A Senior NSA Official Engaged In Abusive Behavior Toward Women, An Inspector General Report Finds

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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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