Report: Pentagon Declined to Probe Hundreds of Child Porn Purchases

I believe that the reason the Pentagon is not too concerned about the porn situation is because so many in the top echelon are generally perverted to begin with. Those who can condone wanton killing of women, children, and innocent civilians possess a lack of empathy and callousness that can only be considered perversion by normal people. The transition from the perversion of death to the perversion child porn is probably not much of a jump for most of them.

I worked for the Sheriff's Office in my county for over 20 years. In a position I held within the office, I was required to make several online purchases a month using a county credit card assigned to my name. At the end of each month I had to submit a statement of charges explaining each purchase on my bill. Often these charges were just a series of numbers that I would have to identify by date ordered, and amount charged. One month I encountered a number of charges totaling over one thousand dollars that I could not cross reference to orders I had placed. When I investigated these charges, I discovered they were for a "centralized" billing service for the purchase of porn. I provided this information to our departments "high tech crime" unit for investigation. The centralized billing service refused to cooperate, and would provide no information. Our dept had no legal resource to compel their cooperation, as the billing service did not contest the disputed charges. People who produce, distribute, or view child porn should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law (and now that I am retired, I will add "punished" appropriately), but investigating this murky world is not easy.

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Child pornography. It is wrong. No child should be associated with useless entertainment. What we have here, more than anything, is a psycho-sexual curiosity that has gone too far and is beginning to affect those who do not care to view it. A person who watches porn is often taken by surprise of images flashing on the screen of children who are posed as sexual images. The viewer can't help this, but that viewer can be arrested for having seen this. It is usually kept on the hard drive. So, it can be traced regardless of the viewer's intention. It is time for all to be brought to task for this and not just those people who can't afford the law suit. Maybe the Supreme Court can have a better chance at it if someone has the money to plead something besides--nolo contendere.

And people aren't appalled by this? Paris Hilton's drug bust got more attention...very sad that in this country child porn is lower on the list than all the hollywood dribble. Wonder if everyone would feel nothing if it was their own child in the photos? Disgusting. Every single on of the people who had child porn on their computers should be sentenced and tried and fired from their jobs. I'd love to see a published list of these names.

I hope a court order is necessary before a bank or paypal turns over private information to government agencies.

1. The investigation turned up the names of more than 5,000 individuals who made the porn purchases. 2.ICE turned over to the Pentagon more than 250 names of people who provided military e-mail addresses or physical addresses with Army or fleet ZIP codes when they purchased the illicit images. 3.and just 10 were ever charged with viewing or purchasing child pornography. Hey how about that! Our governmet in action, that leaves around 4,990 government employees enjoying child porn at work and being paid for it!!

The government is very selective in prosecuting child porn cases. They choose to prosecute only the most hard core criminals. That would be a teenager who has a nude/seminude photo of theirself or their boyfriend/girlfriend.

You'd think this would be part of the terms of employment for federal workers and dismissing someone for evidence would be clear. At least suspend without pay and benefits while an investigation is going on. Anyone with the defense that someone must of hacked their computer while they were away from their desk is a security risk in itself as the guidelines should strictly detail your responsibility to protect your PC (government property) in your care. It only takes a second to password enable a pc when you step away from your desk and at minimum have and auto screen requiring password to get back in. Anyone that can't deal with that should be given the opportunity to work at a place more fit for their capability. (Perhaps a greeter at Wal-Mart

What happened to everyone else that bought the porn? They were prosecuted and sentenced right? So what's the hold up? And why are people that endangered Our National Security not even being investigated let alone fired and put in REAL prision. (of course, with what they know...they probably can't go to REAL prision)