Senator (Lamar Alexander) suspends top aide amid child porn raid

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Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, R, placed his chief of staff on administrative leave without pay after the staffer's personal residence was searched in connection to a child pornography investigation.

Alexander, a veteran senator who's up for re-election in 2014, said that law enforcement agents had conducted a search this morning of the residence of Ryan Loskarn.

"I am stunned, surprised and disappointed by what I have learned," Alexander said in a statement. "Based on this information, I immediately placed Mr. Loskarn on administrative leave without pay. The office is fully cooperating with the investigation.”

A chief of staff is typically the most senior staff position in a congressional office. That role carries even more import in an office like Alexander's, which carries a degree of seniority and influence with it.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/11/21863454-senator-suspends-top-aide-amid-child-porn-raid?lite

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2. Hopefully he'd be blocked at work from any kind of site like that...

But you never know.