[attrition] Bad week for government officials..

[security curmudgeon]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040401973.html

The deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security was 
arrested last night on charges that he used the Internet to seduce an 
undercover Florida sheriff's detective who he thought was a 14-year-old 
girl, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

Brian J. Doyle, 55, was arrested at his Silver Spring home at 7:45 p.m. 
and charged with seven counts of using a computer to seduce a child and 16 
counts of transmitting harmful materials to a minor, according to a 
sheriff's office statement.

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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40341-1.html

A high-ranking Defense Department IT official has been arrested and 
indicted on child pornography charges.

Charles Lynch, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency's 
Internet Protocol version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and 
indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia 
the next day on one count of possessing child pornography.

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