By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rick Santorum, who has marketed himself as the conservative Republican candidate who can defeat the liberal Barack Obama, is complaining the Obama Justice Department isn’t doing enough to crackdown on pornography. The Christian Post reports that Santorum had said on his campaign website that President Obama favored pornographers over children. On…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some conservative politicians — mostly Republicans but some Dems — are beating their chest over pornography. The politicians including Sen. Orin Hatch (R-Utah) signed a letter earlier this month that was sent to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. complaining about the Justice Department shuttering its Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. The unit…
John Stagliano/facebook photo By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In courtroom 18 in the sterile D.C. federal courthouse, Justice Department prosecutors earlier this month tried nailing a major producer of adult pornography on obscenity charges. The lawyers, part of the department’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, spent four days presenting their case against California…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A D.C. federal judge, saying he hoped “the government will learn a lesson from its experience”, dismissed a major obscenity case against a major porn producer, John A. Stagliano, aka “Buttman”, the Washington Post reported. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon dismissed the case before the Calif.-based Stagliano of Evil…
It’s hard to believe in 1972 the FBI had nothing better to do. Then again, this must have been a coveted assignment. By MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press MIAMI — Newly released FBI files show agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated “Deep Throat” — the 1972 porn movie, not…
