Child pornography in The Pentagon.

[Zykon TheLich]

Does anyone have an actual real news link about this?

FFS, 5 posts above I link the actual US DoD investigation:

Well seeing as these guys have it reported as well:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkpoint-washington/2010/07/boston_globe_pentagon_workers.html
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/07/23/pentagon_workers_tied_to_child_porn/

And you can DL a Department of Defense statement on it from here:
http://www.dodig.mil/pressroom.htm

It's 94 pages, pretty comprehensive

[EDIT: Holy poop, I stand corrected, it's the DoD's write up of their own investigation, lots of it is redacted but there is a lot of info in there...it names names, only a couple...]

(operation Flicker, 1st DL)

As the dude above me says...5000 suspects, not 5000 actually guilty, and only a few of those will be from the military etc.

And if you read that report you will know exactly how many were from the military and what sentences they got.

 

[yoyo13rom]

And the moral of the story is:Join the Army! We've got child pornography and cookies, and we are morally ambiguous! Join us, it's fun for everyone to abuse power and pretend to defend others, while actually ding horrible immoral things!

I'm sorry I just don't know what came over me *blushes*.

 

[menamebephil]

This sounds so made up. I mean it really does sound made up. I know that it's reported in the Huffington Post, which last I checked was not staffed by trolls, but...

Jesus Christ that's hilariously terrible.

 

[menamebephil]

And the moral of the story is:Join the Army! We've got child pornography and cookies, and we are morally ambiguous! Join us, it's fun for everyone to abuse power and pretend to defend others, while actually ding horrible immoral things!

But not if you're gay! We won't stand for that sort of thing, you know. We have standards, after all.

 

[Bernzz]

Well, that's fucked up. Once the initial shock faded, I'm not all that surprised. Don't ask why, because I don't know why. I'm just...not all that surprised.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

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............................................................................These five thousand people that got busted from this are the very same people that are in charge of the military? The US military? And this has been going on for ten fucking years completely undetected?

Where in the name of the mighty N. Tesla are these bloody tax dollars we spend on the FBI going? Mass-Hummer convoys going across the desert with all fuel-guzzling utilities active?

EDIT:

Many of those who were caught with the child porn were convicted and served prison terms as well as paid fines. However, some of those who were identified were not prosecuted.

Liberty and justice for all my ass.

Don't bother quoting me unless you are up for conversation and can type more than two sentences at a time. None of this "lol u suk" shit.

I'm wondering if some of the FBI people found out but were bribed.

Hmm, more than two sentences...

Would it be the NSA or FBI that monitors this? Maybe even CIA?

Or is the Pentagon supposed to monitor itself?

 

[dot com]

TACTICAL EPIC GROUP FACEPALM! ALL TOGETHER NOW!

Got you covered.

Damn, beat me to it.

 

[MetalGenocide]

People in "high" places are usually into that stuff, and they run it. Like the UN.
I won't be surprised if one day they legalize it.

 

[Treblaine]

Thats like going up to a member of an Islamic Terroist group, and he or she saying "I won't bomb anything anymore but I still hate the Western world and hope to see it burn" you wouldn't trust him at all. Even if they haven't done anything yet.

Ironic you say that as the DoD in fact DOES have to work with people like that in Iraq and Afghanistan to secure any kind of peaceful settlement. People who are convinced to a ceasefire or to fight against other elements to spite their anger and prejudice against Western forces.

Even so I would keep a watchful other them, I wouldn't trust them.

Anyway, lets call this off, you have your opinion, I have mine. You seem to have the ability to trust your kid with a paedophile, I don't. Lets leave it at that. Its a free world were entitled to an opinion, I bid you good day.

Than you for the amicable response.

But I'd like to clarify there is a difference between admitting that we can't just kill all the terrorist/paedophiles/undesirables so may have to make comprimises... and being OK with my close relatives going on unaccompanied camping holidays with them. Again, it is not black and white, it is not one or the other.

 

[Thedayrecker]

As terrible as this is, I have to say...

This has been one of my favorite Escapist threads of all time thanks to picture such as

Got you covered.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I call bullshit.
5000 people in what is probably the most secure building in the world were watching and buying childporn, no-one found out and now that someone knows, it's NOT all over mainstream news? come off it...
double check please? Never heard of that website and I don't really trust them. though it DOES prove that any idiot can write something down and there's always someone who'll believe it...

Maybe all their monitoring devices were being used on the elderly couple that owns a bakery. Then again they were talking about yellow cake....

 

[Mantonio]

Not that I approve of the thing in question, but I'd like to play Devils Advocate here and remind people that paedophiles are people with a serious mental disorder, rather than baby-eating (and presumably baby-copulating), Satan-worshipping beings of pure evil.

Even if if turns out that they weren't working to take down CP rings or something like that, and are actual paedophiles, let's not turn into a lynch mob. Or even worse, push forward plans for things like 'No sex offender within 2000 yards of certain areas' laws, which actually end up doing far more harm than good.

No seriously, calm the FUCK down. Especially you, guy calling for people to be hanged! What the hell are you thinking?

 

[Alar]

Not that I approve of the thing in question, but I'd like to play Devils Advocate here and remind people that paedophiles are people with a serious mental disorder, rather than baby-eating (and presumably baby-copulating), Satan-worshipping beings of pure evil.

Even if if turns out that they weren't working to take down CP rings or something like that, and are actual paedophiles, let's not turn into a lynch mob. Or even worse, push forward plans for things like 'No sex offender within 200 yards of certain areas' laws, which actually end up doing far more harm than good.

No seriously, calm the FUCK down. Especially you, guy calling for people to be hanged! What the hell are you thinking?

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with you here, but how exactly do the 'No sex offender within 200 yards of certain areas' laws cause more harm than good?

 

[Mantonio]

Not that I approve of the thing in question, but I'd like to play Devils Advocate here and remind people that paedophiles are people with a serious mental disorder, rather than baby-eating (and presumably baby-copulating), Satan-worshipping beings of pure evil.

Even if if turns out that they weren't working to take down CP rings or something like that, and are actual paedophiles, let's not turn into a lynch mob. Or even worse, push forward plans for things like 'No sex offender within 200 yards of certain areas' laws, which actually end up doing far more harm than good.

No seriously, calm the FUCK down. Especially you, guy calling for people to be hanged! What the hell are you thinking?

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with you here, but how exactly do the 'No sex offender within 200 yards of certain areas' laws cause more harm than good?

Oops, I mean it to say '2000' yards. But I'm glad you asked! For that, I will refer to our good friend Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_18600_6-laws-that-were-great-paper-and-insane-everywhere-else.html

For those who can't be bothered to check the link (and the backing links within it supplying evidence) I will copy it up here.

If a stampede of pedophiles running rampant through the streets sounds like a nightmare, you might not be sleeping. You might just be in Iowa.

It all seemed like such a great idea on paper: The good legislators of Dubuque, Iowa, in an attempt to keep pedophiles and other degenerates as far away from their children as possible made it illegal for a registered sex offender to live within 2,000 feet of a school. Seems like a no-brainer, right? But then someone remembered that kids also congregated at other places besides schools. There were libraries, daycare centers, swimming pools and parks to think about too. In the end, sex offenders were forbidden to live within a half-mile of any place where adolescents might gather.

How Did it Backfire?

Somebody took a map of Dubuque and drew 4,000-foot diameter circles around every "predator free" landmark in town. They quickly realized that with dozens of overlapping circles covering the entire city, there was literally no place that a sex offender could legally live. Like some alternate-universe version of the Book of Exodus, the county's molesters had no choice but to pack their shit, sing "Let My People Go" and head for the Promised Land. The Promised Land, in this case, being the town of Galena, right across the Mississippi River in Illinois, where no such restrictions were in place.

When the good people of Galena realized that a herd of dudes named Chester was headed for its borders, they in turn passed their own Draconian residency laws. The next town down the line did the same thing, as did the town after that. A frenzied passing of sex offender residency legislation swept across the entire region and now, presumably, there is a tidal wave of homeless child molesters thousands strong that is going to crash into the Atlantic Ocean at any moment.

Iowa lawmakers reluctantly came to understand that while having sexual predators living in your town is not very appealing, knowing where they live is an important part of policing them and making sure they are controlled and accounted for. Once everyone on the sex offender registry became basically homeless, a good number of them went underground and disappeared off the police radar altogether. The end result: Like a sexually deviant remake of Predator, Iowa is now being stalked by legally invisible child molesters scattered throughout the state.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

And I thought we were supposed to trust them...
I'm lost for words

I've got a word for you: Revolution!

[sub]Just kidding, just kidding[/sub]

OT: This is pretty messed up. Aren't the people in that building supposed to be responsible for defending democracy or something like that?

[sub][sub]Just another reason to get started on that bomb shelter[/sub][/sub]

Uh jacking off to under age people does not compromise defending democracy. I do it all the time and that may not count cause im 14 but still.

Thanks for sharing but you haven't inspired me to be confident in their ability to lead the Military.

[sub][sub]*continues to dig*[/sub][/sub]

 

[Rakkana]

Obama? Did you have something to do with this?

This has been going on for over ten years. Someone may have to remind me how long he's been in office, but I don't think his one term started ten years ago x.x

That's what he wants you to think!

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Oh, lay off FOX News. CNN has gotten WAY more laughable.

I don't watch American news, but from what I have learned from such alumni as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is that Fox will automatically take the opposite side than everyone else simply for the controversial ratings.

Nah, people who actually love kids like that such as NAMbLA or crap like that are mentally challenged in my view

What does the National American Marlon Brando Look Alikes have to do with this? (Southpark joke)

Seriously, I bet a few of them are NAMBLA members.