Is The Obscenity Task Force A Failure?

[tickler]

Well you could add this to this other thread, but I thought it might point out some other workings in the DOJ/FBI.
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/showthread.php?t=39004

According to the emails, Ward saw the failure as traceable to both the USAs in the field and to the FBI, both of which, he claimed, were refusing to follow the investigation and prosecution strategies developed in Washington.
http://avn.com/index_cache.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=285968

[Bill]

wow, that's pretty crazy reading.

Cearly the white house wanted a bunch of big media show arrests for obscenity on cases the US Attorneys knew wouldn't stand up in court.

Which would make the US Attorney's look like shit in the following months, as the case unraveled.

I'll bet there were secret offers of tenured judgeships to the few attorneys that went along with the plan. (like what happened with the investigation of Tom Delay - the attorney in charge was given a judgeship after he apparently ordered his staff to drop the investigation into DeLays wifes involvement with a lobbying comapny used by Abramson to funnel funds.)

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Nice ending paragraph:

"You get the sense of Brent Ward being alone in the wilderness and recognizing it," commented First Amendment attorney Jeffrey Douglas. "The US Attorneys aren't helping; the FBI isn't. Even if I were not some sort of hardcore extremist, I think a fair reading of these emails makes it clear that nobody gives a rat's ass about it, and that's inspiring. It's positively inspiring."