When Senator Lamar Alexander’s (R TN) Chief of Staff, Ryan Loskarn,
was arrested, last year, for trading in the rape and torture of
children, aka child pornography, not one journalist provided context to
the story. The media reported Loskarn’s arrest, and subsequent suicide
pending trial, as if it were a one-off event. As if, no other high-level
government employees were being arrested on child porn charges.
So, I suppose I should be thrilled to see that both Paul Farrell, the Breaking News Editor for Heavy, and Shane Harris, Sr. Intelligence and National Security Correspondent for The Daily Beast
and New America Foundation Fellow, have, at least, tried to provide
context to the State Department’s Director of Counterterrorism, Daniel Rosen’s arrest this week for attempting to solicit sex from children.
Farrell reported Rosen’s arrest was “the Second Child Sex Scandal to Hit D.C. in 12 Months.” Harris reported Rosen’s arrest marks the “3rd U.S. Official Hit With Child Sex and Porn Charges.”
At least Paul and Shane poked their heads up and said something like:
Hang on. Seems to me I’ve heard this story before. Haven’t there been
other recent arrests of high level government officials on child sex
abuse charges?
Nonetheless, both are very far off the
mark. A simple Google or Twitter search would have revealed way more
than two or three government officials arrested on similar charges in
the past few months alone.
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