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-Caveat Lector- Porn activity detected at DHS (maybe)
The Homeland Security Department’s internal computer network generated 65 million security alerts during a three-month period and 6.5 million of those [10%] may be linked to employees accessing pornographic words or materials, according to a report today from DHS inspector general Richard Skinner.
Nearly three-quarters of the automated “security event messages” and “detect.misuse.porn” alerts originated from 16 devices on the department’s wide area network, according to the report. However, DHS could not identify the specific workstations that had generated the messages, the inspector general found.
Under DHS policy, employees are forbidden to access pornographic materials from workstations. However, the “detect.misuse.porn” message may not necessarily indicate pornography, the IG report explains in a footnote.
DHS’ automated network security tools are programmed to look for pornographic keywords such as “oral.” But sometimes alerts are generated when the keywords are embedded in other words, such as in “behavioral,” the report said.
The security warnings are generated automatically by network security tools and are intended to help secure IT systems and detect hacking attempts and viruses.
DHS is not using those tools effectively, the audit found.
The number of security events increased dramatically in the last year. In July 2004, DHS was receiving about 5.4 million messages per month. In February, March and April 2005, the months in which the audit took place, there were 65 million messages, the report said.Now that "everything changed, after 9/11," why is Homeland Security and the FBI diverting resources from defending all Americans against terrorism to preventing American adults from finding FREE sexually-stimulating material on the Internet? See last item posted below on the Bush Administration's "war on porn" (primarily legal adult porn, specifically Internet porn -- NOT, contrary to public claims, JUST illegal kiddie porn).
One really has to wonder if the REAL motive for the Bush family's "War on Porn" is the same as can be inferred from the conduct of its earlier "War on Drugs" ... Like drugs, pornography is also a multi-billion-dollar industry ["kiddie porn" alone reportedly generates $40 billion a year in profits, untaxed!] within an international "underground economy" that includes traditional Bush/CIA/Octopus "hobbies" like money-laundering, "mass-murder for hire," and illegal arms-smuggling and -dealing. Nothing like the US government's global intelligence and international police powers to give one an edge in efforts to eliminate competitors and "corner the market," to absorb "black markets" into the "black budget" available for the funding of possibly even more sinister "black ops" ...
Department of Homeland Perversion
Wayne Madsen Report, April 6, 2006
Doyle wasn't the only child predator. In the Department of Homeland Security deputy Press Secretary Brian Doyle, arrested in Maryland for soliciting sex from a Florida undercover detective posing as a 14-year old girl, had company.
On October 25, 2005, Tampa-based Homeland Security Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Frank Figueroa was arrested at Orlando's Mall at Millenia for exposing himself and masturbating in front of a 16-year old girl. Figueroa used his federal law enforcement badge in an attempt to avoid arrest.
Figueroa had been in charge of the Homeland Security Department's Operation Predator -- designed to curb child sexual exploitation and child pornography.
It is clear that as reported yesterday by WMR, the Bush administration and the GOP are chock full of pedophiles, sexual harassers, male prostitutes and their clients, and others who display anything but so-called "family values." The leadership of the Religious Right are aware of, condone, and in some cases, participate in these sordid activities.
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The news about Doyle broke after Clifton Bennett, the 19-year old son of Arizona's GOP Senate President Ken Bennett, was charged with sodomizing 18 boys who were between the ages of 11 and 14 at an Arizona youth camp. Bennett and a friend were charged with sodomizing the youths with broom sticks and flashlights.
WMR has previously reported that similar abuse of underage teens at Abu Ghraib was videotaped and the tapes were made available to senior White House staff for "entertainment" purposes.
The Taguba Report mentions that prisoners at Abu Ghraib were sodomized by glow sticks.
From WMR, Nov. 18, 2005:
There is good reason for the embarrassment of the Pentagon in the affair. The orders to take the sexually-oriented photos and videos, some of which involve teenage Iraqi boys and girls and sodomization by their guards, came directly from a pedophile and closeted male homosexual ring operating in the White House, according to the intelligence sources.
Copies of the tapes and photos were sent directly to the White House for the entertainment of senior members of the Bush White House, including officials in the Vice President's office and the Executive Office of the President.
When the photos at Abu Ghraib became public, the senior military command structure in Iraq "went nuts," according to an individual who witnessed the cover-up of the affair. "They ordered an immediate policy of denial about details of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib," said the source. The source added that senior officers were disgusted that lower ranking guards were prosecuted and jailed when the order for the mistreatment came directly from the White House.-------
April 1, 2006
Apparently, the U.S. military's policy prohibiting gays from serving does not extend to George W. Bush's senior White House staff.
Well-placed White House insiders report that newly-appointed White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten <<another homosexual Neocon, "surprise surprise">> would be ineligible from serving in the military under its current policy.
Considering Bush's "base," this could be much more problematic for Bush than Walter Jenkins was for President Lyndon Johnson.
The revelations about Johnson aide Jenkins in 1964 had no effect on that year's election. Johnson won in a landslide over Barry Goldwater, who refused to make Jenkins an issue.
However, with polls showing the Republicans losing the Congress to the Democrats this year, any fracture in Bush's Christian conservative base could have disastrous electoral consequences for the GOP. Some polls are showing Virginia's George Allen, Arizona's Jon Kyl, and Mississippi's Trent Lott in potential trouble. The GOP Christian fundie base is important in all three states. If they stay home in large numbers, these three seats could very well switch to the Democrats.
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DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
Local Case Sparks Review Of Agents' Pasts
By HOWARD ALTMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tampa Tribune, Jan 25, 2006
A former inspector general with Homeland Security says the Tampa case reveals flaws in the department's background-check procedures.
Homeland Security ordered the review last month after receiving a letter from the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican. Grassley was seeking more information about Frank Figueroa, the former head of the Tampa office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who was arrested in October and accused of exposing himself in front of a teenage girl at an Orlando mall.
Before coming to Tampa, Figueroa headed Operation Predator - created to find and deport non-citizens who committed sex crimes against children.
Grassley asked for the investigation because his office had information that Figueroa was arrested on similar charges in the past.
Grassley asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to confirm the information and explain how Figueroa could "attain such a senior position at ICE and what has been done to ensure that a similar mistake will not recur in the future."
Homeland Security responded in writing Dec. 5, through Pamela J. Turner, assistant secretary for legislative affairs. Turner said Figueroa had been arrested "for similar behavior" in Amherst, N.Y., in 1977.
The case was dismissed, Turner wrote, "in the interest of justice because the perpetrator was never identified."
At the time, Figueroa was an inspector with the Buffalo, N.Y., customs office.
Because of the earlier arrest, Turner wrote, ICE has initiated a review of all background investigations of employees who work on Operation Predator. She did not say whether a prior arrest would preclude work with the unit.
In Washington, ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback said the agency has placed Figueroa on administrative leave and launched an internal investigation.
"In addition," Zuieback said, "ICE has put measures in place to ensure that employees working on child exploitation cases are suitable for this highly specialized and sensitive assignment and is reviewing the background investigations of all those assigned to child exploitation cases."
Figueroa was arrested Oct. 25 at the Mall at Millenia in Orlando and charged with exposure of sexual organs and disorderly conduct - both misdemeanors - after a 16-year-old girl told security officers that he began masturbating in front of her.
Figueroa has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing in Orlando next month. Figueroa's attorney, Brian Phillips, said the earlier arrest in New York should have no bearing on the current case or Figueroa's career.
"That was 28 years ago," Phillips said. "People are wrongfully arrested from time to time. He somehow managed to pass an entire federal background check and remain in service for almost 30 years."
A former inspector general for homeland security, Clark Kent Ervin, said the decision to review the ICE background checks indicates the initial review process wasn't thorough enough.
"The department has had a big problem with less-than-thorough background investigations," Ervin said, "as we found during my time as inspector general with respect to both air marshals and airport screeners. So, this comes as no surprise."
Asked whether Figueroa should have been allowed to lead Operation Predator, Ervin was blunt.
"Certainly no," he said.
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Washington Post, September 20, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901570.html
FBI joining Bush administration's War on Porn
Early last month, the bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a July 29 Electronic Communication from FBI headquarters to all 56 field offices, describing the initiative as "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and, by extension, of "the Director." That would be FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III.
The new squad will divert eight agents, a supervisor and assorted support staff to gather evidence against "manufacturers and purveyors" of pornography -- not the kind exploiting children, but the kind that depicts, and is marketed to, consenting adults.
"I guess this means we've won the war on terror," said one exasperated FBI agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity because poking fun at headquarters is not regarded as career-enhancing. "We must not need any more resources for espionage."
Among friends and trusted colleagues, an experienced national security analyst said, "it's a running joke for us."
"The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's top priority remains fighting the war on terrorism," said Justice Department press secretary Brian Roehrkasse. "However, it is not our ONLY priority. In fact, Congress has directed the department to focus on other priorities, such as obscenity" ...
Federal obscenity prosecutions, which have been out of style since Attorney General Edwin Meese III in the Reagan administration made pornography a signature issue in the 1980s, do "encounter many legal issues, including First Amendment claims," the FBI headquarters memo noted.
... Gonzales endorses the rationale of predecessor Meese: that adult pornography is a threat to families and children. Christian conservatives, long skeptical of Gonzales, greeted the pornography initiative with what the Family Research Council called "a growing sense of confidence in our new attorney general."
Congress began funding the obscenity initiative in fiscal 2005 and specified that the FBI must devote 10 agents to adult pornography.
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