Monday, November 16, 2009

We're the Only Ones Checking Enough

Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the censure, asked a co-worker's husband who worked for the San Diego Police Department to run a background check on his ex-wife's boyfriend. [More]
That sure makes him sound like a stalker, doesn't it? And sweetie's taste in men is a surprise?

Good thing he recognizes it was a "mistake" to abuse his awesome federal "Only One" powers for personal business, as he asks us to now endow him with even more.

Thing is, to me, a mistake is when I'm doing math and forget to carry the two...

[Via Michael R]

2 comments:

W W Woodward said...

"Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the censure, asked a co-worker's husband who worked for the San Diego Police Department to run a background check on his ex-wife's boyfriend."

In Texas, that is a crime. The solicitor as well as the officer who ran the check could well have been prosecuted. Maybe not in Kalifornia ???

O'Bobble-head's appointment of this guy seems to fit the pattern of many of his other appointments.

straightarrow said...

A mistake is unintentional. What he did was wrong and illegal, but it wasn't a mistake as he did it on purpose.

WWW, no, it's a crime in Ca. also, but who watches the watchers?

Isn't funny that if one's memory is imperfect he/she can be prosecuted as a felon for lying to law enforcement and it is never considered just an honest mistake? But this guy's intentional act is allowed to misnamed as a mistake?