Mar 20, 2007

The Porno Plot.

The nation has an article detailing just how the White House's crusade against porn is being used as a reason for some of the fired attorneys.

The Justice Department and the White House offered a scattershot of alibis for firing Charlton. The Bush Administration's case against Charlton rested ultimately on the account of a little-known Justice Department official named Brent Ward, who claimed in a September 20, 2006 e-mail that Charlton was "unwilling to take good cases." Ward's allegation was vague in its claim, mysterious for its submission and vacant in context.


The cases? Prosecuting a porn video place that shipped some (legal) porn across state lines. That's all. Charlton was investigating it too. He had only assigned two people to it, and that was what Ward's complaint was.

Yeah. Oh and how does the FBI feel about being used to investgate instances of legal porn?

Many veterans of the FBI consider Ward's efforts a burden on their ability to fulfill serious departmental priorities. "I guess this means we've won the war on terror," an anonymous FBI agent sarcastically remarked to the Washington Post

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