Pentagon re-opens probe into hundreds of employees suspected of child porn

[unhappycamper]

Pentagon re-opens probe into hundreds of employees suspected of child porn
By Daniel Tencer
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 -- 9:44 pm

Under pressure after a series of news reports, the Pentagon has re-opened investigations into 264 employees suspected of purchasing child pornography.

An official from the Defense Criminal Investigative Service told John Cook at The Upshot the Pentagon plans to take action against every employee or contractor identified in a four-year-old investigation into individuals who used their credit cards or PayPal to buy child porn from a foreign Web site.

In July, Raw Story reported on claims that the Pentagon had failed to investigate dozens of employees identified as possibly having purchased child pornography.

In an investigative report earlier this month, The Upshot found that a 2006 investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as Project Flicker, resulted in 264 Pentagon employees and contractors being identified as potentially involved in buying sexual images of children.

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Suspects "included staffers for the secretary of defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," The Upshot reported.

[Divernan]

1. That number includes federal CONTRACTORS too.

The dirty laundry I want details for are the identities of the contractors - and the reaction I want to see is firing each individual employee identified and criminal prosecution thereof.