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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.

Courtesy of The Free Thought Project
I need to see this from an additional source. Don't know the dcclothesline.com
You need to learn how to use a computer, then.
I worked for a DOE contractor and they had a zero tolerance policy when it came to any porn. You do it and you are fired the moment they catch you. These folks (if true) need to go down the road.
FAKE NEWS
Looks like things have changed Craig.

https://thehill.com/policy/technolo...ined-to-investigate-child-porn-purchases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWOZjVK9HM

http://archive.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/01/05/pentagon_lagged_on_pursuing_porn_cases/

It doesn't show in the link, but the Hill's headline and report tells how the Pentagon DECLINED from investigating this. Deep State, much?

America needs a restart.

Originally Posted by Reloder28
FAKE NEWS


I wish it was. But it's not.

Oh, and did you even take a look to see if this was really a "thing" or not?

If not, your the type the enables this kind of thing, or is just plain stupid. .
Originally Posted by RickyD
Looks like things have changed Craig.

https://thehill.com/policy/technolo...ined-to-investigate-child-porn-purchases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWOZjVK9HM

http://archive.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/01/05/pentagon_lagged_on_pursuing_porn_cases/

It doesn't show in the link, but the Hill's headline and report tells how the Pentagon DECLINED from investigating this. Deep State, much?

America needs a restart.




All of those links are outdated by several years - it's still zero tolerance policy, and has been much easier to enforce with the advances in server monitoring these days.

It's not fake news, but it's skewed towards the Pentagon - a "DoD affiliate" is much larger than than the 25K employees in the building daily.

That would be 1 in 5 guilty - no, that's not the case - I'm sure there's a few, there usually is in any Govt work force.

These investigations do not get swept away as the article implies, they will catch up with the guilty in the end.
Originally Posted by AH64guy
Originally Posted by RickyD
Looks like things have changed Craig.

https://thehill.com/policy/technolo...ined-to-investigate-child-porn-purchases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWOZjVK9HM

http://archive.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/01/05/pentagon_lagged_on_pursuing_porn_cases/

It doesn't show in the link, but the Hill's headline and report tells how the Pentagon DECLINED from investigating this. Deep State, much?

America needs a restart.




All of those links are outdated by several years - it's still zero tolerance policy, and has been much easier to enforce with the advances in server monitoring these days.

It's not fake news, but it's skewed towards the Pentagon - a "DoD affiliate" is much larger than than the 25K employees in the building daily.

That would be 1 in 5 guilty - no, that's not the case - I'm sure there's a few, there usually is in any Govt work force.

These investigations do not get swept away as the article implies, they will catch up with the guilty in the end.

No, the link I put up first is dated July18, 2019. That's today.

That other links are dated earlier, just says how much the Pentagon and other depts have drug their feet on this. I wonder why? Most likely, because higher ups are also involved.

From the July 18, 2019 article:

"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 — "

Originally Posted by RickyD

This investigation identified over 5,000 individuals, including many affiliated with DOD, who were subscribed to child porn websites.




The fact that they were affiliated with the DOD does not mean that they were viewing child porn on the official network. It just just means they were affiliated with DOD.

I know on Army computers porn would of got you hemmed up quicker then just about anything.

The Free Thought Project who wrote that article does a pretty good good job of insinuating that they were viewing child porn on DOD computers. Take a look at some of their other articles, IMO they are nothing but another propaganda outfit.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com

Quit arguing and go to the source.

https://meadows.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3049

dodgefan seems to have it about right; it seems to be an actual problem, but not as widespread as the op's original article suggests.
Almost sounds like they were using government issued phones.

I don't know anything about checking what phone users are downloading/uploading.

I do know hard wired computers at the workplace were on a network with an IT department that did all the monitoring/problem fixing.
In my day anyone caught looking at child porn was fired and prosecuted especially on government computers.
Just sending someone a picture of a gal in a bikini was frowned upon when I was in.
That's pretty funny how they slipped in that apology for illegal drug trafficking. Porn & drug traffickers need to be executed.
Two words: chemical castration.

Seriously.
Originally Posted by Thegman
Quit arguing and go to the source.

https://meadows.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3049

dodgefan seems to have it about right; it seems to be an actual problem, but not as widespread as the op's original article suggests.

Originally Posted by Thegman
Quit arguing and go to the source.

https://meadows.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3049

dodgefan seems to have it about right; it seems to be an actual problem, but not as widespread as the op's original article suggests.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Mark Meadows (R-NC-11) led the introduction of bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would help the Department of Defense (DoD) stop the use of its internet network to possess, procure, or produce child pornography – the END Network Abuse Act.

In the course of a national investigation—titled Project Flicker, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified over 5,000 individuals who subscribed to child pornography websites, including several DoD-affiliated individuals. This discovery prompted an inquiry by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, which in turn identified hundreds of DoD-affiliated individuals as suspects in these child pornography cases. While only 20 percent of these individuals were investigated, of the cases investigated, several of the individuals were found to be using their government devices to download or share said pornographic material.

Show me where this article is different than what I posted. This is saying over 5,000 of government employees had subscribed to child porn sites, and of those hundreds of Dod affiliated employees were suspects but only 20% investigated (why??? because of who they are?) and of those some were downloading on govt devices and sharing with others. That is what the article I posted says, too.
Originally Posted by dodgefan
Just sending someone a picture of a gal in a bikini was frowned upon when I was in.
It hasn't changed much from what i've seen, porn is a huge no-no in the DOD.
Pushing the end of the "war on drugs" more than kills any credibility the author had in my eyes.
Just the entrenched Obama appointees getting rid of the last decent folks at DOD with fake Porn accusations
Originally Posted by efw
Two words: chemical castration.

Seriously.

One word: castration.
Seriously !
Originally Posted by RickyD
You need to learn how to use a computer, then.

And you need to learn some manners.
This seems like another case of the guilty accusing the accusers of what they themselves are accused - ala Alinsky methods. After all now it is Trumps DoD.

Not long ago I found impressive showing a huge increase in worldwide trafficking arrests after Trump was elected. When I searched today all I see is msm saying Trump is stopping arrests etc.... Friggin' swamp needs real draining.


Anyone have the real stats over the past few years? I have seen a lot of international coordination on this which gets me cheering.
Originally Posted by OSU_Sig
Originally Posted by RickyD
You need to learn how to use a computer, then.

And you need to learn some manners.



grin
What tipped me so that its "100's of people"watching not just porn but child porn....it's mathematically unlikely.
If Congress would pass legislation making it as easy to fire Federal employees as the private sector, we could really get a handle on this problem, and a myriad of others.

That's what Trump discovered when he took office and found out how damned near impossible it is to fire civilian federal employees, particularly those in and around D.C..

This is the real issue behind having to pass laws like the one just proposed.


JMHO,

Ed
I find this unbelievable! I work for one of the largest military contractors on the planet and we can't get to social media sites, personal email, youtube, let alone porn sites. It's all blocked by our IT department. They should be firing their IT people along with all the scum watching this crap.
My exact thought.......... What the hell is the IT dept. doing ????..... Normally in any large organization, be it government or private sector, they have filters or some kind of blocking procedures so that their employees can't even think about doing stuff like that at work. If this is true there are some IT folks that have a lot of explaining to do.
IT loves to beat their chests until schit doesn’t work, then it’s operator error.
Originally Posted by RickyD
Originally Posted by Thegman
Quit arguing and go to the source.

https://meadows.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3049

dodgefan seems to have it about right; it seems to be an actual problem, but not as widespread as the op's original article suggests.

Originally Posted by Thegman
Quit arguing and go to the source.

https://meadows.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3049

dodgefan seems to have it about right; it seems to be an actual problem, but not as widespread as the op's original article suggests.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Mark Meadows (R-NC-11) led the introduction of bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would help the Department of Defense (DoD) stop the use of its internet network to possess, procure, or produce child pornography – the END Network Abuse Act.

In the course of a national investigation—titled Project Flicker, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified over 5,000 individuals who subscribed to child pornography websites, including several DoD-affiliated individuals. This discovery prompted an inquiry by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, which in turn identified hundreds of DoD-affiliated individuals as suspects in these child pornography cases. While only 20 percent of these individuals were investigated, of the cases investigated, several of the individuals were found to be using their government devices to download or share said pornographic material.

Show me where this article is different than what I posted. This is saying over 5,000 of government employees had subscribed to child porn sites, and of those hundreds of Dod affiliated employees were suspects but only 20% investigated (why??? because of who they are?) and of those some were downloading on govt devices and sharing with others. That is what the article I posted says, too.


Maybe I'm reading this incorrectly, but the middle paragraph above states:

1. "...identified 5000 -individuals- (does not specify "government employees") -including several- (as in a few, like 3-7) -affiliated- with DOD ( not direct employees of DOD)

2. Then, "identified hundreds of DoD -affiliated- individuals as suspects". 20% of suspects were investigated. 20% of "hundreds" is likely over 100. Of these, "several were found to be..." guilty. I assume several again means a few.

To be clear, I'm not trying to make excuses for anyone involved in any way with child pornography, and would go beyond castration as to suggesting they be eliminated entirely from the planet. That said, fortunately, this (real) problem doesn't seem to go as far as the original article suggests.
Originally Posted by APDDSN0864
If Congress would pass legislation making it as easy to fire Federal employees as the private sector, we could really get a handle on this problem, and a myriad of others.

That's what Trump discovered when he took office and found out how damned near impossible it is to fire civilian federal employees, particularly those in and around D.C..

This is the real issue behind having to pass laws like the one just proposed.


JMHO,

Ed
You don't have to pass anything. There is NO job in America where they cannot fire you straight out of hand for this [bleep].
Washington is a snake pit full of vipers!
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