I Finally Connected the Dots... Why is Porn a Top Priority for Gonzales???

[Peter Frank]

With all the huge international and internal issues facing America -- why would our Attorney General make internet porn a top priority?

When FBI supervisors in Miami met with new interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta last month, they wondered what the top enforcement priority for Acosta and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be.

Would it be terrorism? Organized crime? Narcotics trafficking? Immigration? Or maybe public corruption?

The agents were stunned to learn that a top prosecutorial priority of Acosta and the Department of Justice was none of the above. Instead, Acosta told them, it's obscenity. Not pornography involving children, but pornographic material featuring consenting adults.<snip>

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1125318960389

And there's this:

Recruits Sought for Porn Squad
By Barton GellmanWashington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; Page 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."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901570.html

Still confused? Well, so was I until I saw this (thank you Newsjock for your LBN post -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2050453):

Feds want Google search records...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2050453

How clear does this have to become? Under the ruse of checking pornography, this administration is attempting to gain control of the internet.

[spooked]

1. Here's where you CAN see what people are searching for REAL TIME

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/results.htm?fci=1?filter=0&qcat=web

It's the SearchSpy feature at www.dogpile.com

You can "watch" people's "filtered" or "unfiltered" search terms.

BEWARE...this link is to the UNFILTERED version.

[FloridaPat]

2. The repubs seem to have a big problem with sex. Just look at

their desire to get rid of abortions, but no desire to help people with children. Porn is something everyone is against. However, there is no real definition of it because the Consitition allows free speech.

[mongo]

5. Porn is NOT something EVERYONE is against

Millions of healthy responsible adults enjoy adult entertainment.

[yardwork]

3. This is absolutely about spying on people

and using the evidence to put people away with no record of where they've been imprisoned, no attorney, no charges, no habeus corpus.

This is about fascism.

[0007]

4. How can anyone keep all this stuff straight?

Karl is spitting out new plays by the minute.

[mattclearing]

6. Perhaps, but this is a longtime mission of the FBI.

If you see the documentary "Inside Deep Throat" (Excellent, by the way, and Netflix has the NC-17 version), it features the guy that went after the movie Deep Throat, its actors, and its distribution network, and said that basically, "if terror ever cools down, we'll be able to crack down on porn again."

He's so giddy about it, you can tell he's disappointed by the fact that terrorism has gotten in the way of the real enemy.

It caps the movie, and is hilarious, if a bit disturbing.