Why Did The Bush-Era Pentagon Ignore Child Porn Purchases By Defense Dept. Employees?
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A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But the Pentagon investigated only a handful of the cases, Defense Department records show.
The cases turned up during a 2006 ICE inquiry, called Project Flicker, which targeted overseas processing of child-porn payments. As part of the probe, ICE investigators gained access to the names and credit card information of more than 5,000 Americans who had subscribed to websites offering images of child pornography. Many of those individuals provided military email addresses or physical addresses with Army or fleet ZIP codes when they purchased the subscriptions.
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It was the fault of Obama, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, George Soros, and the Muslims, that’s why.
“I’d really like to know….”
Silly leftist. Read the article
” And child pornography investigations are difficult to prosecute. Many judges wouldn’t issue search warrants based on years-old evidence saying the targets subscribed to a kiddie porn website once.”
“THEY NEEDED THE CP TO FIGHT AL QAEDA. TYPICAL LIBERAL, WEAK ON DEFENSE”-Matt Drudge
inverseliberal:
They could always go with the Pete Townshend defense.
“Project Flicker“? Really?
Silly liberal:
“… DCIS is primarily tasked with rooting out contractor fraud and investigating security breaches; its 400 staffers were already plenty busy before Project Flicker dropped 264 more names onto their caseloads…”
Republicans don’t increase staff to investigate contractor fraud or security breaches or sex crimes or… anything that Republicans do.
Because we all know American military personnel are the most morally upright people on the planet.
DING DING DING and there you have it folks! Thanks Ben, come down and get your Kewpie doll…..
This is the “dog whistle” . The lefties have been muzzled from ragging on the military lately, public opinion has kept them from publicly spitting on returning servicemen and women like the good old days. You guys have to camouflage your insults with crap like this.
inverse, fuck you. Dont bring up the old love for the troops meme, for the last 20 years its been Repubs who politicise the military. Most people join the military to get away from the all the political BS in the world, then crazy bastards(who would never put themselves in the way if they had 2 fight) vote for pieces of shit that are owned by the military industrial complex, therefore profiting from wars. They pull the old jesus shtick to get the so-called faithful, who seem 2 love blood as much as we make muslims out to do, and with our representatives who dont care how many of us die, we march on to war, wondering strangely why he’s walking the other way counting his dollars.
More lies:
“…lefties … spitting on returning servicemen and women…”
Never happened.
But, facts don’t matter to Republicans.
How can we even communicate with them? Do they want to keep destroying the US? How do we persuade them not to?
That’s right, Inverse, we only pretend to be disgusted with pedophiles because it gives us an excuse to attack Our Boys.
LIBERALS CAUSE MILITARY PERSONNEL TO BECOME CHILD PORN CONSUMERS BECAUSE THEY HATE OUR MILITARY—–
Drudge Report.
IDENTITY_THEFT
Too hard to prove in court would be my first guess.
Ben:
“Most people join the military to get away from the all the political BS in the world”
LOL WUT?
Booooooooooooooooooosh!
I love the smell of desperate moonbats in the morning…smells like…November.
Booooooooooooooooooosh!
I love the smell of desperate moonbats in the morning…smells like…November.
No other cards in the deck, Hmm. What else can they do?
I guess they think third time’s a charm.
public opinion has kept them from publicly spitting on returning servicemen and women like the good old days.
I was there, “returning” in the Good Old Days of 1968, in San Francisco, the most left-wing environment in America, surrounded by “hippies” while working at shows with the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane, and…
IT NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED.
Everyone knew I had served, pretty obvious from the short hair and the faded fatigue shirt with my name on the pocket, no one gave a shit.
You were not there, but you perpetuate the lie.
When you give a lot of guys weapons and remove all consequences for using them, terrible things will happen to people who have been dehumanized as either “gooks,” or in the 21st Century, “ragheads.” Soldiers in the field are not fighting for the flag, mom and apple pie, no matter what your non-serving propagandists tell you. They are fighting for two things, to stay alive and not let down their colleagues, and if some skinny “gook” or “raghead” with funky teeth gets dead, that’s kind of too bad but, ya know, shit happens.
People whose country has been overrun by arrogant American troops now and then take violent exception. How would you feel if Chinese soldiers stood on every corner of your home town?
“IT NEVER FU$@ING HAPPENED.
You were not there, but you perpetuate the lie.”
Until you produce a video showing proof it didn’t happen, you’re a liar. — John Lewis
Again with the race to the bottom, SF, you’re starting to make Frank Deodorant Spray look like a Jesuit.
SF, why would you have more credibility on that subject than I do?
If you know.
Repack, you didn’t “return”. You served in a military hospital. Because people in San Francisco didn’t spit on you doesn’t mean they didn’t spit on anyone, whether they were over in Viet Nam fighting or over here serving in a military hospital. You’re no more the authority than anyone else here, despite your false bravado in thinking you are.
Spitting may have occured, both by pro and anti war zealots. It was not an act condoned and encouraged by “The Left.”
None of which answers the question as to why so many incidents involving child pornography were not looked into. I don’t know why Dennis and friends get worked up over stuff like this. Our “look forward, not backward, prosecute no one save whistleblowers” President will let this slide by, I’m sure.
In 2003 I saw wingnut posts (at chickenhawk blogs) riling up their readers by predicting abuse by “liberals” on returning servicemen. Boy did that on ever pan out.
Wingnuts basing their morality, nay, their very existence, on “the things the Others do”?
Typical.
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So far in this thread we have inbredliberal, Shave Farris, and Dennis “Summer’s Eve” the Douche. All we need to complete the set is Dennis’ partner FDS.
Then you’d have a wingnut flush.
With just Dennis and Save it’s a “lookover there pair”. But as always, this is a bit like playing cards with toddlers. Usually pointless except that you’ve kept them out of trouble for a while.
Downtown Randy Brown and timmy = Zzzzzzz.
SaveFarris says:
September 4, 2010 at 1:43 pm
“… Until you produce a video showing proof it didn’t happen, you’re a liar.”
Cliché, but classic…
and, he adds John Lewis!
Again, SF, Dennis, etc. know better; they just joke around.
Downtown Randy Brown and timmy = Zzzzzzz.
Dennis believes you’re more interesting if you post 46 comments in a single thread.
“None of which answers the question as to why so many incidents involving child pornography were not looked into.”
My guess is a lot of them weren’t “child pornography” by the strict legal definition of the term, but rather the usual porn provider trick of using actresses that look younger. Or hentai – cartoon depictions of underage sex.
If no actual underage children are harmed, then is it really child pornography? Moral nitwits can’t tell the difference, report their colleagues to the boss, and you get to “250 cases” very quickly. More savvy investigators just ignore the nitwit and focus on the cases that actually cross the line. The only real issue in most cases is the use of company equipment for non-company purposes.
“Child pornography” is the 21st century version of accusing someone of being a communist or a witch. A quick way to destroy someone’s life in a way that is difficult to defend against. The law requires a higher standard than “she looks young”, which is why so few cases actually go to trial.
Dennis believes you’re more interesting if you post 46 comments in a single thread.
Quality, not quantity.
Dennis believes you’re more interesting if you post 46 comments in a single thread.
Quality, not quantity.– Little timmy and Downtown R Brown
In all likelihood 45 of the 46 posts were responses to commenters who obviously thought my previous thoughts were interesting enough to be worthy of challenge. Maybe you guys will get there some day.
Folks, according to a call I got from someone identifying themself as Dennis, he just posts here to mess with people, and he was very disappointed that I stood by my decision not to respond to him a while back.
“Don’t feed the troll” is hard, but I’ve done it, and to quote Steven Colbert, “You can too!”.
You’re confusing productive debate with obsessive compulsive masochism, Dennis. Most of us don’t have that ambition.
Most of us don’t have that ambition.
Actually, and to the contrary, that’s just not true, Little timmy. Most of you do have that obsessive compulsive masochism. Take Sarah Palin for example. She’s led the revival of what is likely to turn out to be one of the greatest political comebacks for either party ever, and much to your dismay, you guys deserve a lot of the credit for it. You’re carping on her incessantly has only made her more popular and stronger. And no matter, you couldn’t stop doing it even if Barack Obama himself said it was killing the Democratic brand, which it most certainly is. You’re simply not able to. And take as a second, less obvious example in the weasel DA here. He admits it’s hard not to respond to me?? WTF? How hard could that possible be? He announces like it the’s opening declaration when it’s his turn to speak at an AA meeting. “Hello, my name is Dark Avenger, no, no, please don’t laugh, it’s my real name, seriously, it is,….and it’s been three weeks since I’ve responded to a guy on a blog named Dennis.”
Yeesh.
Believing in the AA model of ‘recovery’ is like believing in the phlogiston theory of combustion, Dennis:
We now return to our regular troll ignoring, still in progress.
It’s hard to take a lecture about obsessiveness from a guy worried about penis bandits seriously.
Five Dennis comments. Not a single one having anything to do with the topic. Burned on every one. Yet back for more.
Obsessive. Compulsive. Masochism.
Why Did The Bush-Era Pentagon Ignore Child Porn Purchases By Defense Dept. Employees?
Leave it to Oliver to add the all to predictable partisan spin to the story. Apparently adding the Booooosssshhh! label makes an already bad story even worse.
Here’s another (and equally valid) way to word the headline:
“Why Does The Obama-Era Pentagon Continue To Ignore Child Porn Purchases By Defense Dept. Employees Identified Under A Prior Administration?”
I’d really like to know.