DHS Official Caught in Underage Sex Sting Blabbed Job, Security Info

"When the story of Homeland Security official Brian J. Doyle broke, we warned that he and other DHS officials with predilections for sex crimes are incredibly vulnerable to terrorist blackmail. We said it would be a great plot device for next season's "24" (Attention, Joel Surnow). Well, it is even more like "24" than we thought. Today's Tampa Trib has more details on frightening antics of Doyle, who solicited what he thought was a 14-year-old girl on the Net (it was actually a Polk County, FL Deputy Sheriff)," says Debbie Schlussel. "Doyle's job-related conversations with the fictional girl are 'careless,' but do not have national security ramifications because he did not divulge operational techniques, said Larry Johnson, a former CIA employee who also worked at the U.S. State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism. Even so, Johnson noted, 'It is remarkable he'd be that open and forward with a 14-year-old girl about these things,'" the Tampa Tribune writes.

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