CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children. They Weren’t Prosecuted.

[mountaineer]

CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children. They Weren’t Prosecuted.
Declassified CIA inspector general reports show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable.
Jason Leopold BuzzFeed News Reporter
Anthony Cormier BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on December 1, 2021, at 4:25 p.m. ET

Over the past 14 years, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children.

Though most of these cases were referred to US attorneys for prosecution, only one of the individuals was ever charged with a crime. Prosecutors sent the rest of the cases back to the CIA to handle internally, meaning few faced any consequences beyond the possible loss of their jobs and security clearances. That marks a striking deviation from how sex crimes involving children have been handled at other federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Administration. CIA insiders say the agency resists prosecution of its staff for fear the cases will reveal state secrets.

The revelations are contained in hundreds of internal agency reports obtained by BuzzFeed News through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.

One employee had sexual contact with a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old. He was fired. A second employee purchased three sexually explicit videos of young girls, filmed by their mothers. He resigned. A third employee estimated that he had viewed up to 1,400 sexually abusive images of children while on agency assignments. The records do not say what action, if any, the CIA took against him. A contractor who arranged for sex with an undercover FBI agent posing as a child had his contract revoked.

Only one of the individuals cited in these documents was charged with a crime. In that case, as in the only previously known case of a CIA staffer being charged with child sexual crimes, the employee was also under investigation for mishandling classified material. ...

Story at BuzzFeed

[mountaineer]

Twitter thread (take out space before twitter): https:// twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1466158877486071816

[Kamaji]

[mystery-ak]

CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children. They Weren’t Prosecuted.

Declassified CIA inspector general reports show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable.
 Jason Leopold BuzzFeed News Reporter
 Anthony Cormier BuzzFeed News Reporter

Posted on December 1, 2021, at 4:25 p.m. ET

Over the past 14 years, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children.

Though most of these cases were referred to US attorneys for prosecution, only one of the individuals was ever charged with a crime. Prosecutors sent the rest of the cases back to the CIA to handle internally, meaning few faced any consequences beyond the possible loss of their jobs and security clearances. That marks a striking deviation from how sex crimes involving children have been handled at other federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Administration. CIA insiders say the agency resists prosecution of its staff for fear the cases will reveal state secrets.

The revelations are contained in hundreds of internal agency reports obtained by BuzzFeed News through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.

One employee had sexual contact with a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old. He was fired. A second employee purchased three sexually explicit videos of young girls, filmed by their mothers. He resigned. A third employee estimated that he had viewed up to 1,400 sexually abusive images of children while on agency assignments. The records do not say what action, if any, the CIA took against him. A contractor who arranged for sex with an undercover FBI agent posing as a child had his contract revoked.

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia

[SZonian]

"... the agency resists prosecution of its staff for fear the cases will reveal state secrets."
There's a very simple way to avoid that...

[mountaineer]

Don't hold your breath waiting for any member of Congress to call for an investigation. This story is a week old, and bupkes. Apparently they - and this administration - don't care much about abused children.

An Open Secret
@AnOpenSecret
Did you know?
Biden Administration has proposed rolling back a Trump-era effort to collect data on teacher-on-student child sex abuse
Office for Civil Rights in Dept of Education will no longer ask school districts questions about teacher-on-student sexual assault allegations


Dept of Education won't ask school officials to report:
-allegations that resulted in the resignation or retirement of the accused
-pending cases
-cases in which a school staffer was reassigned to another district school prior to the conclusion of an investigation.


"Data suggesting systemic nonchalance about child sexual abuse in public schools would be quite politically inconvenient for teachers' unions.
Now the data won't be collected."

That's what we get with a pedophile president, I guess.

[libertybele]

Shameful.  I feel guilty for praying and asking the Lord to save this country.

[LegalAmerican]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGwKCb3g4M

[Smokin Joe]

I can't watch the video where I am working, but here goes. The logic behind protecting them is that most cultures find the practice abhorrent (and rightfully so). With that leverage in hand, well-placed pedos can be controlled by the threat of releasing that information.

[LegalAmerican]

I can't watch the video where I am working, but here goes. The logic behind protecting them is that most cultures find the practice abhorrent (and rightfully so). With that leverage in hand, well-placed pedos can be controlled by the threat of releasing that information.

 

[mountaineer]

Still crickets.

m𝑒ʳʳ𝕪 𝕔hi𝓁𝓁mᵃ𝐬  @chiIIum
IT’S BEEN 10 DAYS since the story broke about the CIA covering up for its agents admitting sex crimes upon children, and not a single member of Congress has called for an investigation.
Big media is silent.
Why is that?
5:23 PM · Dec 11, 2021

𝓛𝓸𝓵𝓪   @DroppedmicAgain
Replying to @chiIIum
This is the scariest part.
Can't prosecute because it will "reveal state secrets."
WHAT THE F*** DOES THAT MEAN!?!

5:26 PM · Dec 11, 2021

[sneakypete]

Nobody is going to like this,but the sad,sad fact is that the CIA only exists to deal with evil people because those are the people who are a threat to the US,as well as worldwide peace.

Sometimes you HAVE to deal with the Devil for the greater good.

BTW,I am NOT trying to claim that this is true in all cases,or that CIA field officers are as pure as the driven snow.  They CAN'T be because they have to deal with and make deals with evil people.

After all,the goal is to turn officials and leaders of foreign nations into US assets,and the usual tool for this is a combination of blackmail and under the counter cash payoffs.

It is an evil,evil world out there,and they ain't dealing with Saints.

Kinda like dealing with the US Congress.

[LegalAmerican]

Nobody is going to like this,but the sad,sad fact is that the CIA only exists to deal with evil people because those are the people who are a threat to the US,as well as worldwide peace.

Sometimes you HAVE to deal with the Devil for the greater good.

BTW,I am NOT trying to claim that this is true in all cases,or that CIA field officers are as pure as the driven snow.  They CAN'T be because they have to deal with and make deals with evil people.

After all,the goal is to turn officials and leaders of foreign nations into US assets,and the usual tool for this is a combination of blackmail and under the counter cash payoffs.

It is an evil,evil world out there,and they ain't dealing with Saints.

Kinda like dealing with the US Congress.

Good points.