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FBI Busted for Spying on Teenage Girls

by Jordan Yerman | April 21, 2009 at 08:51 am

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Two FBI employees (the article doesn't call them "agents") were busted for using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they tried on prom dresses.

Gary Sutton Jr. and Charles Hommema have been charged with misdemeanors and could face jail time if convicted. The FBI's only public response to the incident so far has been a platitude about privacy.

The dressing rooms did not have ceilings, and the camera zoomed in and trained its focus on one particular dressing room for more than an hour. Several girls used that dressing room to try on prom dresses.

Meanwhile, Sutton's attorney has stated that his client is innocent.

The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy.

Bad press doesn't get much worse than that.

"The FBI is committed to the timely and full resolution of this matter, but must remain sensitive to the privacy concerns of any potential victims and their families," the statement said.

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Barbara McPherson

at 09:21 on April 21st, 2009

Incidents like this make me wonder what other abuses these two have indulged in and not been caught out. A slap on the wrist is not enough.

KJ (not verified)

at 22:43 on April 21st, 2009

Entries like yours make me wonder how you've been able to survive this long without constant help from others. In other words, you appear to be too stupid to live on your own. Am I hitting too close to home? The actual point to that comment is that it is really easy for me to sit here and judge you based off of what I see from a dumb picture and the fact that you have actually taken the time to attain "gold status" on some lame blog. Before you sit back and judge others in the world, why don't you stop, think for a second, and realize that the right thing to do is to shut your mouth!

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at 10:12 on April 21st, 2009

Esta said: "...but peeping toms, on our dime ?.. and this is the FEDs.. it doesn't say a whole lot for their character as a whole, now does it, a pervert is a pervert.. weather he wears a badge or not."

Tragically, there's a lot of this going on and while I'm not prepared to point my finger at the FBI, others are (but this is heresay). There are those who feel that some (in goverment?) are employing the old tricks of COINTELPRO to harass and otherwise terrorize innocent, good and law-abiding Americans for God-and-they-only-know what reasons.

"Targeted" Americans are being harassed right here in the good, old USA, but the truth has yet to spill out, as I hope and pray it will. What's going on is shameful, but I trust the truth will come out soon enough.

Mikasi

at 13:04 on April 21st, 2009

I will start scanning the late night cable stations for "Agents Gone Wild" videos.

duo

at 14:02 on April 21st, 2009

Thanks, Jordan. This is my daily laugh. I like the last sentence in your article best:

The FBI .... must REMAIN sensitive to the privacy concerns of any potential victims and their families."

Hello? Talk about domestic spying, this is the epitome - watching little girls undress. I hope they get life. Just kidding! But if you think that would be excessive sentencing, you should read about the Scott sisters, two black women in a Mississippi prison where they have been for 14.5 years of their DOUBLE LIFE SENTENCES for an $11 robbery. http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1118098