Busted for Stupidity

What can you say about a guy so depraved, so perverted and so downright stupid, that in this day and age gets caught making sexual overtures to a (supposed) 14-year-old girl over the Internet? Especially when he's a Department of Homeland Security official? Wouldn't you think that a guy in a position like that would, at the very least, try to be discreet about who he was and where he worked? Well, if you did, you wouldn't be thinking of Brian Doyle.

What a guy! Apparently he hasn't read about one of the favorite ways law enforcement has these days for trapping potential child molesters who troll for underage trim in chat rooms and such: having a detective pose as a youngster online and then baiting some short-eyed idiot into incriminating himself (it's always a guy, be sure of that) by attempting to meet or get the "kid" to send dirty pictures or pose for a webcam or some damn thing. Sheesh. Just when did Mr. Doyle fall off the turnip truck, anyway?

Perhaps this is the consequence of being a part of the Lie, Cheat and Steal administration. Guys like Doyle (and Claude Allen, and David Safavian) see the big boys -- Bush, Cheney, Rummy, etc. -- get away with high crimes and misdemeanors on a regular basis, and figure they must be bulletproof as well. Is there tequila in the water they serve in the White House and the Capitol? What else could make these fellows believe that they won't get caught in their dirty little endeavors?

Just like watching Tom DeLay go down a couple days ago, I have to admit to a bit of schadenfreude at Doyle's predicament -- which he unquestionably brought on himself, and for which I have absolutely no sympathy -- but imagine how much happier I'd be if some of the real criminals in this administration were made to pay for their crimes!