From: "Mark" 

Also from the article: "Congress began funding the obscenity
initiative in fiscal 2005 and specified that the FBI *must* devote 10
agents to adult pornography."

Just in case you planned to blame Bush for it 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:4330725e{at}w3.nls.net...
> Since we've won the war on terror, Afghanistan and Iraq are settled, the
> Gulf Coast is restored - Why not waste limited resources on a war on adult
> porn?
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR20050919015
70_pf.html
>
> Recruits Sought for Porn Squad
>
> By Barton Gellman
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Tuesday, September 20, 2005; A21
>
>
>
> The FBI is joining the Bush administration's War on Porn. And it's looking
> for a few good agents.
>
> Early last month, the 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 and, by extension, of "the Director." That
> would be FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III.
>
> Mischievous commentary began propagating around the water coolers at 601
> Fourth St. NW and its satellites, where the FBI's second-largest field
> office concentrates on national security, high-technology crimes and
> public corruption.
>
> 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."
>
> Among friends and trusted colleagues, an experienced national security
> analyst said, "it's a running joke for us."
>
> A few of the printable samples:
>
> "Things I Don't Want On My R‚sum‚, Volume Four."
>
> "I already gave at home."
>
> "Honestly, most of the guys would have to recuse themselves."
>
> Federal obscenity prosecutions, which have been out of style since
> Attorney General Edwin Meese III in the Reagan administration made
> pornography a signature issue in the 1980s, do "encounter many legal
> issues, including First Amendment claims," the FBI headquarters memo
> noted.
>
> Applicants for the porn squad should therefore have a stomach for the kind
> of material that tends to be most offensive to local juries. Community
> standards -- along with a prurient purpose and absence of artistic
> merit --  define criminal obscenity under current Supreme Court doctrine.
>
>
>
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