So much for the background checks the federal government is required to perform on it's employees. If this had been any other joe he would be looking at 115 years in prison no questions asked. Money does conquer all.

Personally, this makes me rather ill to my stomach. The raw potential violation of a child at the hands of a high government official is something that makes one wonder - who is in charge up on capitol hill. Where are the ethics or good mental health of some of our government people? Certainly this person is not of sound mind.

These are the people who are supposed to be providing for American security and now we find they too are the criminals.

5 years in prison and then probation - the punishment does not fit the crime. Perhaps the government will send him to Club Fed where their idea of hard labor is having to clean their own plates.

I give up trying to understand any of it anymore.

So much for the "we're the good guys/your're the bad guys", the "faithful vs the heathen" propaganda myth that the country has been blasted with by those in power for the last six yrs. By the way, what do Delay, Cunninghan, Ney, Abramoff, Doyle, Limbaugh, etc. etc., have in common? Take a guess and then do something about it in November. That's when it counts.

Are you kiddin' me? Outrageous!

I haven't noticed any political party having a corner on the market. It seems a few years ago when Clinton was having sexual relations with an employee under his direct control, I kept hearing that personal moral issues did not have any effect on professional effectiveness. Hmm- I guess only people from the current administration are subject to moral censure. I personally agree that Doyle should get a stiffer sentence but I would question whether an average guy off the street would get a stiffer one. I basically see little girls and boys having their lives destroyed by predators and the scum are back on the street before the kid graduates high school.