Intelligence Agency Fails to Report Admissions of Criminal Conduct by Employees and Contractors

Here’s a nasty little companion piece to today’s story about tax-delinquent employees of the Internal Revenue Service receiving big performance bonuses, courtesy of McClatchy News, which has been working on the story for years:

The nation’s spy satellite agency failed to notify authorities when some employees and contractors confessed during lie detector tests to crimes such as child molestation, an intelligence inspector general has concluded.

In other cases, the National Reconnaissance Office delayed reporting criminal admissions obtained during security clearance polygraphs, possibly jeopardizing evidence in investigations or even the safety of children, according to the inspector general report released Tuesday , almost two years after McClatchy’s reporting raised similar concerns.

Child molestation? And not just an old incident, either. It turned out that the contractor in question was still actively in contact with the victim:

In one instance, one of the agency’s top lawyers told colleagues not to bother reporting confessions by a government contractor of child molestation, viewing child pornography and sexting with a minor, the inquiry by the inspector general for the intelligence community revealed.

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