Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography

[BlueJac]

Source: US News

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.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100903/us_yblog_upshot/pentagon-declined-to-investigate-hundreds-of-purchases-of-child-pornography

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These people are running our countries defense? Bring them to justice, do not look the other way like always.

[ck4829]

1. If there is a such thing as a risk to national security, then this is it

If a third party were to find out who these purchasers were, then the potentials for extortion reach the sky.

But let's stay focused on stopping that Wikileaks site, that's the REAL threat. :sarcasm:

[urgk]

6. And what a great place to release those names.

Just sayin'.

[Taverner]

24. How do I rec your reply????

[Enthusiast]

2. We should not look forward on this issue. nt

[Frustratedlady]

3. It sounds to me that the Pentagon could use a good housecleaning...

in many ways. This is atrocious!

Sweeping it under the rug is even worse.

[rasputin1952]

4. Sweeping it under the rug gives people who do things like this a...

green light to continue their behavior.

Exploiting a child is beyond the pale...:gr:

[Yeahyeah]

5. So that's what Rumsfeld was doing there on 9-11.

I'm sure it will stay an unknown known or whatever.Let's just move along.

[ensho]

7. kick

nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. That selective process is a National Security problem.

[fascisthunter]

9. I'll Say it Again: We Have Sociopaths in Power

[Odin2005]

19. I was going to post the exact same thing!

:puke:

[Bluenorthwest]

10. This is the same Pentagon that fires

all the gay people? They are accepting of high clearance level child exploiters in their midst, but Lt Dan Choi was not acceptable to them?
This is the definition of the straight community as I see it. The priorities are clear. This was in 2006, but remember, we have to turn the page, and move forward, there were no crimes in the past, only patriots of great straight standing.
Da Vinci said "He who refuses to punish evil commands it to occur."

[Fearless]

11. +1000

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. More Light! Shine more light on the cockroaches. knR for the Thread. n/t

[femrap]

13. The same rich white boyz

making money off the heroin coming in from Afghanistan are making money off the pron. All tax free, of course.

The depths of their evil knows no bounds.

[mbperrin]

14. Don't know why the Pentagon would have to buy child porn - they

produced plenty of it themselves, including the rape of children and snuff action, as well.

Am I down on the Pentagon? Yep.

[Octafish]

15. Child predator Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) was in charge of protecting children.

Eleven GOPers Fingered in Foley Cover-Up

Anyone see a pattern, there? Greedy Oil Perverts.

[dotymed]

16. This is the same kind of insanity

that Sibel Edmonds became a "whistleblower" about.
Now, no one knows about the veracity of those allegations because she has been smeared so badly by the media and the political attack dogs.
Of course, these freaks should have no place in our government except maybe in a privatized jail cell, creating profits for other monsters.
Anyone who thinks that the governments who want an advantage, do not know these individual acts and much more, is naive.
We have an idiotic DADT policy for our gay soldiers, which puts them at jeopardy for bribery. They are not perverted.
These child predators are, yet (of course) the pentagon will not investigate.
If they did investigate, I am sure it would be shockingly disgusting and probably show that some of these monsters are currently being blackmailed or "doing favors" so they can receive some in return.
We have become "cold war Russia", with our entrenched bureaucrats. Regular citizens are screened out with credit reports and often inaccurate background checks from companies like "Choicepoint." I have been their victim, like hundreds of thousands were, during the 2000 elections. Choicepoint has gotten much more powerful since then, through government and business contracts. They're just another "privatized" arm of the large (and lucrative)citizen repression community.

[NashVegas]

17. The Few Who Were Investigated

Probably were the ones who wouldn't be blackmailed into rubber stamp approval. Just a hunch.

[JonBenet Ashcroft]

18. Franklin Scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations

http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Cover-Up-Satanism-Murder-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283651273&sr=8-2

[Poll_Blind]

20. Maybe some of the pedophiles involved were, ya know, "Too big to fail."

I couldn't help but be reminded of Operation Paperclip (I think that was it) which brought in Nazis to help with our ballistic missile program. We were willing to overlook stuff like that. Of course, the scientists probably weren't hardcore nazis...I dunno.

But the point is, it's gotta be somebody's job in the government to review those records, look at that name and go "We are going to investigate them." or "We're not going to investigate them."

I'd like to know who gets that job. Because if someone's paying to see kids sexually abused I'm not so sure I want them anywhere near the workings of anything important. And if they were spared investigation, I have every reason to believe they had their hand in something important for our government.

Man that's fucked.

PB

[BreweryYardRat]

21. My eyebrows feel like they're glued to my hairline.

That is...

...I actually can't find words to express the sheer depth of :wtf: I'm feeling at these results.

[Lurks Often]

22. The article states that ICE was less then cooperative

in cooperating with other law enforcement agencies in investigating this. Why?
Who told ICE not to cooperate? Certainly not the DOD, since they are totally separate agencies. IF, I repeat IF, ICE was told not to pursue this, it would LIKELY have to had been by someone very senior, be it in the Executive Branch or Congress.

[BrightKnight]

23. Were any of the identities stolen?

I have zero tolerance for anything like that but I would want to be very sure that it was what it appeared to be. It seems possible that bright people would not use their real contact information and credit cards for this kind of thing. It is especially odd that many people would do it at the same time.

It should be properly investigated.

[Art_from_Ark]

25. That is a good question

If I remember correctly, that was around the time that lots of private credit card information was being compromised. It could very well have been that a lot of these people were victims of identity theft.