Showing posts with label diplomatic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diplomatic. Show all posts
Friday, July 28, 2017
Diplomatic Security Special Agent Indicted for Possession and Receipt of Child Pornography
Diplomatic Security Special Agent Indicted for Possession and Receipt of Child Pornography
Via DOJ/FBI:
TAMPA�United States Attorney Robert E. O�Neill announces that James Charles Cafferty (45, Largo) was indicted on October 19, 2011 for possession and receipt of child pornography. Cafferty faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison on the charge involving the receipt of child pornography, and up to 10 years in federal prison on the possession of child pornography charge. At the time of his arrest, Cafferty was a special agent in Diplomatic Security with the Department of State.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and the Largo Police Department. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Colleen Murphy Davis.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys� Offices and the Criminal Division�s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov and click on the tab �other resources.�
The Smoking Gun covered this case in late September here complete with a mug shot. The special agent for Diplomatic Security was reportedly stationed at the U.S. Embassy in London when he was named in an August 29 felony complaint charging him with possession of child pornography.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Devastating Tsunami Hits Peter Van Buren Security Clearance and Diplomatic PPT Swept Away in Foggy Waters
Devastating Tsunami Hits Peter Van Buren Security Clearance and Diplomatic PPT Swept Away in Foggy Waters
The diplomat of 23 years experience now has to use the Visitors Entrance of the U.S. State Department? Well, thats what it looks like. Some folks are quite happy with that - to see Mr. Van Burens work bag inspected and Mr. Van Buren wanded every time he goes into the Big House. I suspect that the somebodies rather that he does not show up, but so far, they have not yet figure out how to fire him. Theyre pouring over the FAM on what regs to cite for that. I hate to think how much manhour-cost the taxpayers are expending just for this very important task.
The good news is, anonymous officials of the State Department can now tell their media contacts that Mr. Van Buren is officially under investigation. But dont worry, the official spokesman will continue to say that this is an internal, personnel matter that he/she is unable to discuss publicly for privacy reasons.
I cant say for sure who in the Big House reads our blog. But somebody took our advice not to order a tsunami on the book launch of Peter Van Burens We Meant Well last September 27. It would have looked, you know, bad and vindictive. Well, they followed that advice until today.
On October 18, the ordered tsunami finally hit the cubicle of FSO Peter Van Buren. He was stripped of his security clearance. Well, stripped might be too strong a word. His Top Secret security clearance was officially "suspended" pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation. The suspension of security clearance is, of course, not formal revocation, nor does it indicate that a revocation is in the works. It is an ongoing investigation, you see.
They also took away his diplomatic passport. Perhaps, they were afraid, he would run away and fly back to Iraq using his black passport. That must be it.
I cant find anywhere in the FAM the regs governing the confiscation of a diplomatic passport. Regs must be behind the firewall. The Bureau of Consular Affairs has a special issuance unit that does just the issuance of diplomatic and official passports. But it sounds like the "somebodies" at the State Department can also demand the surrender of the black passport at any time; need not even have to be officials of the Consular Bureau.
Well, anytime, they dont want you to run away to Iraq. Its for your own protection.
So after 23 years, the veteran diplomats ability to handle protected information is now in question.
It has nothing to do, of course, with writing a critical book about our reconstruction boondoggle in Iraq.
Yo guys, that sounds suspiciously lame, you realized that?
.....You dont care?
Well, tigers must eat meat ....
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