Huh. This isn’t the biggest story of the evening. But it’s probably the biggest story that’s not gotten much attention yet. https://t.co/T1keoE4TNC
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 28, 2019
I know there’s a corollary to Rule 34 which states that pr0n, some of it illegal, has been downloaded on every website more than three days old, but still…
… Richard Ciccarella — a non-commissioned officer who told federal agents he was in charge of communications at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach resort — became a target of an investigation after he uploaded photos of a young girl to a seedy Russian website between 2017 and 2018, according to court documents.
Ciccarella used the username RICH25N to upload suspicious photographs and folders to the website iMGSRC.RU between November 2017 and February 2018, according to court documents…
Ciccarella accessed the website with an email address linked to his work phone, court records state.
The 34-year-old staff sergeant was stationed at Mar-a-Lago between Aug. 2017 and March 2018, according to the Palm Beach Post, which first reported the story. He was “responsible for setup and maintained all of the communications for the President at Mar-a-Lago,” according to a sentencing memo filed by his defense attorney. Previously, he was assigned to the White House switchboard in Washington, D.C., and was “responsible for making and placing calls for the President, Vice President and senior White House Staff,” the memo states. He also traveled with the president and vice president to maintain their communications…
Ciccarella’s use of a Russian website to upload sensitive images while overseeing official communications at Trump’s resort raised concerns among security experts. It marked the latest security breach at or involving Mar-a-Lago.
Peter Harrell, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former Obama administration State Department official, said Ciccarella’s case presented a “significant security risk” had U.S. authorities not discovered what Ciccarella was doing…
“With this administration putting so much of the president’s time in and around Mar-a-Lago,” Harrell said, “it’s got to be a very attractive environment for espionage.’’
Once the current occupant has been evicted, it’s gonna take months to fumigate the place. The final solution may well involve teams of exorcists.
Mnemosyne
He posted photos of his own daughter for perverts to slobber over. ??
Yeah, I’m comfortable calling the kind of men who would make sexual comments about an 11-year-old in her underwear “perverts.”
Ruckus
May have to pour gasoline on it and set it on fire, burn every single thing that will burn. Then salt the earth. Then teams of exorcists. Then the pope. Then set it on fire – again. Fence it off lest any living thing comes in contact with any part of the remains. In a thousand years they can put up a McDs, nothing can hurt whatever that stuff is that they serve calling it food.
West of the Rockies
Had to look up Rule 34… You learn something everyday.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Only the best people
Jersey Tomato
A question for the tech savvy among us: if he used his work phone, which presumably allows him access to White House computer networks, could the Russian website have infected his phone somehow to use it to gain access to those computers themselves?
Ruckus
@West of the Rockies:
Notice that he is 34 yrs old. Strange or………
Emma
Controlled nuclear implosion. From orbit.
Confiscate the property. Turn it into an orphanage or a center for climate research.
Joey Maloney
We can invite the Brits over to re-enact the War of 1812. They seem to have some serious angst to work out these days, I’m sure they’d be happy for the opportunity.
hervevillechaizelounge
I know this doesn’t matter but his daughter (assuming she’s the female child on his social media accounts) is fucking adorable and she appears to be five or six years old.
What the fuck is wrong with some people?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Can we just cut off Russia’s access to the internet and international financial institutions and be done with it? Those corrupt fucks have literally nothing to offer beyond smut and avarice.
TS (the original)
@hervevillechaizelounge: Those “some people” are making it near impossible for fathers to have a close relationship with their daughters. Mr TS was my best helper when raising our daughter – he was bathing, feeding & changing her near every weekend & often during the week when she was a babe. As she grew I began to work away from home & they were an inseparable pair from age 7 to 17. NEVER was there a thought that there was anything but a father/daughter relationship & they are still best friends today.
I so hate that such relationships today are scarred by this sort of horror.
Fred Fnord
I mean never mind how evil and vicious they all are, it’s the staggering levels of stupidity that boggle my mind. Boggle boggle.
JDM
Evil geniuses are rare outside of fiction.
WereBear
Because evil is a DEgenerative force, not a generative one. They are parasites. They can’t “create” wealth, they only target and steal it.
JPL
His daughter knows at this point what he did. I hope that she is afforded the opportunity to have therapy.
satby
Sitting here by candlelight since my power has been out all night. Took 2 1/2 hours to drive home in the massive rainstorm that moved through the area. Normally takes about 90 minutes. At least when I get to the market this morning I can get coffee. ?
Phone battery almost dead, so good morning everyone!
OzarkHillbilly
This is the sort of thing that could happen in any administration** and yet it happens again and again and again in this admin, which just speaks to the generally low standards that prevail among them. People feel comfortable giving their lowest impulses free reign.
** I find it highly unlikely any admin has anything to do with the placement of staff sergeants in such lowly yet sensitive positions.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Blech.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: I think she already said that.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well, I would expect that most staff sergeants have a modicum of intelligence. This guy, however, is clearly a fucking moron. [Never mind the sick, evil part.]
karensky
@Emma: I like the climate change idea a lot.
pluky
@Jersey Tomato: yes
Mart
Whatever happened to the Chinese woman illegally mucking about Maralago? About impossible to keep up with all the shitstorms raining down from the Trumpsters.
Ruckus
@hervevillechaizelounge:
I’m going to hedge my bets here a bit with an answer – everything.
But mostly selfishness, a level of narcissism. Few of us have zero, some have 100%. You can imagine at least one who fits that mold of 100%.