US State Security workers tied to child porn

[Ed Jewett]

Most Pentagon Child Porn Collectors Given Free Pass

23rd January 2011

" … Pentagon officials now claim they lack the manpower to continue the probe, but Trueman a former Department of Justice prosecutor does not buy that because resources outside the Pentagon, such as the FBI, could be called in for help. … "

Gov't porn users' let off the hook

By Charlie Butts
OneNewsNow | January 20, 2011

Pentagon employees who view child pornography continue to operate without the prospect of investigation, even though several of them used military e-mail address as part of their payment information.
Upon discovering that 264 Pentagon employees or contractors had downloaded child pornography, only 70 workers were investigated, including nine who had top security clearances. But the Department of Defense has failed to explain the lack of further action. So Pat Trueman, CEO of Morality in Media, tells OneNewsNow it is imperative to conduct the probe "because if someone is a collector of child pornography, they are subject to blackmail by those who want material that the Pentagon might have and we know various spy agencies from other countries have used tactics like this."
Trueman also points out that a credibility issue arises if Pentagon violators are not prosecuted.
"What you have is the federal government enforcing very strictly the child pornography law on others in society. But if it's the federal employees themselves [who have violated the law], the federal government [doesn't] seem to take it very seriously," he laments. "Doesn't the law apply equally to people in federal government as well as common citizens?"
Pentagon officials now claim they lack the manpower to continue the probe, but Trueman a former Department of Justice prosecutor does not buy that because resources outside the Pentagon, such as the FBI, could be called in for help.
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[Jan Klimkowski]

Upon discovering that 264 Pentagon employees or contractors had downloaded child pornography, only 70 workers were investigated, including nine who had top security clearances.

(snip)

Pentagon officials now claim they lack the manpower to continue the probe

It seems there's a lot of crime that the forces of law and order are currently failing to investigate - eg Murdoch empire hacking of politicians' phones.

It feels like there's a message about who's really running things in there... :mistress:

[David Guyatt]

Upon discovering that 264 Pentagon employees or contractors had downloaded child pornography, only 70 workers were investigated, including nine who had top security clearances.

(snip)

Pentagon officials now claim they lack the manpower to continue the probe

It seems there's a lot of crime that the forces of law and order are currently failing to investigate - eg Murdoch empire hacking of politicians' phones.

It feels like there's a message about who's really running things in there... :mistress:

I agree entirely. The "lack" of "manpower to continue the probe" shouts "couldn't care less", and is a classic example of paedo cover-up imo.

[Ed Jewett]

A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.

Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.

Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail.

Although the case was unsealed Thursday, neither the indictment nor the news release mentioned Gordon's job searching airline passengers for TSA.

The arrest comes as TSA grapples with several other incidents involving screeners, including a YouTube video posted last week by parents angry about the pat-down their 6-year-old daughter received at an airport in New Orleans. TSA officials said the pat-down was proper; the parents said the girl was "groped."

Citing privacy rules, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis would not say if Gordon has been suspended from his job, but noted that he had been in federal custody since his arrest.

"We can assure the public that he is no longer working at the airport," Davis said.

Gordon began working as a TSA screener at the Philadelphia airport in December 2005, Davis said. The airport has 900 screeners, she said.

If convicted of the child pornography charges, Gordon, 46, faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years. The maximum prison term is 250 years and the top fine is $3.2 million.

Read More: http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-23/ne...ral-agents

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[Magda Hassan]

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