Wed 21 Sep 2005
Great news! The War on Terror is over! Apparently America is now safe from Islamofacist ner-do-wells who want to blow up our building and kill lots of civilians.
Early last month, the [FBI] bureau’s Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a July 29 Electronic Communication from FBI headquarters to all 56 field offices, describing the initiative as “one of the top priorities” of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales….
The new squad will divert eight agents, a supervisor and assorted support staff to gather evidence against “manufacturers and purveyors” of pornography — not the kind exploiting children, but the kind that depicts, and is marketed to, consenting adults.
“I guess this means we’ve won the war on terror,” said one exasperated FBI agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity because poking fun at headquarters is not regarded as career-enhancing. “We must not need any more resources for espionage.”
Down in Miami its even better:
When FBI supervisors in Miami met with new interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta last month, they wondered what the top enforcement priority for Acosta and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be.
Would it be terrorism? Organized crime? Narcotics trafficking? Immigration? Or maybe public corruption?
The agents were stunned to learn that a top prosecutorial priority of Acosta and the Department of Justice was none of the above. Instead, Acosta told them, it’s obscenity. Not pornography involving children, but pornographic material featuring consenting adults.
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Sources say Acosta was told by the FBI officials during last month’s meeting that obscenity prosecution would have to be handled by the crimes against children unit. But that unit is already overworked and would have to take agents off cases of child endangerment to work on adult porn cases. Acosta replied that this was Attorney General Gonzales’ mandate.
So long as we protect children from possible exposure to smut it doesn’t matter how many are abused by pedophiles, right?
Law.com post on the Miami edict here
WaPo article on the FBI recruitment drive here
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September 23rd, 2005 at 11:54 am
somehow or another, with deployments at an all-time high, I don’t think this is going to go over well with the Military constituents. The only reason why we don’t have more people going postal in a combat zone is they get access to porn. I’m sure this will go over REEEEAL well.
something tells me this is either a grand joke, or it’s going to be the most amazing failure of the justice system in our history.
September 23rd, 2005 at 12:51 pm
Its blantent pandering to special interests. The only special interests I want the government pandering to are mine. And my interest is to be left the hell alone.