Gonzales: No Backing Down on Obscenity
By: Chip Baker
Posted: 1:20 pm PDT 9-29-2005
WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recently said that law enforcement must learn to out-smart criminals bent on using the Internet to perpetrate crime, including obscenity.
After the announcement that the FBI had begun forming an anti-obscenity task force to crack down on illegal porn operations, some media reports indicated that some FBI agents were not thrilled with the move.
Gonzales countered that by explaining the reasoning behind FBI involvement and referring to a long history of Congress pushing for prosecution of obscenity cases.
"They've made the decision that dollars should be spent to fight obscenity," Gonzales told the Miami Herald. "When they appropriate money in order for the department to fight crime, we have an obligation to do that. And that's what we're doing here.
"People get the idea that somehow the department with all of its talent can't do more than one thing at a time. In fact, we can fight the war on terror, and at the same time, we can go after corruption, we can go after corporate fraud, we can go after drugs, we can go after violent gun crimes and we can go after obscenity."
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