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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:43 PM Oct 2014

Investigator in Prostitution Scandal Quits (U.S. Secret Service)

Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The investigator who led the Department of Homeland Security’s internal review of the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal quietly resigned in August after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute, according to current and former department officials.

Sheriff’s deputies in Broward County, Fla., saw David Nieland, the investigator, entering and leaving a building they had under surveillance as part of a prostitution investigation, according to officials briefed on the investigation. They later interviewed a prostitute who identified Mr. Nieland in a photograph and said he had paid her for sex.

Mr. Nieland resigned after he refused to answer a series of questions from the Department of Homeland Security inspector general about the incident, the officials said.

A spokesman for the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general said in a statement that he could confirm only that Mr. Nieland resigned in August. But the spokesman added that department officials “became aware in early May of this year of an incident in Florida that involved one of our employees.”


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/us/politics/investigator-in-secret-service-prostitution-scandal-resigns-after-being-implicated-in-own-incident.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0



In all seriousness: What in fuck's name is going on in the SS? Does anybody there know how to perform their duties in a professional manner?
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Investigator in Prostitution Scandal Quits (U.S. Secret Service) (Original Post) Blue_Tires Oct 2014 OP
but don't worry, the folks at NSA spying on your children, they're 100% trustworthy... whereisjustice Oct 2014 #1
Jeeze, you gotta be shitting me. This has gotten ridiculous. nt 7962 Oct 2014 #2
This is normal behavior in an ossified security state. PSPS Oct 2014 #3
Power Corrupts. n/t PeoViejo Oct 2014 #4

whereisjustice

(2,941 posts)
1. but don't worry, the folks at NSA spying on your children, they're 100% trustworthy...
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:52 PM
Oct 2014

From the article:

In 2013, according to department officials, Mr. Nieland accused the inspector general’s office of retaliating against him for making those allegations when it suspended him for two weeks without pay after he circulated photographs that he had taken of a female intern’s feet.

The intern asked to be transferred out of the office after the incident. Mr. Nieland, according to the officials, said he had circulated the images as a joke.


These are the types of people running our security state.

PSPS

(13,594 posts)
3. This is normal behavior in an ossified security state.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:25 PM
Oct 2014

Only when things get too much attention and become "embarrassing" do the principals "resign" or otherwise move on, unscathed. There is no real penalty, of course.

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