| If these people and the organizations they represent are so concerned about sex trafficking of children then where were these anti-choice extremist when the story broke last September about the 264 employees of the Pentagon who were purchasing and viewing child porn at work, yet DCIS only investigated 52 people, and only 10 were charged, and 212 were never investigated at all! See the story at the end of this post or click the link below to go to it for yourself. These radical right wingers will smear Planned Parenthood for the wrongs of one person, but ignore the decision of the Pentagon to allow known viewers and buyers of child porn to continue working at the Pentagon without fear of prosecution or of even loosing their jobs! Maybe they think military child pornography is OK? I don't know, seems like a crime to me....and one based in facts, not like the campaign designed to destroy Planned Parenthood. So please join in the campaign to defend Planned Parenthood and the work they do for womens health, birth control, and family planning by clicking the links below. http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/03/pentagon-ignores-child-porn-in-its-ranks/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet |
As you may know, extreme anti-choice groups and their allies in Congress are pursuing relentless attacks on Planned Parenthood and the women we serve — New York Times columnist Gail Collins is calling it "The Siege of Planned Parenthood" and that feels unfortunately apt.
Supporters like you are speaking out and standing with us. It is, without a doubt, making us stronger — will you take a moment right now to stand with Planned Parenthood and sign our open letter to state legislatures, Congress, law enforcement and the media?
Anti-abortion extremists secretly recorded staff members at 12 local Planned Parenthood health centers as part of a coordinated campaign to discredit the doctors, nurses, and other staff who devote their lives to protecting women's health. The motivations of the anti-choice group who fabricated a story about a sex-trafficking ring as part of their effort to de-fund Planned Parenthood are reprehensible. But I want to be clear: we have a zero tolerance policy for the kind of behavior displayed by the Planned Parenthood employee in one of these videos. This employee was immediately suspended, and then terminated, as soon as we were aware of her actions.
We are fully committed to upholding the highest ethical standards, and above all to delivering high-quality reproductive health care to the women of our communities. By standing with us in the face of relentless attacks from the anti-choice fringe, you help make that possible. Thank you for your support, and for taking a moment now to sign our open letter.
Sincerely,
Cecile
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Pentagon Ignores Child Porn in its Ranks 3AUG10
“Due to DCIS headquarters’ direction and other DCIS investigative priorities, this investigation is cancelled.”
John Cook reports for Yahoo News that the Pentagon unearthed the names of more than 250 DoD personnel who had purchased child pornography online, but declined to investigate more than a handful. The purchases were uncovered in a larger civilian investigation conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). An investigative arm of the DoD then cross-checked the names against military databases to generate the list of Defense Department employees.
But according to Cook, the agency “opened investigations into only 20 percent of the individuals identified, and succeeded in prosecuting just a handful.” A total of 264 DoD staff were identified, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Cook writes:
Astonishingly, nine of those had “Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information” security clearances, meaning they had access to the nation’s most sensitive secrets. All told, 76 of the individuals had Secret or higher clearances. But DCIS investigated only 52 of the suspects, and just 10 were ever charged with viewing or purchasing child pornography…A source familiar with the investigation, who was granted anonymity to discuss the details, said that the Pentagon’s investigative unit was focused on contractor fraud and didn’t have the resources to pursue cases unrelated to its core mission. “We were stuck in a situation where we had some great information, but didn’t have the resources to run with it,” the source told Cook. Many of the investigative reports he obtained end with a similar citation: “Due to DCIS headquarters’ direction and other DCIS investigative priorities, this investigation is cancelled.”
The vast majority of those investigated, including an active-duty lieutenant colonel in the Army and an official in the office of the secretary of defense, were never charged. On top of that, 212 people on ICE’s list were never investigated at all.
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