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Subject: [ISN] A Senior NSA Official Engaged In Abusive Behavior Toward Women, An Inspector General Report Fi
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2018-10-22 8:36:34
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonaleopold/a-senior-nsa-official-engaged-in-abusive-behavior-toward
By Jason Leopold
BuzzFeed News Reporter
October 18, 2018
WASHINGTON -- A senior National Security Agency official touched women
inappropriately at the agency, sent sexually suggestive and racist
messages over a top secret computer network, and covertly used his
supervisor's email account to send himself a sexually charged email,
according to an NSA inspector general report.
The incidents took place in 2012, but details about the allegations have
remained classified and are only now being disclosed after BuzzFeed News
filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the NSA for copies of
its inspector general reports that lay bare waste, fraud, and abuse.
The official's name at the center of the allegations was redacted from the
report -- "Misuse of Government Communications Systems and Conduct
Unbecoming" -- on privacy grounds. The document identifies him only as a
"deputy chief" of a division within the NSA. The official retired from the
agency after he was interviewed by investigators and confronted about his
behavior, the report said.
The deputy chief had already been reprimanded once, in 2011, for sending
sexually explicit chat messages over the NSA's top secret communications
network. At the time, he received a letter of counseling. The inspector
general, who spent more than a year investigating the allegations, called
the deputy chief's behavior "egregious."
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