Ice, Ice, baby...Porn found on Ice chief's computer.

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Four child-porn images allegedly found on ICE chief's home computer

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for South Florida has been placed on paid administrative leave, as federal agents investigate four images of child pornography he allegedly received on his home computer via an AOL e-mail account, according to sources familiar with the probe.

Broward Sheriff's Office and FBI investigators seized Anthony V. Mangione's computer from his Parkland residence Saturday after obtaining a search warrant based on an alert from AOL, Mangione's Internet service provider. Sources said Mangione, 50, who has headed the ICE regional office since 2007, was not believed to have received the pictures in connection with any ICE investigation.

The Justice Department probe could take a while to complete as investigators determine whether Mangione sent, received or distributed illegal digital images of children. "It's going to take some time forensically to examine the computer," a federal law enforcement official said.

AOL, which monitors the distribution of child pornography by its users, alerted a national nonprofit resource center about the images allegedly sent to Mangione's computer in recent weeks, sources said. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children then forwarded the information to a multi-agency task force that investigates child-porn distribution over the Internet.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/mh-ice-mangione-porn-20110412,0,424306.story

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1. So AOL has just admitted to reading everyone's email.

[chrisa]

4. It's probably done by data mining

So, yes, in a way.

[Orrex]

5. IIRC they admitted to doing so about 15 years ago

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6. I suspect they all are.

Was I the only one who caught how our national security after the WTC gave license to truckers and other services to keep their eyes open for anything suspicious? Wouldn't you think this was a gateway to more bad practices? Imagine if they gave liberties to the phone companies to monitor our calls. Oops, the did. Imagine if the Republicans just continued, extending this to where we are today where the Chamber of Commerce now sends people out to hack computers?

Worse, imagine if the FBI knows about it and is just allowing it? Is it no wonder that many of us feel like second class citizens and this American Dream that everyone else talks about isn't something that we feel we have a right to?

[nc4bo]

2. Two problems here. #1 is the animal who gets off on child porn

and a government official makes it so much worse BUT the #2 problem is AOL reads your email?

Let me finish reading this article.

Investigators issued a subpoena to AOL to find out the identity and computer address of the account user who allegedly received the four images, sources said. The information provided the legal basis for the FBI to obtain the search warrant to enter Mangione's home and seize his computer. Authorities also have seized his computer from ICE's office in west Miami-Dade.

"Internet service providers, including AOL, are required by federal law to report apparent violations of the child pornography laws to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which works with the Department of Justice," said former Miami federal prosecutor Ryan Stumphauzer. In 2007, he won the conviction of a Biscayne Park man for producing and distributing child-porn over the Internet.

"To comply with this obligation, AOL and other Internet service providers use sophisticated software to detect suspected child pornography images based upon their unique digital fingerprints," Stumphauzer said.

So it's not just AOL it's ALL ISPs.

G'damn. There are some things that humankink does that are so inconceivably horrible that the offender(s) should be caught, prosecuted and punished but look how much we all lose in the process.

What's the difference between the U.S. and a country like China again? I forgot.

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7. If it's a computer that only he uses, and there's a password, he's done.

No worries.

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3. People still use AOL? I figured they had gone the way of the buggy whip by now...

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8. RepubliCorp (AOL Division) lives on

Alas for honorable & intelligent Americans.

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9. Do you think they pulled in Huffington Post to attempt to draw in

lefties into their net?