The ladder of law has no top and no botton

I didn't want to comment on this story, but it's just too awful not to. In a nutshell, Deputy Press Secretary of the Department Homeland Security Brian Doyle, the guy who is somewhat responsible for disseminating information to the public about terrorist threats and general incompetent goings on at DHS, attempted to disseminate something else in or around a police officer he thought was a 14 year old girl.

This story is being subsumed somewhat by Tom Delay's cowardly yet shrewd exit from his congressional race and Cynthia McKinney's continuing slide towards Bellevue, but the details of this are a bit scary; Doyle told the "girl" that he worked for DHS and gave her his home, cell phone, and government cell phone numbers. Yikes. What kind of vetting does the Bush administration do? Do they even ask questions of job applicants, or is just more of a turnstyle?

No joke here. This is just really, really awful.