Monday, August 24, 2015

NASA Employees Caught Buying Child Porn, Never Prosecuted

The Daily Mail learned through a public records request that federal authorities learned in 2010 the identity of 16 NASA employees who had purchased child pornography through Internet websites based in Belarus and the Ukraine. The NASA employees were among more than 5,000 Americans ensnared in Project Flicker, a joint investigation of the FBI and ICE launched in 2007 to track and prosecute those responsible for flooding the U.S. with child pornography.

NASA redacted the names of those employees implicated in the investigation, making it impossible to discern whether the persons are still working for the government. What is known is that none of the employees were prosecuted. In 2010 it was revealed that 264 employees working at the Pentagon were identified as purchasing child pornography. Some of those employees worked in national security and had top level security clearances. The Defense Criminal Investigative Service only investigated 52 of the identified Pentagon workers. At the end of the probe, only ten Pentagon employees were charged with buying or viewing child pornography. The DCIS complained it lacked adequate resources to investigate all of the employees.


2 comments:

Josh said...

Wich reminds me of...

"Middle-aged men having sex with 12- to 15-year-olds was too much for Ben
Johnston, a hulking 6-foot-5-inch Texan, and more than a year ago he blew
the whistle on his employer, DynCorp, a U.S. contracting company doing
business in Bosnia.

According to the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) lawsuit filed in Texas on behalf of the former DynCorp aircraft mechanic, "in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorpwere engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally
buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees
would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they
had purchased."

Rather than acknowledge and reward Johnston's effort to get this behavior
stopped, DynCorp fired him, forcing him into protective custody by the U.S.
Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) until the investigators could get him safely out of Kosovo and returned to the United States. That departure from the war-torn country was a far cry from what Johnston imagined a year earlier when he arrived in Bosnia to begin a three-year U.S. Air Force contract with DynCorp as an aircraft-maintenance technician for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters."
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11119

Marycatherine Barton said...

This is such a horrifying news story, that Americans need to know. Thanks, Gary.