DHS arrest launches congressional probe

When the Department of Homeland Security was being formed, the most important issue before Congress was the pay scale and ability of the employees to be fired easily. I guess by definition to the Congressional government workers, all other government workers are goldbrickers who collect pay checks for doing nothing while defying citizens to fire them. It's no wonder that DHS is so screwed up.

I'll take the job!

Now if the person responsible for hiring Brian Doyle is Michael Chertoff, and the person responsible for hiring Chertoff is Bush. That would mean, Bush and his Administration are responsible for this potently disastrous situation. How many stupid mistakes does Bush have to make in order to impeach him? Are we waiting for another attack? Or maybe just November?
If everyone in the country that is as disgusted with the political situation as I am, would make sure they voted in this coming election? Just maybe we could restore the checks and balances to our government that we so badly need.

The people are responsible for putting this idiot in office and the people are responsible for getting him out. Preferrably *before* Bush is allowed to start a full-scale nuclear war? Please...?

"If everyone in the country that is as disgusted with the political situation as I am, would make sure they voted in this coming election? Just maybe we could restore the checks and balances to our government that we so badly need. "

Just like in 2004?

HA HA

Mr. Doyle allegedly worked for Time Magazine for over 25 years as a writer. The real question that should be investigated is, "Why would Homeland Security hire a reporter from Time Magazine?"

Rory M.,

As desperate as I am to get this cowboy out of office, waiting until November (actually, January when the newbies take office) is the only sane alternative right now. Impeachment and trial proceedings would go nowhere in the Republican controlled House and Senate. Besides, look at the next three in line: Cheney, Hastert, Frist. Not a choice in the lot. Maybe after November we can impeach Bush and Cheney both and find decent alternatives for the next two.

Very uncharacteristic for me, I'm going to say something positive about a Republican in Bush's administration who's attached to the DHS. You may want to sit down before you read any further.

Okay, I don't like that there was yet another case of "whowhatwherewhathuh?????" here, and it absolutely nauseates me to have to even think about a predator out there menacing children. If Doyle's guilty, I hope the piece of filth rots in the bowels of hell where he belongs. That's out of the way first.

The positive stuff: Peter King actually acknowledged that there's a problem. He went as far as to note that the breach had potential for problems reaching far beyond the obvious -- what, indeed, if the information had been used by third parties, of ANY kind, to blackmail Doyle? -- and actually SAID SO IN PLAIN ENGLISH! He didn't hide behind what Bush might want to hear and avoid rocking the boat. He spoke the simple, obvious truth. That's the first thing in -- I don't know HOW long -- that's made me feel slightly comfortable about my government.

Thank you, Mr. King!

"What if the person on the other end was a terrorist organization?" It's not like a deputy press secretary is involved in policy making decisions. Perhaps I'm wrong in the scope of the job, but isn't a deputy press secretary just a mouthpiece?

Clinton administration was agressively investigated by the congress because a travel department employee fired. How about about a cogressional investgation into the White House practices of cronyism?

This administration gets away with murder witout being impeached or investigated for anything. No one like Rumsfeld or any of the top Generals were fired for the torture scandals. No firing of Chertoff for Katrina disaster. No questions about oil lobby collusion with the Vice President. Only some low level scapegoats are fired.

This is a direct result of no checks and balances. The Congress and Senate just roll over and play dead. And now the Supreme Court is also going to do that. This is as much of a democracy as Tajikistan or any African dictatorship. Yes, we have elections but 99% of incumbents win. This is as bad as elections in Iraq or old Russia where the dictators used to get 99% vote of confidence.

Lets throw the bums out in November.

This is simply another example of how third world we are becoming. In addition to that... Why is it so very difficult for people to believe that things in the Capital are far worse than anything we actually see on the news. The pieces we see are bad enough. Can you imagine what the government hijacked press doesn't show us?

Sad, very sad that our once great nation has been literally torn to shredds in less than two full terms by this band of morons in the white house. We are really in the gutter with these horrible people. It has been proven, over and over that their only direction is down.

96.5% of ALL NEW SEX CRIMES ARE COMMITED BY SOMEONE NOT ON THE REGISTRY IN AMERICA.

Ask for a list of people who may commit a sex crime and be handed the phone book.

Americans are notorious for discriminating against any person labeled with any stigma. Kind of like the flavor of the month, Americans use the stigma of the label as a driving force.

The bigger the fear the less the solution is questioned.

In the mater of sex offenders the bad guys are like Jesse Timmendequas and John Couey.

There are over 800,000 sex offenders registered and living in neighborhoods throughout America.

Most of these sex offenders have families, friends, relatives, and children. Not all of them are ready to kidnap, rape, and murder your child. Most are required to register for much lesser crimes of flashing, prostitution, and a host of other moral offences.

Of all crime categories required to register only 11% of registered sex offenders reoffend within 5 years of there release, 9% reoffend within 10 years, and 5% within 15 years, and 1 % within 20 years after their release. These statistics encompass all types of crimes, and not just crimes of a sexual nature.

In short most sex offenders never reoffend contrary to the media’s tendency to group all registered sex offenders as dangerous. This you can find on the Department Of Justice website, November 2003, NCJ 198281. http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/rsorp94.txt which reads,
Reconviction for a new sex crime
Of the 9,691 released sex offenders, 3.5% (339 of the 9,691) were reconvicted for a sex crime within the 3-year followup period.

In fact only 3.5% of new sex offences are committed by offender on the sex offender's registry.

Most offenders have families, supporters, and friends and are contributing to their neighborhoods as workers tax payers and family supporters. Is that what people want so badly to destroy?

To say it is the moral way to deal with the situation is not a justification. God is Love, and love forgives all things hopes all things and endures all things. To try to say sex offenders can not be rehabilitated is a criminal distortion of the truth.

It is true some sex offenders do not want to change their behavior and will not change. That is not the status quo. Most offenders want to better themselves.

It is true just like homosexuality that some are predisposed to being gay. Those can be likened to pedophiles with no desire to have any other sexual focus in life than a child. This is a very small number compared to the numbers of situational sexual abusers that have the free choice of sexual focus.

To continue to inflict suffering on those that are meeting society’s needs is criminal.

Nothing will justify the abuse sex offenders experience daily at the hands of society through laws not well thought out. These laws are proof that something is desperately wrong with the justice system on matters of sexual abuse.

The bible speaks of the sheep and the goats and a clear separation of the two. Goats are bullies. Today religion is proving its selves to be the ones that do not allow for free moral choice.

Religions want to force their moral standards on mankind. This is contraire to the teaching of Jesus.

To be a Christen you must be a footstep follower of Christ, that is the definition of a Christen.

Jesus held open arms for all sinners because all mankind are sinners.

The only time that Jesus ever forced anything was when he was in the temple and used a whip to force those that were sinning out of his temple.

Not all mankind wants to be in a temple that forces their morality on those outside the temple. That is just too goat like.

Crimes are crimes and sins are sins, and should be treated as such.

The 800.000 sex offenders do have families, friends, and supporters. The number grows each day. These people deserve to be counted as individuals. Each person is a free moral agent with a place in this world.

Sinners casting stones is not the answer.

Thank you for considering this matter with an open mind. Please help stop the senseless destruction of families.

Help stop pain. The slap in the face and the pain that those received from some very bad men has been overshadowed by the pain caused by these poor laws and the uninformed public.

This is not an issue that the current security clearance process would pick up, unless he told friends about what he was doing, and they told the investigator conducting his security clearance. Are the (generally) liberal critics of Doyle suggesting they want to have an aggressive exploration of private computer use by the goverment before someone is hired (like turing over your PC for examination as a condition to security clearance)? If so, let's be honest in the hypocricy. If not, then just how would this sort of behavior be caught execept in terms of this type of arrest? As for his being a security risk, it more comes from the prospect of his being blackmailed for being a sleezeball than from giving out secrets to anonymous people he talked to on the net. In any case, it's unsuitable. As for how a guy who worked for Time as a reporter for years gets hired to work in public relations, well, that question answers itself.

The fact that Mr. Doyle's party affilliation was
never mentioned in this article tells me that he
is a Democrat...but lets not rush to judgement.
I'm sure that it will only prove to most of you
that the Republicans were out to get him. This
smells of Carl Rove. Thank you for your
"left winger bias".