You may have a point, then again if he were keeping tabs on his chief of staff as he should have, he would have known the man was a weirdo.
A lot of looking the other way is done in DC.
If being a weirdo was an employment disqualification, a lot of freepers would be out of a job.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I just have no reason to believe that Alexander had reason to suspect Loskarn of wrongdoing. It’s not like he walked into the office and announced “Damn, I love kiddie porn!”
(If Mr Loskarn did make such an announcement, then I withdraw my defense of Senator Alexander.)
One of the first things you learn when the life of somebody around you takes a turn to the scandalous is how little you actually know about the people around you. Guy whose wedding I was best man at got caught cheating (with the woman whose wedding he’d been best man at), next thing you know a whole list of “side women” start surfacing, and it’s an amazing and shocking list. And we’d spent years in the same office, and more years in adjacent cubes, and had about an 80% overlap in friends, including most of his side women. All kinds of whacky stuff going on while I wasn’t looking, and that’s just when somebody doing something immoral, add illegal to the mix (and not needing a “partner”) and the ability to have shocking revelations grows exponentially.
Holy cr@p, that pic screams “Faggie!!!”
Wow. My gaydar just exploded.