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25th August 2012, 02:09 AM
Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/employees/)
By Robert Beckhusen (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/robertbeckhusen/)
Email Author (robertbeckhusen@gmail.com)
August 22, 201
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/08/cbp-660x440.jpg (http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/08/cbp.jpg)An unidentified Customs and Border Protection officer scans a car dashboard with a density meter in San Luis, Arizona on Feb. 16, 2012. Photo: Customs and Border Protection
Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year.
Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security nearly a decade ago, the agency’s inspector general has been tasked with uncovering corruption, waste and criminality within its own ranks. The IG has had his hands full.
more: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/employees/
By Robert Beckhusen (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/robertbeckhusen/)
Email Author (robertbeckhusen@gmail.com)
August 22, 201
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/08/cbp-660x440.jpg (http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/08/cbp.jpg)An unidentified Customs and Border Protection officer scans a car dashboard with a density meter in San Luis, Arizona on Feb. 16, 2012. Photo: Customs and Border Protection
Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year.
Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security nearly a decade ago, the agency’s inspector general has been tasked with uncovering corruption, waste and criminality within its own ranks. The IG has had his hands full.
more: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/employees/