Even With Kiddie Sex “Victim,” DHS Flack Talked Shop

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Oh, Brian Doyle. Former deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. Accused kiddie sex freak.

Even when you were talking with a 14-year-old girl (or so you believed) whom you met in an online sex chat room, you didn’t stop thinking about our nation’s security.

Prosecutors have released documents relating to their case (some of which we’ve posted – see below), including a transcript of an April 4 phone call between Doyle and “Ashlynn,” in reality an undercover agent:

BD: . . . [I]t’s a little busy. I’m um, I’m dealing with this reporter in San Francisco who’s doing a piece for the San Francisco Chronicle on the Counter man (inaudible) program. [ed: he’s likely referring to the counter-MANPADS systems the department is considering, to protect aircraft against shoulder-fired missiles.] Those are the shoulder fired missiles. Uh, that you can either, can shoot at a plane and the system is being developed to counter the (inaudible) laser systesm, so. . . It’s a very kind of a, tricky story to try to deal with because there is a lot of politics involved in it and you kinda have to be careful of what you say as much as uh, (inaudible) and also how you say it, if you know what I mean?

Agent: Well, sounds pretty important right?

BD: Well it’s very (inaudible), very, very tight. So uh, you know, once, once this thing comes to publication I’ll be much more comfortable I think. Uh, get that out of the way.

Eternal vigiliance, and all that.

We’ve got his interrogation transcript and his arrest report, so there’s lots to amaze and disgust. Listen disbelievingly while Doyle explains that even though he was telling “Ashlynn” about the sexual dreams he had about her, he wasn’t actually into sex with 14-year-old girls! Shock yourself with the Florida Sheriff’s merciless criticism of Doyle’s spelling. Learn of his acute fondness for Celtic imagery.

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