I’ve been covering the comings and goings in Washington for quite a while now, but lately, it just seems like I keep running across stories that sound as if they must have been taken from an ill-conceived Saturday Night Live skit rather than anything from reality. That was certainly the case when I read about a male staffer allegedly working for Democratic Senator Ben Cardin (and who is now unemployed) filming himself fully naked while having sex with another man in a Senate hearing room and posting the video online. The story was beyond outrageous and didn’t even seem possible, but the staffer was given the boot and it appears that this really happened. Now questions are being raised as to whether this stunt crossed the line from obscenely unprofessional conduct to criminal behavior that could lead to a prosecution. Jonathan Turley believes that it might. (Yahoo News)
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