Report Finds FBI Bosses Engaged in Lewd Conduct

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — A number of F.B.I. supervisors recently engaged in lewd conduct and improper sexual activity, and a senior official resigned after he was found to have had affairs with two subordinates, according to a Justice Department report released on Thursday.

The report, from the Justice Department inspector general, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation's handling of several of the cases was troubling and raised questions of preferential treatment. In the case of the senior official who had sex with the two employees, officials reversed a recommendation that he be discharged and instead decided to suspend and demote him. The unidentified official, a deputy assistant director who also faced other accusations of sexual improprieties, resigned in September.

In general, the inspector general's office said that although it remained concerned about the appearance of a double standard in the disciplining of some bureau employees, it found no conclusive pattern of lenient treatment for senior officials.

The director of the bureau, Robert S. Mueller III, said after reviewing the report that "I am gratified that accusations of a double standard were not substantiated" and that investigators found no evidence that the bureau had allowed disciplinary cases to simply "disappear," as one agent said last year in an interview on "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV.

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http://nytimes.com/2003/11/14/national/14FBI.html

[dArKeR]

1. Who baited me on this one? I bet the FBI/CIA are the best customers

in Thai, Philippine and China prostitution bars! (Along with Federal Staff workers.)

[The Zanti Regent]

2. Are they going to work for Arnold?

They sound like his kind of men!

[TeeYiYi]

3. Best customers besides Jeb Bush. .......n/t

TYY

[catzies]

6. I thought it was Neil Bush...?...

Remeber what came out in his divorce? :shrug:

[donsu]

5. agree

nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. So the identities of these government employees

whose salaries are paid by the taxpayers will be protected as jealously as the crown jewels, while there was no detail we were spared concerning Bill Clinton's personal peccadillos, in addition to stories I fully believe were completely bogus by a some other women.

Too tacky for words, and something they should have to explain to the taxpayers.

From the article:

The senior official also had sex with another employee on government property, and he created "the appearance of impropriety" by letting a prostitute accompany him to a hotel on an out-of-town training trip, the report found. When the bureau began investigating his activities, he also misled investigators about the affairs and contacted two witnesses in an effort to obstruct the investigation, the report said.

The inspector general's office said it was particularly troubled by the bureau's handling of this case, and it said that the decision to suspend the official, rather than dismiss him, as originally recommended, suggested "preferential treatment."

The inspector general also detailed misconduct of a nonsexual nature.

In one case, the report said, a supervisor was fired in 2001 after he had directed employees to file false reports about why the bureau had failed to spend $10 million appropriated by Congress for local police equipment. The supervisor reportedly told employees to declare that states that were to receive the money had failed to complete their law enforcement plans, the report said, when in fact F.B.I. officials never realized that the appropriation existed in the first place. (snip/)