Current Events > CIA staffers committed sex crimes against children, weren't prosecuted

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

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.

The CIA did not answer detailed questions, saying only that the agency takes all allegations of possible criminal misconduct committed by personnel seriously.

A spokesperson for the Eastern District of Virginia, where many of the criminal referrals were sent, also did not answer detailed questions, saying the district takes seriously its responsibility to hold accountable federal government employees who violate federal law within our jurisdiction.

Four former officials who are familiar with how internal investigations work at intelligence agencies told BuzzFeed News there are many reasons that prosecutors might not pursue a criminal case. One of them, familiar with the workings of the CIAs Office of the Inspector General, said the agency is concerned that in a criminal case, it could lose control of sensitive information.

The former official, who reviewed the declassified inspector general reports, characterized the concern from CIA lawyers as, We cant have these people testify, they may inadvertently be forced to disclose sources and methods.

The official, who noted the agency has had a problem with child abuse images stretching back decades, said they understand the need to protect sensitive and classified equities. However, for crimes of a certain class whether its an intelligence agency or not, you just have to figure out how to prosecute these people.

Sexual crimes involving children, including the viewing of images of abuse, have been uncovered at other agencies that handle sensitive information. In a November 2009 report, the Department of Defense acknowledged that dozens of Pentagon staff members or contractors had such images. In 2014, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community found that two officials from the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees Americas spy satellites, acknowledged viewing images of child sexual abuse during polygraph examinations.

At a symposium in 2016, Daniel Payne, a top Pentagon security official, said that when workers computers were examined, the amount of child porn I see is just unbelievable.

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Everybody knows the CIA is scum

CIA getting away with crimes, what else is new

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If I knew someone worked in some part with the CIA I'd quietly cut all contact with them. The most dangerous human beings possible

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fuckin yikes

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Wonder what Broseph_Stalin has to say about this

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Wonder what Broseph_Stalin has to say about this

tag him

Rayman2943 posted...

tag him

Can't; he blocked me lmao

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Jfc

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Rayman2943 posted...

tag him

Why? What good would that do?

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of course all the white dude liberals that claim we need to stay in afghanistan the US cares about human rights of foreigners will ignore this

Antifar posted...

Why? What good would that do?

The only purpose of that alt is to start drama. Hes also one of the fake leftists who thinks 1/6 was nbd and only american rightwing warmongers care about it while they invade other countries

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boy that's not what I said at all.

I said it was bad, but the people who complain about it the loudest are the warmongers because when t hey talk about PROMOTING DEMOCRACY it looks hollow. well more hollow than it originally was.

Hard to charge anyone in the cia when you cant find out real names

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Wonder what Broseph_Stalin has to say about this

@Broseph_Stalin thoughts?

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"I wonder what some guy I hate thinks" is the most baffling response to this topic. He's gonna say some shit you'll hate! That's what he does!

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Intro2Logic posted...

"I wonder what some guy I hate thinks" is the most baffling response to this topic. He's gonna say some shit you'll hate! That's what he does!

Yeah but sometimes it's entertaining

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Yeah but sometimes it's entertaining

Which is why I tagged. Let's see the show

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Some of you have a very unhealthy obsession with me.

And rayman is kanjo's latest alt btw don't bother responding to him he'll be banned shortly.

Intro2Logic posted...

"I wonder what some guy I hate thinks" is the most baffling response to this topic. He's gonna say some shit you'll hate! That's what he does!

It's because they would rather shit up a topic than discuss whatever is being discussed.
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Seems bad.

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