From: "Mark" 



I'll kill two with one. Rich: Can they stop it if the congress directed it?
Wouldn't congress have to kill it?

"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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> Nah
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> Just the Republicans 
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> 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
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>>> 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/AR200509190
1570_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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