and
all correspondence, communications, and records of meetings between the VSP and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research concerning the Virginia Fusion Center, including funding, development, and impact on the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the Virginia Collections and Disseminations Practices Act.
EPIC urged the VSP to provide the requested public records as soon as possible because of the public records' relevance to the Virginia General Assembly's consideration of (then-pending) HB 1007 - a bill that, if passed, would impact the rights of Virginia residents. On February 19, 2008, the VSP sent a letter to EPIC. The letter acknowledged the VSP's receipt of EPIC's public records requests, and further stated that the VSP would not disclose any public records in response. On March 21, 2008, EPIC filed a lawsuit under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act challenging the VSP's failure to disclose public records and failure to comply with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
Documents Obtained by EPIC Through Its Lawsuit
On April 7, 2008, EPIC obtained documents from the VSP as a result of EPIC's ongoing lawsuit. But many other documents sought by EPIC were not disclosed. The disclosed documents include a Memorandum of Understanding between the FBI and the VSP that limits Virginia's open government and privacy laws. The agreement requires the VSP to comply with federal regulations (28 CFR Part 16) that restrict the disclosure of public records about the Virginia Fusion Center that would otherwise be available to the public. The federal regulations contain at least thirty-seven exemptions from open government and privacy laws. The Memorandum also requires the VSP to refer open government requests to federal agents if the requests relate to information shared by the FBI with the VSP. EPIC also obtained documents that indicate that the federal government requires the VSP to implement a fusion center privacy policy that is consistent with federal guidelines. Such guidelines may impact privacy rights granted by the Virginia Government Data Collections and Disseminations Practices Act.
Legal Documents
EPIC v. the Virginia Department of State Police, et al., Case No. 08-01357 (Va. Gen. Dist. Ct. filed March 12, 2008)
EPIC's Complaint Against the Virginia State Police (pdf)
Freedom of Information Act Documents
EPIC's Request for Public Records under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (pdf)
News Items
FBI nudges state 'fusion centers' into the shadows, Declan McCullagh, Cnet.com, April 10, 2008
Centers Tap Into Personal Databases, Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, April 2, 2008
States Have Access To Info About Millions, Including Secret Files, K.C. Jones, Information Week, April 2, 2008
Fusion Center meltdown: Feds stifling open government in VA?, Jon Stokes, Ars Technica, March 24, 2008
Va. Domestic Intelligence Center Sued for Info, Ryan Singel, Wired, March 24, 2008
Are feds involved in bid to undo state open govt law?, Richard Koman, ZDNet, March 24, 2008
Impact of intelligence unit secrecy limited by committee, Chelyen Davis, The Free Lance-Star, February 29, 2008
Changes to bill limit Fusion Center's exemptions to subpoena, Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, February 27, 2008
Editorial: Oversight required on intelligence unit, The Virginian-Pilot, February 25, 2008
Secrecy bill for state anti-terror agency has some crying foul, Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, February 18, 2008
Bill would keep intel center data secret, Chelyen Davis, The Free Lance-Star, February 2, 2008
Governor Warner Dedicates New State Police Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center, Office of the Governor of Virginia, Oct. 14, 2005
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CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape
By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011
Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.
A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."
And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.
These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... index.htmlRead the FBI documents obtained by CNN
-- An employee had "a sexual relationship with a source" over seven months. The punishment was a 40-day suspension.
-- The supervisor who viewed "pornographic movies in the office while sexually satisfying himself" during work hours received a 35-day suspension.
-- The employee in a "leadership position" who misused a "government database to conduct name checks on two friends who were foreign nationals employed as exotic dancers" and "brought the two friends into FBI space after-hours without proper authorization" received a 23-day suspension. The same employee had been previously suspended for misusing a government database.
-- An employee who was drunk "exploited his FBI employment at a strip club," falsely claiming he was "conducting an official investigation." His punishment was a 30-day suspension.
-- And an employee conducted "unauthorized searches on FBI databases" for "information on public celebrities the employee thought were 'hot'" received a 30-day suspension.
Child Porn Probe Leads To FBI Headquarters
Target claims inquiry is just a “misunderstanding”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... adquartersJANUARY 5 2011--The government’s pursuit of suspects trafficking in child pornography recently led federal agents to a familiar address--the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, where a bureau official is the subject of an ongoing criminal probe, The Smoking Gun has learned.
The investigation by the Department of Justice’s inspector general is focusing on FBI employee Joseph Bonsuk’s receipt of nearly 80 illicit images that were e-mailed to him by an Illinois sex offender whose rap sheet includes felony convictions for bank robbery and solicitation of a minor.
Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against former Scout leader
January 3, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. --Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges against a retired FBI agent who was indicted on child sex charges dating back more than a decade when he was a Boy Scout leader, in response to the death of his accuser.
William Hutton, 63, of Killingworth, was arrested in February on charges he enticed a member of his Scout troop to Maine for the purpose of sexual activity in 1994 and 1995.
http://www.headwatersproductions.com/pr ... icle5.htmlEdward Rodgers was in charge of investigating cases of Child Abuse at the FBI
THE DENVER POST - Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for years of abuse
By Howard Prankratz
Denver Post Legal Affairs Writer
Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father.
The award to Sharon Simone, 45, and Susan Hammond, 44, followed testimony of Rodgers’ four daughters in person or through depositions, describing repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults by their father from 1944 through 1965.
Rodgers, 72, who became a child abuse expert after retiring from the FBI and joining the colorado Springs DA’s office, failed to appear for the trial. But in a deposition taken in March, Rodgers denied ever hitting or sexually abusing his children.
http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/FormerL ... ntArrestedLocal attorney arrested
On child indecency accusations
Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009
MOBILE, Ala. - Mobile Police arrested 52-year-old Phillip Kent Baxley on child indecency charges. Baxley is a local attorney in Mobile, but he's also a former coach and acting president for the Mobile Soccer Club.
"I'm surprised to hear it," said Mobile Soccer Club Director, Mohammed Elzare. "He's a former FBI agent and attorney. So we're definitely saddened to hear this."
Baxley was arrested at his Dauphin Street office on a fugitive felony warrant out of Harris County, Texas.
Texas police officers say Baxley was involved in an incident with a nine-year-old girl in 2004.
Investigators say it happened at a family member's house in a Houston suburb, but the girl waited some time before saying anything.
"When the victim, the nine-year-old made the outcry she was interviewed in another county and all of the information was forwarded to us and the investigation went from there," said Lt. Wade Conner with the Deer Park, Texas Police Department.
Mobile Soccer Club Board Members say they were blind-sided by the news on Monday. For now, the board likely plans to distance itself from Baxley.
"Stopping ties until this situation is resolved and hopefully it comes out to a good outcome," said Elzare.
But Texas investigators are confident the charges will stick, despite Baxley's background. "If they're a pedophile then we deal with them all the same," said Wade. "It doesn't matter what they do for a living."
Baxley is locked up in the Mobile County Jail. That's where he'll stay until he's extradited to Texas.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill ... -searches/11/30/2012
An FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn Searches
Thanks to spyware, an FBI dad got a gift-wrapped child porn case
Like any dad, Joseph Auther was worried about what his son might get up to while exploring the wilds of the World Wide Web. So when his 7th grade son got a school-provided laptop from Whispering Palms School in Saipan in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, Auther decided to install a monitoring program on it. He went with a spyware program called eBlaster from SpectorSoft, a company based in Vero Beach, Florida. Unbeknownst to his son, the program captured his website visits, his keystrokes, and every email, chat, and instant message he sent and received. This was all delivered up to his dad in emails, while giving the monitored person no hint that it was doing so.
Auther has a special appreciation for the benefits of a surveillance. He’s an FBI special agent. In April, he discovered he was being transferred to the FBI office in Denver. At the end of the school year, Auther let Whispering Palms principal Thomas Weindl know that his family was moving and that they would be returning the school’s laptop. Weindl, 67, was actually a friend of the Auther family; when he got married earlier that year, Auther’s wife gave a reading at the ceremony. Auther told Weindl that he would return the laptop after he removed all of his son’s files, programs and games.
Auther first took the laptop to his FBI office and asked his colleagues how to wipe it clean. Apparently they don’t have many cyber experts in the Mariana Islands, because they were unsuccessful. So Auther had to instead take it to a computer repair shop, which cleaned out the old files and allegedly reimaged the hard drive to return it to its original settings. Auther didn’t tell the shop about eBlaster being on the computer — perhaps feeling a little Big Parent shame — but assumed that it would be wiped along with everything else. He then returned the computer to Weindl.
A week later, Auther was surprised to get an email from eBlaster which had survived the attempts to kill it. SpectorSoft claims that eBlaster is as easy to remove as any other program, such as Microsoft Word, though the company wouldn’t comment on this case or elaborate on exactly how to remove it. I consulted computer geek friends who suggested that a re-imaging should have removed it, but that the computer repair shop may not have done a good job of it.
The eBlaster report revealed that someone was using the computer again and that the person was much naughtier than Auther’s son had been. The report revealed Internet searches for child pornography and visits to sexually explicit websites, including a few that featured young Asian girls having sex with older men.
FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse
Tuesday February 17, 2004 11:46 PM
By JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press Writer
https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forum ... 1077052156WASHINGTON (AP) - The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
Monday August 8, 2005 Longtime FBI agent sentenced to prison on child porn count
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http://www.policeone.com/news/113935-Lo ... hild-Porn/By JOHN MILLER
Associated Press Writer
BOISE, Idaho (AP) A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest mountain-man Claude Dallas and was involved in a deadly 1984 siege involving white supremacists in Washington state is going to prison for 12 months after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.
William Buie, 64, of Boise, most recently worked as an investigator for the Idaho attorney general's office.
February 22, 2007
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007 ... 007/262383SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. A F.B.I. analyst has been sentenced to seven years in prison for having sex with a young girl in Spotsylvania County.
Forty-four-year-old Anthony John Lesko entered an Alford plea yesterday in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child. An Alford plea means Lesko doesn't admit guilt but believes there is enough evidence for a conviction.
Authorities say Lesko engaged in a sex act with her nine times, beginning when she was nine years old.
According to the plea, Lesko said he was a victim in the case. He said the girl initiated the contact.
FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... _pris.htmlMay 25, 2007
FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
Posted by, Marissa Pasquet KOLD News 13 News Editor
FBI Special Agent Ryan Seese, 34, is facing sex offense charges after a cleaning woman said she found him masturbating in a women's lavatory on campus, according to a University of Arizona police spokesman.
FBI Workers Suspected of Secretly Taping Teens in Dressing Room
April 20, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517222,00.htmlTwo FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.
The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy. They were working in an FBI satellite control room at the mall when they positioned a camera on temporary changing rooms and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes on girls dressing for the Cinderella Project fashion show, Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson said Monday.
Former top FBI agent charged with child porn distribution
By Bill Mears, CNN
May 15, 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/justice/e ... index.html(CNN) -- A former supervisory FBI agent has been arrested and jailed on child pornography charges.
Donald Sachtleben was taken into custody and charged Monday after a nationwide undercover investigation of illegal child porn images traded over the Internet.
A federal complaint alleges 30 graphic images and video were found on Sachtleben's laptop computer late last week when FBI agents searched his home, about 23 miles north of Indianapolis.
Sachtleben is currently an Oklahoma State University visiting professor, according to his online resume. He is director of training at the school's Center for Improvised Explosives, but all references to his work have now been removed from the university's website. There was no indication from the school as to whether it had suspended him. Calls to the university and his Indianapolis attorneys were not immediately returned.
He had been an FBI special agent from 1983 to 2008, serving as a bomb technician. He worked on the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber investigations, according to his university biography.
A separate LinkedIn profile filled out by Sachtleben says he is an "accomplished investigator with more than 25 years of experience in FBI major case management, counter terrorism investigations, bombing prevention, post blast investigations and public speaking."
FBI agent arrested on child sexual assault charge
Associated Press - January 15, 2008 6:14 PM ET
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7978377PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - An FBI agent is under arrest in Pueblo for investigation of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust.
Authorities say 53-year-old David Allan Johnson is being held in the Pueblo County jail today on a $100,000 bail.
Former Great Falls FBI agent sentenced on child sex charges
Jan 23, 2008
A man from Great Falls who's accused of sexually assaulting five underage girls will be spending the next 10 years behind bars.
Stanley Perkins, 64, changed his plea to guilty after police began investigating him for child molestation in August 2006.
The former educator, who also served two years as an FBI agent, was sentenced on one count of felony sexual assault.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime- ... ormer.htmlJail for former FBI worker from Va.
Washington Post Editors
A 65-year-old former FBI employee from Prince William County was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Friday for possessing child pornography.
Samuel I. Kaplan, of Gainesville, who pleaded guilty June 2 in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, was sentenced to 46 months behind bars.
Kaplan was an information technology program manager at an FBI facility in Chantilly when authorities discovered that he had used the FBI's computer network to "facilitate sexually explict communications," the Justice Department said.
Investigators said they later found 10 to 20 images on Kaplan's home computer showing juveniles involved in sex acts.
Ex-FBI agent gets 2 1/2 years for assault on marshal
A federal judge today sentenced retired FBI special agent Gary L. John
to 2 ½ years in prison for assaulting a U.S. marshal trying to place him
under arrest.
John, formerly of 110 Post Rd., Westerly, had been on the lam for two
months, when U.S. marshals working with Rhode Island Sheriffs
Department, tracked him to Stratford, Conn., in December 2005. He was
wanted in Rhode Island at the time for allegedly violating orders
barring him from contacting his ex-wife and for failing to appear in
court.
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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-0 ... -fbi-agentFBI agent convicted of daughters' abuse
July 11, 1993|By Traci A. Johnson | Traci A. Johnson,Staff Writer
An FBI agent who lives in Carroll County has been convicted of sexually abusing his daughters over a 14-year period.
The agent, as part of an agreement with prosecutors, pleaded guilty Friday before Circuit Judge Francis M. Arnold to two counts of second-degree sexual offense and two counts of child abuse.
The agent's name is being withheld to protect the privacy of the victims.
In exchange for the agent's plea, the state dropped 18 other counts against him, ordered a presentence investigation and agreed to let him remain free on $125,000 bond pending sentencing Sept. 10.
The agent was suspended from the FBI's Baltimore field office when he was arrested in December.
The original indictment also charged the man with fondling his oldest daughter's friend several years ago when the girl had slept over at the agent's home.
An investigation began after one of the man's daughters told a county child-abuse investigator of at least five incidents of molestation from 1980 to 1987, court documents said.
The victims said their father performed sexual acts ranging from fondling to intercourse beginning when each was preschool age. The abuse lasted until the girls were in their early teens, said Assistant State's Attorney Kathi Hill in a statement of facts presented in court.
In February, defense attorney John E. Harris Sr. tried unsuccessfully to have the case moved out of Carroll on the grounds that pretrial publicity had damaged the defendant's chance for a fair trial.
Ms. Hill said the state will recommend a sentence of 35 years in state prison, with 15 years suspended.
Although Ms. Hill said she once argued that the agent should be incarcerated until his trial, she said Friday she was not worried about whether he will return for his sentencing.
"Even if he'd take a walk, when he eventually comes back he wouldn't have to be tried again. He'd just be sentenced," Ms. Hill said. "There's not so much fear on our part, because we don't have to prove the case again."
The state will ask the court, as part of the agent's sentence, to impose five years of supervised probation and order him to have no contact with females under 18 and to undergo psychological therapy.
Judge Arnold also accepted a plea agreement Friday in which a Mount Airy hairdresser admitted sexually abusing a teen-age boy he befriended in 1990.
David Curtis Flynn of Grimes Court in Mount Airy was immediately sentenced to four years in prison for a second-degree sexual offense.
From January 1991 to November 1992, Flynn had a sexual relationship with the boy, whose family knew and trusted the man, according to a statement of facts that Ms. Hill read in court.
The victim told authorities that Flynn talked to him before the incidents, saying he had been abused as a child, Ms. Hill said.
"I am deeply sorry . . . in my soul," Flynn said. "None of my attentions were meant as wrongdoing. I showed [the victim] the kind of love and affection I was brought up with. I'm deeply sorry for upsetting his childhood."
Judge Arnold sentenced Flynn to 10 years in state prison, then suspended six years of the term.
The judge also ordered five years of supervised probation for the defendant after the prison term and ordered him to participate in all recommended treatment programs.
Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing
Government shrouds details of why top child porn prober got canned
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... nts-firing Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing
AUGUST 20--The lead FBI investigator on several of the government's highest profile child porn prosecutions has recently been fired in connection with her work on those cases, though details of why the agent was terminated have been sealed by a federal judge.
The canning of Monique Winkis, 40, was just disclosed by federal prosecutors to a Tennessee defense lawyer who represents Timothy Richards, who was convicted in a case in which Winkis was the lead FBI agent. In an August 8 U.S. District Court filing, defense lawyer Kimberly Hodde stated that prosecutors had informed her that Winkis was canned due to her 'conduct in the investigation of cases related to Defendant Richards' prosecution.'
Specific details of Winkis's firing are contained in a court filing made by Department of Justice officials, a submission that was ordered sealed last week by Judge Aleta Trauger. In her court filing, Hodde argues that Richards, pictured at left, is entitled to details about the Winkis firing since the ex-prober was the FBI case agent assigned to his prosecution.
The Winkis firing was apparently first disclosed by government lawyers during a late-June status conference, at which Trauger set dates for court pleadings 're: FBI Wincus,' according to a court filing. Winkis did not respond to a detailed message left with her mother, and the federal prosecutor handling the Richards case did not return a message left at her office. An FBI spokesperson declined comment, noting that the agency is prohibited from discussing personnel matters.
According to court records, Winkis worked for the FBI for about 13 years, most recently from the bureau's Washington, D.C. headquarters where she was a supervisor in the Innocent Images Unit. In that capacity, Winkis developed cases based on information provided by Justin Berry, who began operating an X-rated Webcam business while still a teenager. Berry's cooperation was, in large part, arranged in late-2005 by Kurt Eichenwald, then a New York Times reporter investigating online child porn businesses.
According to a December 2005 Eichenwald story, the Times 'persuaded Justin to abandon his business and, to protect other children at risk, assisted him in contacting the Justice Department.' That Times report also quoted Winkis commenting on the breadth of potential targets identified as a result of Berry's cooperation and how 'hundreds of other kids that we are not aware of yet' could be saved from sexual abuse and exploitation.
EX-FBI AGENT JOHN LANDS IN JAIL - AGAIN
By Ryan McBride - The Sun Staff
WAKEFIELD - A former FBI agent from Westerly has returned to prison
after a series of recent arrests for violating a court order to stay
away from his ex-wife.
John served 15 months at the ACI for a criminal conviction of violating a
restraining order in March 2002. His suspended sentence and probation
from the conviction end in 2012.
According to court records, state police arrested John in February 2002
on a disorderly conduct charge for exposing himself in public.
Calif. FBI agent accused of paying for prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wire ... fbi-agent/GREG RISLING | September 24, 2012
LOS ANGELES — An undercover FBI agent has been accused in court documents of spending U.S. taxpayer dollars on prostitutes in the Philippines for himself and others during an international weapons trafficking probe last year.
Deputy Federal Public Defender John Littrell filed a motion last week asking a judge to toss an indictment against his client, Sergio Santiago Syjuco, for "outrageous government misconduct." Syjuco, 25, and two other Philippine nationals have been charged with conspiracy and face up to 20 years in prison.
The agent, who wasn't identified in court documents, paid up to $2,400 each time he went to brothels with Syjuco and others to reward them for their work to secure weapons to ship to the U.S. without a license, court documents show.
"I have never seen anything like this during my career as a criminal defense lawyer," Littrell told The Associated Press on Monday. "I hope that the Department of Justice takes these allegations seriously, does a complete investigation, and ensures that whoever authorized this outrageous misconduct is held accountable."
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller declined comment Monday, but federal prosecutors acknowledged in court documents that the agent sought nearly $15,000 in reimbursements for "entertainment" and other expenses related to the investigation. The prosecutors said they don't have any receipts from the clubs, but two of them listed in the filing, "Air Force One" and "Area 51," are suspected brothels.
No charges have been filed against the agent.
Syjuco, Cesar Ubaldo and Arjyl Revereza, a Philippines customs official, were charged earlier this year with violating arms import laws by selling a grenade launcher, a mortar launcher and other weapons to the undercover agent who said he was interested in buying high-powered weapons that could be used by drug cartels in the U.S. and Mexico.
The case was part of a federal investigation of Asian organized crime groups involved in the illicit trafficking of firearms.
The weapons were eventually loaded onto a ship that arrived at the Port of Long Beach in June 2011 and the items were seized by authorities.
Littrell argues that the agent – and none of the three defendants – arranged importing the weapons to the U.S. He also questioned why the weapons were first shipped from the Philippines to China, where it wasn't known whether officials there checked the container, before arriving in the U.S.
Littrell and an investigator recently visited the Philippines and interviewed several people who claim the agent, using an alias "Richard Han," paid for himself and others to have sex with prostitutes. Alex Escosio, who worked at Area 51, told defense attorneys that Han "always paid for everything, including alcohol, private rooms, food and girls for the entire group of people he brought in," court documents show.
"Although the government represents that these expenditures were for `entertainment and cocktail (tips included),' it is impossible that the agent could not have known that they money went toward prostitutes," Littrell wrote in court documents.
Area 51 was raided in May by Philippine authorities where 60 victims of sex trafficking were rescued, some of whom were underage girls, Littrell said. At least seven people were arrested.
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http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/12/ke ... 82698.htmlKeith Dietterle, FBI analyst, accused of distributing child pornography
By Jennifer Donelan
December 3, 2012 - 05:37 pm
An FBI analyst has been accused of distributing child pornography in a disturbing case that's left his neighbors wanting answers.
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A task force made up of FBI agents and D.C. police officers busted Keith Dietterle. The 28-year-old will appear for a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Dietterle is accused of sending child pornography to another man he met in a chat room frequented by individuals who have a sexual interest children. But the person Dietterle was allegedly speaking with was a D.C. police detective.
According to court documents, agents say Dietterle thought he was communicating with a man who claimed to be sexually abusing a 3-year-old nephew and 12-year-old daughter. The detective wrote he and Dietterle discussed a possible meeting with the "children" for sex. Over a two week period, Dietterle sent three images via Yahoo instant messenger depicting child pornography, court documents state.
Dietterle is accused of later sending multiple links, including a 13-minute video, images and six separate videos of underage children all being sexually abused.
