NASA Employees Caught Buying Child Porn, Never Prosecuted

The Daily Mail learned through a public records request that federal authorities learned in 2010 the identity of 16 NASA employees who had purchased child pornography through Internet websites based in Belarus and the Ukraine. The NASA employees were among more than 5,000 Americans ensnared in Project Flicker, a joint investigation of the FBI and ICE launched in 2007 to track and prosecute those responsible for flooding the U.S. with child pornography.

NASA redacted the names of those employees implicated in the investigation, making it impossible to discern whether the persons are still working for the government. What is known is that none of the employees were prosecuted. In 2010 it was revealed that 264 employees working at the Pentagon were identified as purchasing child pornography. Some of those employees worked in national security and had top level security clearances. The Defense Criminal Investigative Service only investigated 52 of the identified Pentagon workers. At the end of the probe, only ten Pentagon employees were charged with buying or viewing child pornography. The DCIS complained it lacked adequate resources to investigate all of the employees.