CONGRESS TAKES AIM AT PENTAGON PORN TRAFFIC

    For a long time now, we've argued that the Pentagon is one of the Beltway's most obnoxious Swamps in serious need of draining. Progress on this front has been very slow, for two main reasons. The first is that many Conservatives have the same attitude toward the Military as Liberals have toward Public Education: that it's an institution above reproach and hence it fails to fall under very little public scrutiny. The second is that the Military was especially loathed by post-Reagan Era Deep State Liberals and Neocons; and this group introduced a culture of corruption and Political Correctness into the DoD which is deeply entrenched now because of the Pentagon's rigid structure of authority. Military bureaucracies are by their very nature more difficult to manage than their civilian counterparts.

   But recently a bipartisan Bill was introduced into Congress exposing the incredible level of child porn traffic inside the DoD.  The End Network Abuse Act is designed to do what RINOs like James Mattis refused to do and break up such networks within the Pentagon. The Bill is co-sponsored by Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger and North Carolina Republican Mark Meadows. 

   Congresswoman Spanberger said a press conference yesterday that: “Sexual abuse and the sexual exploitation of children are horrific crimes, and we should pursue all avenues to combat these crimes, eliminate images of exploitation from the internet, and prosecute those who traffic in these images. 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. As a former federal agent who worked child exploitation and child pornography cases, I recognize the need to improve the training available to those responsible for bringing perpetrators to justice."

  Well, indeed! The National Criminal Justice Training Program learned in 2018 that Pentagon-based IP Addresses rank in the Top 20 originating sources of Child Porn traffic worldwide. As Congressman Meadows stated at the same press conference, this is a completely inexcusable situation. It's estimated that over 5,000 Pentagon employees may be involved in these rings. 

  However, this investigation should go much further and also punish---in some way---the officials who knew about this problem and did nothing. This isn't an issue that Pentagon officials just learned about yesterday: Federal agencies investigating child porn traffic have been notifying the DoD of their suspicions since late in the Bush Junior Administration and during the entire course of the Obama years. It's a national disgrace that our military can't even read battle maps correctly but can operate sophisticated sex networks with no problem. The fact that even Congress can unify on this issue illustrates how serious it is.

  With the 4th of July holiday coming up, politicians will be at many events making speeches. Be sure to bring this Bill up at these speeches and get your Congressman or Senator on board.