Posted on 07/19/2019 10:37:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
The problem of government agents viewing horrific images and videos of child pornography on official Department of Defense computers has gotten so out of hand that bipartisan legislation has been introduced to curb the practice. Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) introduced legislation earlier this month meant to halt the epidemic of government employees viewing and sharing child porn over DOD networks and devices.
According to a report in the Hill, the End National Defense Network Abuse (END Network Abuse) was introduced in the wake of in an investigation called “Project Flicker” carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This investigation identified over 5,000 individuals, including many affiliated with DOD, who were subscribed to child porn websites.
The investigation was conducted by the Pentagon’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service and it netted hundreds of suspects who work for and are affiliated with the DOD.Let that sink in. Hundreds of government employees are using taxpayer funded official DOD networks and computers to view and share child pornography — essentially running a child porn network on a government system.
The epidemic of child pornography has gotten so out of control that these people now feel comfortable enough to use official computers and networks — they know are being monitored, but apparently know they won’t get in trouble — to access and share this horrifying content.
According to the Hill, the END Network Abuse Act would require the Pentagon to enter into agreements with groups including law enforcement, child protection services, social services, and trauma-informed healthcare providers in order to cut down or halt the spread and impact of these images on DOD networks. The bill would also upgrade the training and technical expertise of the military organizations involved in investigating these types of crimes.
Illustrating just how horrific the problem of government-sponsored child porn networks has become, according to the National Criminal Justice Training Center, one of the groups backing the bill, the DOD’s network is ranked 19th out of 3,000 for worst child exploitation networks in the country.
“The notion that the Department of Defense’s network and Pentagon-issued computers may be used to view, create, or circulate such horrifying images is a shameful disgrace, and one we must fight head on,” Spanberger said in statement.
Meadows added that the “peer-to-peer trading of child pornography is an unacceptable practice, and federal agencies cannot allow their networks to become a platform for it.”
The idea that the government has to propose legislation to stop the government from using government resources to share and traffic in child pornography is chilling. However, as TFTP has reported, child predators within the government are anything but rare. Much of it has to do with the priority of funds going to other “crimes” instead of protecting children.
Sadly, the funding for the prevention of child sex trafficking is but a drop in the bucket to the $51 billion spent annually fighting a futile and immoral drug war.
Perhaps, if the US cared more about saving children from exploitation and trafficking, and less about kidnapping, caging, and killing people over arbitrary substances they choose to put into their own bodies, this epidemic level of pedophilia could be curbed.
However, as the Free Thought Project has reported numerous times, and as this recent bill exposes, many of these sickos hold positions of power within high levels of the government. They have an incentive to protect their operation and can do so using the many corrupt pedophiles within law enforcement and government as their minions.
In case after case, the Free Thought Project reports on horrifying instances of child sex rings that were allowed to go on for decades because politicians — including heads of states — policemen, clergy, and others were all in on the sick game.
In fact, as the 2017 Netflix series, The Keepers, set out to launch an investigation into a murder cold case, it soon became much deeper because of the high-level pedophilia it revealed. The story exposed a concerted effort to conceal widespread rape and sexual abuse committed by Keough school chaplain and counselor Father Joseph Maskell, as well as other clergy, police, and a local gynecologist.
On multiple occasions, the Free Thought Project has reported interviews of former child sex trafficking victims who’ve all noted that they had nowhere to go as police and high-level politicians all took place in the abuse.
Hopefully, as the government’s war on drugs continues to crumble, people will wake up to the fact that rescuing a child from a rapist is far more important than catching some dude smoking a plant. Hopefully.
House bill targets use of Pentagon networks for child pornography:
They don’t need more legislation! Those people need to be in jail!
Child porn is already very illegal. Why not arrest these people rather than squawking about new laws???
They all need to fired.
“Child porn is already very illegal. Why not arrest these people rather than squawking about new laws???”
This is their way of showing how concerned they are and kicking the can down the road.
“And now it’s a Monster that will not obey...”
“Research”. This is also known as “running with the hounds”.
Well, it makes sense. You can ask for the records as evidence, and in many cases they can say, “It’s been classified, and is on a classified computer.”
PT is the speed bump. The Monster figures it has either 2 or 6 years to meander and pillage before it can go forth and totally destroy America. Protect Your Children.
Oh my gosh, we area sick, sick society. How utterly disgusting on so many levels.
Did the Obama DoD ever look into this? Just askin’.
“the epidemic of government employees viewing and sharing child porn over DOD networks and devices.”
Trump needs an Executive Order: Anyone viewing Child Porn on a government computer will be fired, lose retirement benefit, and be prosecuted.
“the epidemic of government employees viewing and sharing child porn over DOD networks and devices.”
Trump needs an Executive Order: Anyone viewing Child Porn on a government computer will be fired, lose retirement benefit, and be prosecuted.
so much for our national defense...
the extremist-leftist DimoCraps are forcing our borders to be undefended so that millions of illegals can invade our country (including Mexican drug gangsters and tons of Muslims from IslamoNazi hellhole dictatorships)
and now our DOD is reveling in child porno while supposedly “working” at the Pentagon
(SorozNazi is winning, beating us.. with all his funding for the DimoCraps, control over the DNC, and undermining of our nation’s Judeo=Christian moral values. And we heard he lied on his immigration so that we COULD be rid of him, except nobody will investigate or prosecute him ..he can just buy everyone off??)
Why no prosecutions???????
Must be the perps enjoy some sort of immunity, either as a matter of statutory law, or prosecutorial discretion.
If the perps identified here are beneficiaries of prosecutorial disrection, the new law will DIRECTLY remove that hazard, and substitute administrative penalities for crimes.
When the government feigns outrage at government conduct, the eventual outcome is more immunity for government. There are many examples of this, with toothless penalties being put into law to mollify the public.
An order would still have to be enforced, and some gay judge will put a stay on it.
There is existing law that can be enforced.
Cancer continues to consume the US government.
What.
The.
Mother.
Cluck.
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